Staff Product Manager

About This Opportunity

The Staff Product Manager is Orion's most senior individual contributor track in product. This is a player-coach role: a Staff PM raises the bar through their own craft—shipping the hardest problems themselves, modeling AI-native product development, and actively mentoring a small group of peer PMs—without carrying direct reports. Staff PMs sit directly under a GM, signaling that builders have a first-class path to the most senior levels of product leadership.

Location: It is anticipated that an incumbent in this role will work as a Hybrid employee, with three (3) or more days each week required on-site at one of the listed office locations. Candidates should be located within a commutable distance to an office. Internal candidates currently aligned to an Orion office location may be given preference; however, internal candidates with varying work arrangements may be considered based on experience and business needs. Work location is subject to change based on business needs.

Player-Coach Responsibilities (no Direct Reports)

• Mentor 3–6 peer PMs through weekly 1:1s, PRD reviews, shadowing on discovery calls, and pair-shipping on hard problems
• Raise the team's AI fluency: teach AI-native workflows, maintain the pillar's prompt and agent library, review AI-generated artifacts for quality
• Own the hiring bar for the pillar's PM hires; lead technical interview loops and make hire/no-hire calls alongside the GM
• Unblock peers and make the call on hard tradeoffs
• Model operating norms (documentation, async comms, meeting hygiene) that keep the team flat and fast

Qualifications

• A proven track record of shipping successful products at senior IC level
• A deep, demonstrable AI fluency and has built features powered by LLMs, ships prototypes in modern AI coding tools, understands eval frameworks, cost tradeoffs, and agent architectures
• Strong technical instincts; reads code, writes SQL, works fluently with APIs, holds substantive conversations with senior engineers
• World-class written communication; writes the clearest PRD in the room
• Mastery of discovery craft; customer interviews, competitive teardowns, data analysis, synthesis
• Evidence of raising the bar for teammates (mentorship outcomes, artifacts adopted as team standards, successful hires championed)
• Comfort with ambiguity and a strong bias to ship
• A minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years in product management or product engineering, with clear evidence of increasing scope and complexity
• At least one tour in a heavily AI-forward or technically deep product role

Skills

• Agile Scrum
• Development
• AI Concepts
• Client-Centric
• Effective Communication
• Innovation
• Large Language Model (LLM) Fine-Tuning
• Product Management
• Project Management
• Technical Proficiency
• Time Management
• User Experience (UX)
• Work Collaboratively

Pay

The pay listed in this posting indicates the estimated pay at the time of this posting; however, may vary depending on geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, Orion offers a competitive benefits package which includes health, dental, vision, and disability coverage on day one, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid parental leave, pet benefits including pawternity leave and pet insurance, student loan repayment and more.