Product Manager, Research

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
232K-290K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Lead the Research product roadmap for Decagon's conversational AI platform. Define model requirements, partner with engineering and infra to build training, evaluation, and experimentation systems, engage customers and external partners, and drive end-to-end initiatives from discovery through launch and adoption.
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About Decagon

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.

Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.

We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.

We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.

About the Team

The Product Management team owns Decagon’s platform and foundational features, including agent building, eval, analytics, integrations, enterprise controls, and research. We work across every customer segment, partnering closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market to ensure our platform is robust, scalable, and easy to use.

As one of our founding PMs, you’ll help define the product foundation that every Decagon customer uses to build and run their AI agents. You’ll own initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and scoping to launch and adoption, shaping the product experience for some of the world’s most influential businesses.

About the Role

Decagon’s Research team is at the frontier of AI agent development, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with model training, agent architecture, and evaluation systems. We enable best-in-class conversational experience for our customers at enterprise scale, across a wide range of channels, languages, and use cases.

As the Research PM, you’ll drive the research roadmap, marrying cutting-edge technology with key customer problems. You’ll build systems and processes to let the team move fast while maintaining high operational rigor. You’ll work across internal and external partners to ensure Decagon’s AI capabilities continue to lead the market.

In this role, you will

  • Define the strategy and roadmap for Decagon’s Research team. This includes model training, evaluation, experimentation, and more

  • Work closely with customers to deeply understand their problems and requirements

  • Translate these into clear model requirements, then partner with engineering to bring them to life

  • Interface tightly with Engineering, Infrastructure, Agent PM, and GTM teams

  • Manage relationships with key external partners

Your background looks something like this

  • Have 5+ years of relevant experience (e.g., product manager, founder, engineer, researcher etc.)

  • Experience developing AI/ML models, particularly in a research environment

  • Strong technical acumen — comfortable discussing model architecture, training data, and eval pipelines

  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills

  • Proven track record of shipping impactful features in fast-paced environments

Even better

  • A Computer Science, Engineering, or Math degree or equivalent technical experience

  • Experience working at a startup or high-growth company

  • Experience working on an enterprise B2B product

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits

  • Take what you need vacation policy

  • Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best

Compensation

$232K – $290K + Offers Equity

Top Skills

Agent Building
Ai/Ml
Analytics
Conversational Ai
Evaluation Pipelines
Experimentation
Infrastructure
Integrations
Model Architecture
Model Training
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
49 Employees

What We Do

Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.

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