Are you passionate about building user-centric products that delight developers and drive real impact? If you thrive in a dynamic, highly technical environment and love collaborating across teams, we’d love to hear from you. As a Product Manager at RTI’s Sunnyvale office, you’ll help define and drive innovative solutions across AI initiatives, developer tools, and upcoming strategic projects. You'll work closely with engineering teams and end users to ensure our products deliver exceptional experiences and real value.
We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager with strong UX expertise to support key AI initiatives and our broader developer tools products. This role is perfect for someone who has worked on products for developers - such as Observability tools, infrastructure software, or APIs and has a passion for user research. You’ll champion the voice of the user, translate insights into actions, and help guide product decisions with a keen focus on usability and experience.
✨ What You’ll Do / Responsibilities:
As a Product Manager at RTI, you’ll play a critical role in shaping products that advance our company’s strategy and goals. In this role, you will:
- Lead user research efforts to deeply understand customer needs, pain points, and workflows.
- Translate user insights into clear, actionable product requirements.
- Partner with engineering teams to create intuitive solutions that delight customers.
- Apply design thinking principles to guide ideation, prototyping, and validation.
- Work with technical and business stakeholders to prioritize features and improvements that enhance user experience and deliver value quickly.
- Support Marketing and Sales to ensure product messaging is clear, compelling, and aligned with customer needs and company strategy.
🎯 What We’re Looking For / Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience in a B2B technical software, product, or program management role, with a focus on building developer tools, platforms, or ecosystems (e.g., middleware, infrastructure software, APIs, SDKs, or networking products).
- Hands-on software development experience or strong adjacent technical background.
- Strong understanding of developer workflows, technical audiences, and the unique challenges of building tools for developers.
- Demonstrates a proactive, growth-oriented mindset with excellent prioritization and time management skills.
- Brings an entrepreneurial, founder-like spirit — balancing big-picture strategic thinking with a bias for action and attention to detail.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At RTI, we are dedicated to building a fair and inclusive workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with all qualifications in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may be just the right candidate for this or another one of our open roles. Learn more about our commitment to our workforce, here!
💎 Nice To Have / Preferred Skills:
- Experience with AI/ML-related products or platforms.
- Experience in human-centered design or UX strategy.
- Experience working on early-stage initiatives or 0-to-1 product development.
🌟 What We Offer You:
- Flexible Work: Hybrid office schedule (2 days a week in office) + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Health, dental, flexible PTO, and an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation.
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards.
- We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed.
💙 How is life at RTI:
- We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for seven consecutive years both in Spain and the US. In addition, we were listed as one of the Best Companies for Women to Advance.
- We live and work by our core values, which emphasize excellence, teamwork, and reaching your potential. Our motto is “Enjoy the journey,” above all we must enjoy what we do and have fun at work. At RTI, you will work in a positive, supportive, diverse environment with a team that truly cares about you.
- We are defined by our “Working as One” culture and truly care about team’s interaction. That is why we plan trips for teams to get together in person, enjoy fun team-building activities and events, and feel more connected.
🌍 What We Do / About RTI:
RTI is the software framework company for physical AI systems, with a mission to run a smarter world. RTI Connext® provides the data architecture for over 2,000 designs in Aerospace and Defense, Medtech, Automotive, and Robotics – running in more than $1T of total deployed systems worldwide. Only RTI combines decades of technical expertise with industry-leading software and tools to develop smarter systems, faster. Learn more at www.rti.com.
RTI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
The compensation range for this role is $140k - $170k a year in Sunnyvale, California. The salary range displayed on this job posting reflects a minimum and maximum target. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that this range reflects the base salary target range only, and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits.
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