Principal AI Product Manager
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Key details
Why this role is notable
Zoom is positioning its AI services as a developer platform, selling speech recognition, voice AI, and agentic capabilities as building blocks for third-party applications rather than only as features inside its own video product.
Job Description
What You Can Expect
As a Principal AI Product Manager at Zoom AI Services, you will own meaningful product outcomes at the intersection of AI innovation, platform strategy, and developer experience, shaping how developers and enterprises build intelligent applications. This role demands hands-on craft across product strategy, experience design, rapid prototyping, and execution, with the autonomy to define new AI-native product development patterns from first principles. You will work alongside a fast-moving, highly collaborative team, partnering with engineering, AI research, design, and go-to-market teams to build developer tools that move from concept to customer adoption with speed and quality. This is a hybrid position that requires on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week at our Seattle, WA or San Jose, CA office. Remote arrangements are not available for this role.
About the Team
Zoom AI Services is building the next generation of AI capabilities and developer experiences, enabling developers and enterprises to create intelligent applications and agents through state-of-the-art speech recognition, decision intelligence, voice AI, and agentic capabilities. Our mission is to make powerful AI accessible, intuitive, and production-ready, helping developers move from their first API call to real-world applications quickly. We are a highly collaborative team operating at the intersection of AI innovation, platform engineering, product strategy, and developer experience, united by a commitment to curiosity, craft, and rapid experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Zoom AI Services experiences, from developer onboarding and API discovery to production adoption.
- Identify differentiation opportunities through AI-native interaction patterns and product-led growth, translating emerging AI capabilities and developer needs into products with measurable customer and business impact.
- Lead end-to-end experience design from concept and interaction models to production-ready designs, applying UX, visual design, and systems thinking to simplify complex AI and developer workflows.
- Prototype, test, and iterate rapidly using Figma, AI-assisted coding, and modern development tools, maintaining a high bar for usability, visual quality, and consistency.
- Leverage AI as a daily creative and execution partner for research, ideation, prototyping, and experimentation, exploring new interaction models for AI agents, multimodal experiences, and developer tools.
- Partner with engineering, AI researchers, design, developer relations, and go-to-market teams to bring products from ambiguous opportunity to successful launch.
- Own success metrics across developer activation, time to first value, adoption, retention, and customer satisfaction, making thoughtful trade-offs between customer value, technical feasibility, and speed.
- Shape product direction across teams through strong judgment, clear communication, and demonstrated results, operating as a hands-on individual contributor rather than through organizational authority.
What We're Looking For
- Significant experience leading complex, high-impact technology products, with a proven track record of taking ambiguous opportunities from strategy to successful launch.
- Strong professional foundation in UX and product design, demonstrated through a portfolio of shipped products with outstanding interaction and visual design quality.
- Hands-on experience using generative AI, AI coding assistants, and rapid prototyping tools to accelerate product discovery, design, and development.
- Ability to work closely with engineers, understand APIs and platform capabilities, and translate sophisticated technology into intuitive customer experiences.
- Experience building developer platforms, APIs, enterprise SaaS, AI products, or similarly complex technical experiences.
- Comfort making decisions, building prototypes, and shipping in fast-moving environments with evolving priorities and minimal overhead.
- Demonstrated ability to shape strategy and raise the quality bar across teams while thriving as a hands-on individual contributor.
Salary Range or On Target Earnings:
In addition to the base salary and/or OTE listed Zoom has a Total Direct Compensation philosophy that takes into consideration; base salary, bonus and equity value.
Note: Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience.
We also have a location based compensation structure; there may be a different range for candidates in this and other locations
At Zoom, we offer a window of at least 5 days for you to apply because we believe in giving you every opportunity. Below is the potential closing date, just in case you want to mark it on your calendar. We look forward to receiving your application!
Anticipated Position Close Date:
Ways of Working
Our structured hybrid approach is centered around our offices and remote work environments. The work style of each role, Hybrid, Remote, or In-Person is indicated in the job description/posting.
Benefits
As part of our award-winning workplace culture and commitment to delivering happiness, our benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways. Click Learn for more information.
About Us
Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out to build the best collaboration platform for the enterprise, and today help people communicate better with products like Zoom Contact Center, Zoom Phone, Zoom Events, Zoom Apps, Zoom Rooms, and Zoom Webinars.
We’re problem-solvers, working at a fast pace to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment.
Our Commitment
At Zoom, we believe great work happens when people feel supported and empowered. We’re committed to fair hiring practices that ensure every candidate is evaluated based on skills, experience, and potential. If you require an accommodation during the hiring process, let us know—we’re here to support you at every step.
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