Product Manager, Applied Research

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy for translating Luma's frontier research capabilities into shippable features across Canvas, Agents, and the model platform
• Work directly within the research team to shape priorities, ensuring model development and evaluation are informed by real enterprise needs in marketing, advertising, and entertainment
• Establish and operate the feedback loops between research, product, go-to-market, and forward-deployed teams
• Interpret evaluation results and research findings to identify which emerging capabilities have the highest product and commercial leverage
• Build prototypes yourself to validate product ideas before committing engineering resources — using the models directly to test hypotheses
• Define the product implications of research advances in multimodal understanding, generation, tool use, and agent capabilities
• Partner with the Agent PM and Enterprise PM to ensure research priorities align with enterprise product needs
• Drive the cadence and process for research-to-product handoffs

Requirements

• Principal or Staff-level product management experience (L6 seniority or above) with a track record of bridging pure research and ambitious product development at an AI lab or applied AI company
• Comfortable in a research environment — can read evaluations, understand what they mean, ask the right questions, and help researchers see the product implications of their work
• Experience shipping products that originated in research — taken emergent capabilities and turned them into new product surfaces
• Technical depth to build prototypes yourself — work directly with models, write prompts, test hypotheses, and validate ideas before involving a full engineering team
• High agency and strong self-starter mentality — research environments are inherently ambiguous
• General manager mindset — evaluate research directions for technical novelty, commercial viability, and customer impact
• Mix of large-company and earlier-stage experience — understand both the pace of a research lab and the urgency of a startup
• Ability to influence without authority

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience as a Research PM, Applied Research PM, or Labs PM at a frontier AI company (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Cohere, Mistral)
• Background in multimodal AI — understand opportunities and challenges of models that work across vision, language, and generation
• Python and SQL proficiency
• Experience defining evaluation frameworks and quality bars for shipping research capabilities into production products
• Founder-type experience or background
• Domain exposure in marketing, advertising, entertainment, or related verticals