Staff Product Manager, AI & Developer Experience

About the Role

AI is changing how data practitioners write, debug, and ship dbt code. As Staff Product Manager for Developer Experience, you will set the strategy for how that change plays out in dbt.

You will own the vision, roadmap, and outcomes for the end-to-end developer workflow: the Studio IDE, Developer Agent (our AI coding assistant inside dbt Wizard), the Cloud CLI, and the dbt VS Code Extension. These surfaces are the daily home of tens of thousands of data practitioners, from seasoned analytics engineers to newer practitioners who rely on AI to move faster with confidence.

This is a Staff-level role with broad scope and direct influence on company direction. You will be the key partner to the Fusion team, the engine behind dbt’s next-generation compilation and intelligence. You will decide how Fusion’s capabilities become differentiated developer experiences, and you will make sure developer needs shape the Fusion roadmap. The feedback loop between Developer Experience and Fusion is central to how dbt Cloud evolves, and you will be its architect.

We are looking for someone who is both strategic and hands-on: a leader who can define where AI-native developer tooling is going, and who is deeply passionate about AI agents and what it takes to build them well.

In This Role, You Will

Set strategy and own the roadmap

• Define and own the multi-year vision and roadmap for developer experience across Studio IDE, Developer Agent, Cloud CLI, and the VS Code Extension, and translate it into clear priorities, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Align developer experience investments with company strategy, product-led growth goals, and the Fusion platform direction. Set success metrics and hold yourself accountable for the outcomes.
• Make high-stakes bets on where to invest, what to build, and what not to build, using market insight, customer evidence, and technical judgment.

Lead AI agent product development

• Define what a best-in-class AI coding agent looks like for the full range of dbt users. This includes agentic workflows, multi-step task execution, context management, natural language interaction, and guided experiences that meet users where they are.
• Shape principles for trust, transparency, control, and evaluation in agentic experiences, so users can rely on the agent for real work.
• Track the fast-moving AI development landscape (Copilot, Cursor, Devin, and beyond) and turn it into a differentiated point of view, not just feature parity.

Drive cross-functional execution and influence

• Partner with the Fusion team to co-define the boundary between platform and product, agree on API contracts, and keep roadmaps coordinated.
• Lead engineering, design, and GTM teams through a predictable shipping cadence, and keep teams aligned on what matters and why.
• Influence senior leadership and stakeholders across the company with crisp strategy docs, compelling demos, and clear framing of complex tradeoffs.
• Mentor other PMs and raise the bar for product craft, rigor, and technical depth across the organization.

Stay close to users and the market

• Build tight feedback loops with the dbt community and enterprise customers, with particular attention to power users and technical practitioners.
• Use user research and competitive analysis to ground strategy in evidence and bring a sharp external perspective into planning.

What Success Looks Like

• A clear, widely understood developer experience strategy that engineering, design, and leadership are aligned behind.
• Developer Agent is recognized as a differentiated, well-regarded AI coding product for data practitioners, not just a feature.
• Developer satisfaction and engagement (activation, session depth, feature adoption)
• The Fusion partnership runs on shared roadmap visibility, clear contracts, and coordinated launches.
• The Cloud CLI is a first-class product that developers actively choose.

You’re a Good Fit If You Have

• 8+ years of product management experience, including a track record of owning strategy and roadmap for developer platforms at scale.
• Direct experience owning developer environment products, with an informed point of view on what makes development tools excellent and where modern IDEs fall short.
• Hands-on experience with AI agents. You have built, shipped, or led agentic features (multi-step LLM workflows, tool use, context management, evaluation), and you are passionate about the space. You use AI coding assistants daily and have strong, well-reasoned opinions about what works and what doesn’t.
• A history of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing without authority, including across platform and product team boundaries.
• A strong technical foundation: you can reason about system architecture, engage deeply with engineers, and contribute to technical decisions.
• Experience turning user research and developer feedback into prioritized, well-scoped product work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, from crisp specs to executive-level narratives.
• Comfort working asynchronously on a distributed, remote team.

You’ll Have an Edge If You Have

• Experience building or shipping AI agent products at the frontier, such as agentic UX, evaluation frameworks, or agent orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with dbt or similar SQL-first transformation frameworks.
• Familiarity with LSP, tree-sitter, or other IDE infrastructure primitives.
• Experience with CLI tooling and developer workflow automation.
• Background in open source or strong engagement with developer communities.
• Knowledge of modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift) and the analytics engineering ecosystem.