Staff Product Manager
Staff Product Manager at Honeycomb.io owning the AI roadmap: leading the Canvas and Agentic AI teams that build natural-language investigation features (Skills, Auto-Investigations, MCP server) for its observability product. Needs 5+ years PM experience incl. shipping AI/ML products; fully remote within the US.
- Compensation
- $198.5K–$233.5K / yr
- Location
- Remote - United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years in product management with at least 1+ year shipping AI/ML-powered products
- Track record of taking AI features from concept to customer impact, including failures
- Deep understanding of how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate AI systems
- Familiarity with current AI/ML techniques and judgment on applicability vs. hype
- Ability to synthesize research, customer feedback, and technical trends into strategy
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and deciding without perfect information
- Pattern recognition across customer conversations
- Strong judgment about when to say "no" or "not yet"
- Technical depth sufficient to earn respect from engineers and architects
- Ability to evaluate AI trade-offs (RAG vs. fine-tuning, model selection)
- Understanding of observability principles in production systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication for varied audiences
- Ability to influence without authority across product, engineering, and GTM teams
- Comfort presenting to customers, executives, and technical audiences
- Collaborative mindset that elevates others' work
- Demonstrated ability to stay current in fast-moving AI domain
- Intellectual humility and learning orientation
Full description
What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
How We Work
We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote
Little more about the team:
You'll be the product manager for our Canvas and Agentic AI teams - the teams building Honeycomb's AI-powered investigation experience. Canvas lets engineers use natural language to query, visualize, and understand their production systems. We're pushing well past chat: we're building Skills (pre-configured workflows that encode domain expertise into repeatable, executable actions), Auto-Investigations (agent-driven investigations that kick off before a human gets paged), and a rearchitected Canvas that's both interactive and collaborative.
You'll work in a tight triad with engineering and design leads, owning the roadmap for how AI shows up in Honeycomb, from the product UI to our MCP server. You'll partner with our Director of AI Strategy, Research & Development teams, and our customer-facing teams to stay grounded in what customers actually need while pushing toward something meaningfully different from what exists today.
This is a role for someone who can hold both execution and ambiguity: shipping production features while navigating a product space where the right answers are still emerging.
What you’ll do in the role:Define AI product strategy in service of Honeycomb's vision
- Synthesize AI trends, customer needs, and technical capabilities into clear strategic recommendations
- Help the product organization understand where and how AI creates genuine customer value vs. where it's hype
- Identify emerging observability challenges created by AI adoption (e.g., LLM drift, prompt regression, low-context generated code)