Honeycomb.io is hiring a Staff Product Manager to define the AI product strategy for our AI team, with a focus on our AI-powered investigation tool, Canvas, and broader AI integration across our product portfolio. This is a research-oriented role where you will synthesize AI trends, customer needs, and technical capabilities into strategic recommendations that serve our vision.
What You'll Do
- Define AI product strategy in service of Honeycomb's vision.
- Synthesize AI trends, customer needs, and technical capabilities into clear strategic recommendations.
- Help the product organization understand where AI creates genuine customer value versus where it's hype.
- Identify emerging observability challenges created by AI adoption, such as LLM drift, prompt regression, or low-context generated code.
- Make informed bets about which AI technologies and approaches warrant investment.
- Conduct research that bridges technology and customer reality.
- Build a deep understanding of how customers adopt AI in their engineering workflows.
- Identify patterns across customer conversations that signal future market needs.
- Stay current with AI/ML developments and translate their implications for observability.
- Engage with technical communities, researchers, and early adopters to spot trends.
- Enable AI innovation across the product portfolio by partnering with product teams to identify high-value opportunities.
- Provide guidance on AI approaches, trade-offs, and best practices without centralizing all decisions.
- Help teams understand how their work fits into our broader AI strategy and how to leverage shared capabilities.
- Synthesize cross-portfolio learnings and socialize what's working and what isn't.
- Articulate Honeycomb's point of view on AI observability both internally and externally.
- Help customers understand how their observability needs evolve as they adopt AI.
- Contribute to thought leadership through writing, speaking, and community engagement.
- Build credibility with technical audiences who care deeply about how we use AI.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years in product management.
- At least 1+ year shipping AI/ML-powered products.
- Track record of taking AI features from concept to customer impact.
- Deep understanding of how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate AI systems.
- Familiarity with current AI/ML techniques and the judgment to know when they're applicable.
- Ability to synthesize disparate signals into coherent strategy.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and making decisions without perfect information.
- Strong pattern recognition across customer conversations.
- Strong judgment about when to say no or not yet.
- Enough technical depth to earn respect from engineers and architects.
- Genuine curiosity paired with humility about what you don't know.
- Ability to evaluate trade-offs between different AI approaches.
- Understanding of observability principles and why they matter in production systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
- Comfort presenting to customers, executives, and technical audiences.
- Collaborative mindset that elevates others' work.
- Demonstrated ability to stay current in fast-moving domains.
- Intellectual humility and excitement about the intersection of AI technology and real customer problems.
- Energized rather than exhausted by the pace of change in AI.
Team & Environment
You'll work with our AI team and collaborate with product managers across our portfolio, our product design team, engineering leadership, and customer-facing teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $304,300 - $345,800 CAD.
- Generous equity with employee-friendly stock program.
- Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical.
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend.
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents.
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood.
- Annual development allowance.
Work Mode
This is a remote-first position open to candidates in Canada.
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