About the Role
Rec is seeking a Product Manager to lead the AI strategy end-to-end. This role involves managing the AI engineering pod, defining the roadmap, prioritization, prompt engineering, and evaluation. The goal is to ensure AI teammates are reliable, trustworthy, and useful to recreation staff.
Responsibilities
- Own the AI product roadmap, from high-level strategy to day-to-day prioritization
- Lead and partner closely with Rec's AI engineering pod
- Drive prompt engineering and evaluation work to improve agent quality and reliability
- Define and evolve the framework for how AI agents behave, escalate, and earn staff trust
- Partner cross-functionally with design, engineering, and GTM to ship AI features that solve real recreation workflows
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally including AI/ML-powered products
- Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, evals, or working directly with LLMs in production
- Strong technical fluency, comfortable in the details with engineers, not just at the roadmap level
- A track record of shipping and iterating on AI features based on real usage and quality signals
- Excellent judgment on when AI should act autonomously vs. escalate to a human
- Bias toward action and comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment
Skills
- AI/ML-powered products
- Prompt engineering
- LLMs in production
- Technical fluency
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- In-office (most days)
- Startup environment
Experience Level
- 5+ years of product management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000–$200,000 base + meaningful equity
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Top-tier health/dental/vision
- 401(k) plan
About the Company
- Rec is using AI to reimagine how the world plays, participates in community, and gets active.
- The company operates at the intersection of a consumer product loved by everyday players and an enterprise platform trusted by recreation organizations.
- The team includes founders from Uber and leaders from Google, Microsoft, Strava, Hipcamp, and Airbnb.
- People join Rec to build AI that gets people back into the real world and to work with smart people.
