Product Lead, Developer Platform at Tavus (S21)
$160K - $250K  •  
Building the human layer of AI
San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
3+ years
About Tavus

At Tavus, we're building the human layer of AI. Our mission is to make human-AI interaction as natural as face-to-face interaction, enabling the human touch where it has been previously unscalable. We achieve this through pioneering research in multi-modal AI models for human perception and understanding, combined with state-of-the-art human avatar rendering and communication models. Our models power everything from text-to-video AI avatars to real-time conversational video experiences across industries like healthcare, recruiting, sales, education, and more. By enabling AI to see, hear, and communicate with human-like authenticity, we're creating the foundation for the next generation of AI employees, assistants, and companions.

We're a Series A company backed by top investors, including Sequoia, Y Combinator, and Scale VC. Join us in driving the future of human-AI interaction.

About the role

About Tavus

At Tavus, we're building the human layer of AI, enabling natural, face-to-face human-AI interaction. Our pioneering multi-modal AI models for human perception and state-of-the-art human avatar rendering power realistic conversational video experiences across healthcare, recruiting, sales, education, and more. Backed by top investors including Sequoia, Y Combinator, and Scale VC, we're creating the foundation for the next generation of AI employees, assistants, and companions.

Role Overview

As our first Product Management hire focusing on Developer Platform, you will own the strategy and execution for growing our developer community, starting with optimizing our self-serve funnel. This is a hands-on, product builder role designed for a technical candidate comfortable writing highly technical documentation, interfacing with developers, and performing their own analysis or lightweight engineering. You'll be instrumental in increasing adoption, driving usage, and converting developers from free sign-ups to paid Growth and Enterprise plans. This high-impact role offers a significant growth trajectory, enabling you to shape the developer experience and play a key role in the future growth of our product organization.

Responsibilities

  • Developer Experience: Design and enhance our developer onboarding, documentation, API experience, and self-serve conversion points. You will be the product owner of our Developer Portal at platform.tavus.io
  • Growth Strategy: Develop and execute strategies to increase developer signups, activations, and conversions through our self-serve funnel
  • Strategic Roadmap: Develop, articulate, and execute a strategic roadmap focused on developer acquisition, retention, and upsell opportunities.
  • Data-Informed Decision Making: Utilize analytics, user research, and experimentation to inform product decisions, measure success, and iterate effectively.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to align on product goals, messaging, go-to-market strategies, and customer success initiatives.

Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of product management experience with demonstrated success in growth, developer platforms, or self-serve SaaS/API-driven products.
  • Technical background (Computer Science degree or equivalent engineering experience)
  • Deep technical acumen, comfortable interacting closely with engineering teams and developers.
  • Strong empathy for developers and understanding of their workflows, challenges, and needs.
  • Proven ability to leverage analytics, experimentation, and user research to drive impactful product decisions.
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate product strategy, vision, and technical details to diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in AI-focused products or platforms, particularly around generative AI or video technologies.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with demonstrated ability to operate effectively in early-stage, high-growth startups.

Previous experience or active participation in developer advocacy or developer relations roles.

Benefits

When you join Tavus, you’re joining a diverse and supportive team. Our work is driven by our people, and our success is shared by all. This position has a flexible work schedule, unlimited PTO, extremely competitive healthcare and gear stipends, as well as, of course, plenty of fun! At the end of the day, we want Tavus to be a place for you to learn, directly drive impact, and be with a team you love.

_To learn more about our team culture, and benefits, check out _our hiring page!

Tavus is growing fast, and we’d like you to grow with us!  Are you excited to get your hands dirty and join the human-AI revolution? Drop your resume and we’ll be in touch!

We are not looking for cultural fits, we are looking for culture creators. In fact, diversity is what drives our success – it’s at the core of how we hire, communicate, and work. We are inclusive to all and combine our diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and thinking to build the best experiences for our clients.

Technology

Python for our ML stack React/NodeJS for our customer platform

We're exploring new boundaries in voice synthesis, deep-tech and audio engineering.

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