Sr/Staff Product Manager, Research Products

Runway is hiring a Product Manager to turn research and model capabilities into AI products for creators. The role owns product strategy and execution across research, development, launch, pricing, and go-to-market, while connecting user needs with research, engineering, design, and business teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for your area, from early model development through launch, pricing, and go-to-market
• Partner with research to shape what gets built, translating customer needs and model capabilities into clear product requirements and priorities
• Work closely with engineering and design to ship new products and continuously improve existing ones, making sound technical tradeoffs along the way
• Define and analyze product metrics, run A/B tests, and use data (including your own SQL and Python analysis) to validate pain points and prioritize features
• Talk with users weekly to uncover use cases and turn feedback into product decisions
• Drive pricing and GTM strategy in partnership with business teams

Requirements:

• 4+ years of product management experience, including taking products from zero to one
• A strong technical foundation, typically demonstrated by things like the following:
• A degree in a technical or quantitative field such as computer science, HCI, math, statistics, or physics
• Professional experience writing code before the LLM codegen era (e.g., as a software engineer, data scientist, data analyst, or technical founder who built and bootstrapped a product)
• Hands-on fluency with SQL, Python, AI code generation tools, and version control best practices
• Working knowledge of current ML capabilities and products, and the ability to discuss tradeoffs with researchers and engineers
• Experience in fast-moving teams, with comfort operating amid ambiguity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with generative AI, creative tools, or media products
• Experience owning pricing or GTM for a product