Associate Product Manager

Fireworks AI · Data AI · San Mateo, CA · Product

Associate Product Manager role at Fireworks AI, a Series C company focused on generative AI infrastructure. The role involves working on the frontier of AI infrastructure, building tools for developers and AI teams. Responsibilities include acting as a technical advisor to customers, partnering with engineering teams to define and ship product features, and engaging with customers to identify use cases. The role is designed for early-career candidates with a technical background and curiosity about AI/LLMs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, helping shape their GenAI strategy using Fireworks infrastructure.
  2. Partner with engineering, design, and data science teams to define, build, and ship product features across the Fireworks platform — from API tooling to model fine-tuning workflows to inference infrastructure
  3. Engage directly with customers from fast-moving startups to large enterprises, to identify use cases and convert interest into long-term usage and expansion
  4. Partner with GTM functions like sales and marketing to evangelize new products to customers and throughout the Fireworks org

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
  • Less than 2 years of professional experience
  • Curiosity about AI, LLMs, and developer tooling
  • Clear written and verbal communication
  • Strong analytical skills and user empathy
  • Deep hunger and motivation
  • Comfortability with ambiguity and energized by fast-moving environments

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure: inference serving, fine-tuning pipelines, embeddings, or agent frameworks.
  • Prior internship or project experience in product management, software engineering, or data science.
  • Familiarity with developer-focused products and an understanding of what makes a great API or SDK experience.

What the JD emphasized

  • Less than 2 years of professional experience
  • Curiosity about AI, LLMs, and developer tooling
  • Deep hunger and motivation
  • Comfortability with ambiguity and energized by fast-moving environments

Other signals

  • building the future of generative AI infrastructure
  • highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference
  • driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models
  • APMs at Fireworks will receive mentorship from experienced PMs while also getting rotations across both Fireworks’ product areas and tasks (platform product, forward-deployment and strategic projects)