Product Manager in AI team

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Analytical Techniques, English Proficiency, SQL, UX design

Job Description

What do we do?

Photomath is a fast-growing EdTech company whose mobile app is the #1 app in the world to learn math. Powered by advanced machine learning technology, the app instantly scans, accurately solves, and intuitively explains printed and handwritten math problems to users through step-by-step explanations.

With over 270 million downloads globally, Photomath is the most popular mobile application from Croatia and one of the most popular educational apps of all times. Since its launch in 2014, our award-winning app has topped App Store & Google Play Store education charts and Apple has recently declared it the application of the day.

Today, we employ almost 100 people and have offices in Zagreb and Silicon Valley. We are a team of people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and skills, united by passion for technology and innovation. We believe that math is an increasingly crucial skill, particularly as problem-solving and quantitative analysis become prerequisites for many occupations.

As the Product Manager in our AI team, you will be responsible for empowering our AI team with product perspective and help us make sure that we are working on the right things at the right time. You will understand what our capabilities and our constraints are taking into account the current state of the art in the AI domain and other factors that determine how our research results can come to life in Photomath's products. You will translate product needs and goals to our machine learning engineers and other way around. You will make sure that incentives of all cross functional teams are aligned and in line with the company and product strategy. You will also help us create and maintain our R&D roadmaps.

We are constantly expanding what Photomath can do and the types and quality of our content - we have so much more ahead of us and we need your help to get there. Join us in our mission to revolutionize learning math and help students across the globe gain math superpowers!

Our dev stack:

• Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kotlin, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, BigQuery, Redis, Elastic Search, C++.

What will you do

• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to develop and evangelize our AI strategy
• Brainstorm and prioritize new model development opportunities based upon our AI product strategy and impact potential
• Making sure that AI team is working on the right problems
• Define and facilitate development of experiences in our products that collect data for consumption by AI team (our “data loop”)
• Define and facilitate development of AI models into Photomath’s mobile app and content creation tools
• Manage and analyze impact of in-product AI model roll-out
• Analyzing failure cases of the model and collecting feedback from customers
• Facilitate communication between the AI team and relevant stakeholders
• Translating requirements from other teams into new model development projects for our AI engineers
• Evangelize models the team is developing
• Explaining nuance of how the models behave
• Continuously propose improvements of team's processes and practices
• Demonstrate growth mindset, self-reflection and provide feedback to other team members, peers and managers
• Mentoring other colleagues and proactive knowledge sharing 

Our ideal candidate has:

• Understanding of the purpose of aforementioned technologies in our Tech stack
• Enthusiasm about new technologies and capabilities to learn new skills quickly
• Good logical/analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills with internal and external stakeholders - willing to listen, understand, and share
• Positive and proactive attitude towards work and growth mindset
• Ability to work independently and/or jointly with other people
• Flexibility to work in diverse environments (in office or remotely, across different business locations, occasional flexible work hours)
• Excellent English language skills (speaking and writing)
• 3+ years as a AI product manager or similar role, preferably in AI domain
• Familiar with common AI models, how their performance is measured, and their application in software products
• Familiarity with high-level structure of data pipelines for model training and deployment
• Familiarity with common mobile application system architecture, especially as it relates to data
• Experienced in aligning cross-functional leaders on product strategy and prioritization
• Keen sense for cutting complexity when designing user-facing UX
• Skilled with data analysis and SQL
• Has an urge to challenge the status-quo and inspire others

An additional plus is if you have:

• Strong experience in product management in the AI domain
• Technical background
• Software Engineering or even better Machine Learning hands-on experience

Salary range:  

• 21.500 - 28.000 kn gross, depending on candidate's experience 
• Stock options

What we offer:

• An opportunity to work on innovative AI projects with global impact in close collaboration with the team of top AI engineers
• An opportunity to work on the preparation of large datasets used to train cutting edge Machine Learning models
• An opportunity to define and implement our data infrastructure at scale
• An opportunity to make an impact and define processes and way of working in the newly established fast growing team
• Flexible working hours and work from home arrangements
• Dedication to a healthy work-life balance and various benefits for parents
• A diverse environment with agile and talented individuals across the career spectrum - to teach and be taught
• A friendly, collaboration-heavy team atmosphere
• A culture that recognizes and rewards dedication and success
• Dedicated person (mentor/buddy) to help you navigate your first weeks in a new role
• Learning and growth opportunities through knowledge sharing, education and conferences, individual development plan with a dedicated budget, weekly time devoted to learning new things
• Cutting edge hardware and equipment, budget for additional equipment
• Company events and celebrations, company retreat, team budget for team building activities
• Birthday and holiday presents for employees and their kids
• Generous vacation and paid leave policy, sick leave without a doctor's note, annual physical exam (check-up)
• Multisport card for various discounts at sport facilities
• Underground bicycle parking garage
• Modern office design, great view :) and great location (Zagreb, Strojarska 20)