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Together, you'll align on shared infrastructure priorities and capacity requirements while driving the success of the LLM offering.\nExplore our LLM inference platform: https://runware.ai/llm-api\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn the LLM inference product strategy and roadmap. Define priorities across model availability, API capabilities, production readiness, and customer adoption, balancing developer needs, technical feasibility, business impact, and unit economics.\nDrive customer discovery and product-market fit. Work directly with developers, AI teams, and technical decision-makers to understand production workloads, evaluate competing solutions, identify adoption barriers, and translate market insights into product decisions.\nOwn the model catalog and lifecycle. Guide model discovery, evaluation, launches, and deprecations across open-weight, proprietary, and custom or fine-tuned models. Partner with Engineering and Partnerships on model selection, serving, and routing decisions.\nShape the developer experience and API capabilities. Make it easy for customers to evaluate, integrate, migrate, and scale LLM workloads through API compatibility, SDKs, documentation, and capabilities such as streaming, tool calling, structured outputs, caching, and batch inference. Support compatibility with OpenAI Chat Completions and Anthropic Messages formats.\nDefine production inference requirements. Partner with Engineering on performance, reliability, and cost trade-offs, including latency, time to first token, throughput, concurrency, availability, and serving efficiency. Translate customer workloads into requirements for dedicated capacity, rate limits, routing, fallbacks, and observability.\nDrive adoption and commercial growth. Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships on product positioning, pricing, packaging, and technical evaluations. Support customer progression from self-service usage to sustained production workloads and dedicated inference commitments.\nTranslate enterprise needs into scalable product capabilities. Work with Engineering and Security to define requirements for data residency, retention controls, service commitments, and other production-critical capabilities.\nStay hands-on throughout product delivery. Write clear requirements, prototype solutions, test APIs, reproduce customer issues, and work closely with engineers to resolve technical constraints and deliver high-quality releases.\nOwn product performance and business outcomes. Track activation, production usage, retention, expansion, revenue, gross margin, and service quality. Use customer feedback and product data to continuously refine priorities and measure impact.\nRequirements\nProven product ownership in a technical, developer-facing environment. Experience leading API products, developer platforms, AI infrastructure, or similar technically complex offerings from strategy and development through launch, adoption, and commercial growth.\nStrong understanding of production LLM inference. Ability to evaluate model capabilities and serving trade-offs, including output quality, context length, token consumption, latency, throughput, reliability, and cost, and translate them into practical product decisions.\nDeep understanding of developer experience and API products. Familiarity with developer workflows from initial integration to production scale, including API design, compatibility, migration, SDKs, documentation, and differences in model capabilities.\nStrong commercial and product judgment. Ability to balance customer requirements, technical constraints, market opportunities, pricing considerations, and unit economics when setting product priorities.\nExperience working directly with technical customers. Proven ability to lead customer discovery, engage with developers and technical decision-makers, assess production use cases, and distinguish recurring market needs from isolated requests.\nHands-on technical aptitude. Comfortable testing APIs, exploring product behavior, analyzing usage data, building prototypes, and discussing implementation trade-offs with engineers.\nStrong execution and cross-functional leadership. 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