Principal Product Manager, AI Gateway

Docker is hiring a Principal Product Manager, AI Gateway to shape secure, seamless access to AI models for developers and organizations using sandboxed AI agents. The role owns the gateway’s product direction and partners with engineering, design, customers, and inference providers to deliver developer workflows, enterprise governance, reliability, and cost-management capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Own product strategy and prioritization. Define the vision, roadmap, and success measures for the gateway, balancing developer adoption with enterprise requirements
• Understand developers and enterprise customers. Work directly with developers, AI teams, platform engineers, and security stakeholders to uncover needs, validate solutions, and guide investment
• Make secure onboarding simple. Improve the journey from launching a sandbox and authenticating to connecting an agent, selecting a model, and completing the first useful task
• Build a cohesive developer experience. Partner with engineering and design on APIs, CLI tools, administration experiences, documentation, and integrations with AI coding tools
• Shape model access and interoperability. Work directly with inference providers to evaluate model capabilities, plan integrations, and align on capacity, reliability, and pricing. Prioritize model discovery and compatibility so customers can adopt new models without unnecessary integration work
• Define enterprise safety and governance experiences. Translate requirements for identity, access management, credential protection, policy enforcement, and auditability into clear, usable capabilities
• Guide reliability and cost-management decisions. Define traffic balancing, routing, and fallback strategies across multiple inference providers, balancing model quality, latency, availability, and cost. Own inference cost-management priorities, including usage visibility, budgets, and spend optimization
• Drive execution and launches. Write focused product requirements, make explicit tradeoffs, and partner with customer-facing teams on positioning, onboarding, release readiness, and continuous learning

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product management experience, with experience building developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products
• Demonstrated success taking a product from concept to launch, including validating customer demand, defining the initial scope, and driving adoption after release
• Strong technical background, through software engineering experience or ownership of deeply technical products
• You can evaluate API designs, understand system architecture, and make informed tradeoffs with engineering
• Hands-on experience with AI tools and agent workflows, and an informed perspective on the challenges of giving agents secure access to models, tools, and data
• Strong product judgment and analytical skills, with examples of using customer research and product data to prioritize investments and measure results
• Excellent written communication and cross-functional leadership, with a track record of aligning engineering, design, and go-to-market teams around a clear strategy and delivering in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Docker does not offer visa sponsorship for this role