Product Manager, Growth

Lightning AI is the company reimagining the way AI is built. After creating and releasing PyTorch Lightning in 2019, Lightning AI was launched to reshape the development of artificial intelligence products for commercial and academic use.

We are on a mission to simplify AI development, making it accessible to everyone—from solo researchers to large enterprises. By removing the complexity of building and deploying AI tools, we empower innovators to focus on solving real-world problems. Our platform is built to scale with the latest AI advancements while staying intuitive and adaptable, so you can bring your ideas to life.

We have offices in New York City, San Francisco, and London and are backed by investors such as Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.

• Move Fast: We act with speed and precision, breaking down big challenges into achievable steps.

• Focus: We complete one goal at a time with care, collaborating as a team to deliver features with precision.

• Balance: Sustained performance comes from rest and recovery. We ensure a healthy work-life balance to keep you at your best.

• Craftsmanship: Innovation through excellence. Every detail matters, and we take pride in mastering our craft.

• Minimal: Simplicity drives our innovation. We eliminate complexity through discipline and focus on what truly matters.

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for a Product Manager focused on Growth who can drive Lightning’s self-serve adoption across thousands of new developers each week. This is a unique opportunity to blend consumer product thinking, growth experimentation, and deep empathy for technical users into a single role.

You’ll own the end-to-end journey of helping developers discover, try, and activate on Lightning AI. From optimizing sign-up flows and onboarding, to scaling A/B tests, to designing delightfully fast feedback loops you’ll work across product, engineering, design, and data to make Lightning feel magical from the first click.

You will be joining the Product Team and report to our CPO, Priya Shivakumar. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City or San Francisco office with in-office requirements of 2 days per week. The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $210,000. 

What You’ll Do

• Identify and execute growth levers across activation, retention, and referral
• Lead experiments across onboarding, sign-up flows, pricing pages, and messaging
• Deep empathy for technical users and an understanding of developer needs, docs, APIs, and integration pain points
• “Learning to see” so that you can design intuitive user flows and coach an engineering team to ship higher quality products faster and drive adoption that remains in line with our brand guidelines.
• Collaborate with design and engineering to rapidly test hypotheses
• Use data to uncover friction in the developer journey and remove it
• Partner with marketing and community teams to drive traffic, increase activation, and build viral loops via docs, tutorials, and forums 
• Track and move metrics like DAU/MAU, Time to value, Activation %, PQLs, and expansion revenue 
• Build with speed learning from failure, doubling down on what works

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of product management experience in high-growth, fast-paced environments, 2+ years in consumer/developer products with a trial to paid motion
• Bias for action and shipping, paired with the ability to think strategically
• Proven track record running A/B tests and using data to drive decisions
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable with product instrumentation, metrics, and dashboards
• A sincere curiosity for the AI/ML space that enable you to go deep into the technical subject matter in order to better understand our customers and their challenges 
• Excellent product judgment and a feel for what makes UX “click”
• Demonstrates a strong willingness to learn, adapt, and improve by actively seeking and applying feedback from peers, leaders, and customers. Able to adjust approaches based on constructive criticism to drive personal and team growth.
• Comfortable with technical concepts and able to work closely with engineering teams to define product specifications and address technical challenges. Direct experience with model training and inference is a plus.
• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Bonus: Experience with growth loops, referrals, pricing experiments, or viral acquisition

Benefits and Perks

We offer competitive base salaries and stock options with a 25% one year cliff and monthly vesting thereafter. For our international employees, we work with Velocity Global to pay you in your local currency and provide equitable benefits across the globe.

In the US, we offer:

• Medical, dental and vision
• Life and AD&D insurance 
• Flexible paid time off plus 1 week of winter closure
• Generous paid family leave benefits
• $500 monthly meal reimbursement, including groceries & food delivery services
• $500 one time home office stipend
• $1,000 annual learning & development stipend 
• 100% Citibike membership (NYC only)
• $45/month gym membership 
• Additional various medical and mental health services

At Lightning AI, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe that diverse teams drive innovation and create better products. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We are dedicated to building a culture where everyone can thrive and contribute to their fullest potential.