Senior AI Product Manager, Leaderboard

Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including frontier model training, enterprise adoption, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. Our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.

We’re looking for a Senior AI Product Manager to own and scale Scale’s SEAL Leaderboard portfolio. In this role, you will define the strategy, roadmap, and operational excellence of Scale’s evaluation products, benchmarks, and public/private leaderboards. You will work across AI Product Management, ML Researchers, Engineering, Operations, and Go-To-Market teams to transform cutting-edge model evaluations into trusted industry benchmarks that influence model development and purchasing decisions across the AI ecosystem.

You will serve as the product owner for leaderboard initiatives, driving benchmark innovation, governance, infrastructure, customer adoption, and business impact. You will work directly with leading AI labs and enterprise customers, representing Scale as a thought leader in AI evaluation and measurement.

The ideal candidate combines strong product judgment, technical fluency, operational rigor, and customer-facing experience, with a passion for turning emerging model capabilities into scalable evaluation products.

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Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is: $205,600—$257,000 USD

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• Own the roadmap and strategy for Scale’s SEAL Leaderboard portfolio, defining priorities across benchmark development, leaderboard launches, infrastructure investments, and product expansion.
• Facilitate the Leaderboard Steering Committee and drive alignment across AI-PM, ML, Engineering, Operations, and GTM stakeholders.
• Evaluate, prioritize, and operationalize new leaderboard proposals, ensuring alignment with customer demand, market opportunities, and company strategy.
• Define and manage the end-to-end leaderboard product lifecycle, from ideation and benchmark design to launch, growth, maintenance, and sunset decisions.
• Partner with ML researchers and domain experts to develop trustworthy evaluation methodologies, benchmark specifications, and leaderboard scoring frameworks.

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

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