Principal Product Manager, Pinecone
Database
$240-300k
Offers equity
The vector database to build knowledgeable AI
Open for applications
The vector database to build knowledgeable AI
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$240-300k
Offers equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
Pinecone's mission it to make AI knowledgeable.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is passionate about understanding developer needs of building AI applications in a highly dynamic and evolving AI landscape
- 7+ years experience in product management of technical products with at least 3 years working on highly technical SaaS or cloud infrastructure products
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
- Strong empirical, data-driven approach to deployment and decision-making
Desirable
- Demonstrated success in an unstructured environment
- A passion for databases and/or search
- Experience in a customer-facing role
- Experience building cloud software infrastructure
What the job involves
- As a Product Manager on the database team, you will work closely with the Product and Engineering teams at Pinecone to define the next generation of vector database capabilities
- You will drive the strategy and roadmap for core database capabilities to make transformative improvements to performance, scalability, efficiency, and search quality
- Your role is to deeply empathize with AI developers and to define database requirements that meet their needs, and to work with engineering to build and ship these capabilities
- You will bring a sense of ownership, accountability, and entrepreneurship to your objective of driving database adoption
- Spearhead the development of core database capabilities from concept through launch, ensuring high quality execution and alignment with the company’s strategic vision
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to ensure high quality execution, cohesive product messaging, and effective go-to-market strategies
- Collect user feedback to inform product strategy and identify new opportunities for innovation
- Define and prioritize product requirements based on target user personas and market research
- Forecast timelines and communicate product strategy and deliverables to company leadership
Our take
Vector databases arrived on the scene only a few years ago, but the technology has already helped power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Vector databases quickly became popular in the world of machine learning and AI and they will continue to play a significant role in the future development of AI technologies.
Pinecone is a vector database company that specializes in providing an efficient and scalable solution for high-performance vector search applications. The platform is designed to allow businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage machine learning applications without the hassle of infrastructures.
Pinecone has continued to build out its platform to meet the growing demands of enterprise-scale AI workloads. And most recently, the company introduced Dedicated Read Nodes (DRNs), a high-performance deployment option designed for latency-sensitive, high-throughput use cases such as billion-vector semantic search, real-time recommendation systems, and user-facing AI assistants. By offering isolated, provisioned capacity with predictable performance and costs, DRNs address a key challenge for production AI systems that require consistent low latency under heavy load.
Alongside this, Pinecone has strengthened its partnership with Microsoft, leveraging Azure's global infrastructure, security, and go-to-market ecosystem to support large-scale, production-grade AI applications. These developments signal a shift from early experimentation toward mature, mission-critical deployments, positioning Pinecones as a core piece of enterprise AI infrastructure rather than just an emerging vector database provider.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
96% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$28m
SERIES A
Total funding: $138m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: Medical, dental and vision plans, paid parental leave, and mental health resources offer holistic well-being coverage for you and your family.
- Compensation and Financial Benefits: Pinecone offers competitive base salary and equity compensation, opportunity to build a savings and investment portfolio, and resources to protect your family from the unexpected.
- Other Benefits: Pinecone is a hybrid in-office/remote workforce that offers Flexible PTO and WFH Equipment Stipend. Employees also enjoy attending our annual company retreat and occasional team offsites.
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Edo Liberty
(Founder & Chief Scientist)Edo was previously a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. Before that, he worked in Research at Amazon SageMaker/AI Labs and at Yahoo! as a Research Scientist and Director.
Ash Ashutosh
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinecone in 2025, Ash worked at Google in Products and as a Global Director of Solution Sales. He also previously founded Actifio where he served as the CEO and President for over 11 years.
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