product
Posted Jul 15, 2025Forward Deployed Product Manager
at fireworks
On-site
Responsibilities
- - Lead onboarding and implementation efforts, including fine-tuning workflows, latency benchmarks, API integration, and infrastructure alignment.
- CUSTOMER JOURNEY - Engage directly with customers from fast-moving startups to large enterprises, to identify use cases and convert interest into long-term usage and expansion - Define and propose tailored solutions and proof-of-concepts (POCs) that demonstrate the value of Fireworks’ platform in real customer environments.
Requirements
- ABOUT US: At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure.
- We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models.
- We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.
- In the last few months alone we launched Fireworks Training, partnered with Microsoft Azure Foundry, and published research straight from our production systems.
- (blog https://fireworks.ai/blog/frontier-rl-is-cheaper-than-you-think) - Open source agents with frontier advisors: matching frontier performance through training and harness engineering.
- (blog https://fireworks.ai/blog/open-source-agents-frontier-advisors) - The fine-tuning bottleneck is not the algorithm: integration friction and iteration speed are what actually stall teams; we documented the patterns across dozens of customer engagements.
- (blog) https://fireworks.ai/blog/fine-tuning-bottlenecks THE ROLE: The ideal Forward Deployed Product Manager (FDPM) candidate is a customer obsessed AI product manager who thrives on our customers’ successful outcomes.
- FIREWORKS PRODUCT ROADMAP - Translate customer insights into structured product definition, identifying common themes and high-leverage feature requests. - Collaborate closely with engineering and applied ML teams to align customer needs with technical roadmap - Drive execution of product development, ensuring that new products land successfully with customers - Oversee Fireworks roadmap, ensuring that reflects customer needs MINIMUM
- REQUIREMENTS: - Strong technical background (CS/EECE background and/or production level development experience) or technical product management
- experience in products for software engineers (hiring at multiple levels for this role) - Strong customer interaction skills, deep customer success focus - Ability to communicate highly technical concepts to all kinds of audiences including the latest AI developments - Focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones - Ability to navigate complex customer/technical scenarios and come up with creative solutions PREFERRED
- experience in technical product management roles with high degree of customer interactions - Interest in generative AI or developer tools - Early startup or founding
- experience - Prior technical leadership / technical PM experience WHY FIREWORKS AI?
- - Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
- - Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
- - Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
- Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer.
Experience
- experience - Intimate familiarity with LLMs, fine-tuning, model inference, agents etc. - 2 - 5+ years of
Additional details
- Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry.
- A few examples of what that looks like in practice: - Frontier RL is cheaper than the mega-cluster narrative suggests: we ran cross-region rollouts using 98% sparse weight deltas and published what we learned.
- You will spend most of your time talking to customers and connecting their technical
- requirements to the Fireworks product offerings. FDPMs ensure our customers’ success by building and delivering solutions that meet their needs. They translate customer feedback into internal product
- requirements for scalable products that land with customers. KEY
- - Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, helping shape their GenAI strategy using Fireworks infrastructure.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.