Senior Product Manager - Ray Data

About the RoleAnyscale is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead Ray Data, our scalable data processing library for ML and AI workloads.This is a uniquely challenging role that requires balancing open source growth with commercial differentiation - driving rapid adoption in the open source Ray Data ecosystem while building compelling proprietary features for RayTurbo Data, our high-performance commercial engine.You'll own the entire Ray Data product roadmap in a competitive landscape, working closely with the engineering team, the field team, enterprise customers, and the open source community. Success requires:Deeply ingraining yourself into the end-user experience to understand the nature of the product and its gaps and tradeoffsWorking closely with customers and open source users to draw the subtle line between growth and commercializationStrategic thinking about which parts of the ML/Data lifecycle to focus on, identifying opportunities where our architectural strengths create the most value.Thinking deeply about and clearly articulating the product strategy to stakeholdersKey ResponsibilitiesDrive the Ray Data product roadmap - Balance open source Ray Data feature development with RayTurbo Data commercial differentiation to ensure that both Ray Data becomes the open source standard for AI data processing and RayTurbo remains sufficiently compelling.Drive open source Ray Data adoption - Focus on community growth, developer experience, and ecosystem integrationsMarket Positioning & Enablement - Work closely with Product Marketing on strategic market positioning, field enablement, and competitive analysis to maintain differentiation.Customer engagement - Drive key customer engagements assisting sales and field engineering teams.Required Qualifications3+ years of product management experience with technical productsStrong technical background in distributed systems, ML infrastructure, or data processingExperience working with developer and enterprise audiencesStrategic thinking with ability to balance competing priorities and stakeholder needsLocated in or willing to relocate to the Bay AreaPreferred QualificationsPrior experience with open source products and commercial monetization strategiesBackground in ML tooling, data infrastructure, or developer toolsAbout Ray DataRay Data is a scalable data processing library built on Ray Core that provides flexible and performant APIs for distributed data processing. It enables offline batch inference and data preprocessing for ML training, scaling data processing to large clusters while maintaining ease of use for developers. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-21