Senior / Staff Product Manager - Ray Data
Anyscale · On-site
MeritLog read this listing from Anyscale's Ashby job board and last checked it on September 12, 2026.
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Job details
- Work model
- On-site
- Salary
- $210K - $240K
- Location
- San Francisco
- Company website
- www.anyscale.com
Hiring context
How this role compares at Anyscale
Anyscale has 20 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 4 job families, and 7 of them are in data & analytics. 17 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 85%.
This role's posted range of $210K - $240K sits above 63% of the 16 other Anyscale roles quoted over the same currency and period.
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What the role asks for
What you'd do
- Drive the Ray Data product roadmap - Balance open source Ray Data feature development with Anyscale Runtime commercial differentiation to ensure that both Ray Data becomes the open source standard for AI data processing and Anyscale Runtime remains sufficiently compelling.
- Drive open source Ray Data adoption - Focus on community growth, developer experience, and ecosystem integrations
- Market Positioning & Enablement - Work closely with Product Marketing on strategic market positioning, field enablement, and competitive analysis to maintain differentiation.
- Customer engagement - Drive key customer engagements assisting sales and field engineering teams.
What they're asking for
- 4+ years of product management experience with technical productsExperience
- Strong technical background in distributed systems, ML infrastructure, or data processingSkill
- Experience working with developer and enterprise audiencesSkill
- Strategic thinking with ability to balance competing priorities and stakeholder needsSkill
- Located in or willing to relocate to the Bay AreaSkill
- Prior experience with open source products and commercial monetization strategiesSkillPreferred
- Background in ML tooling, data infrastructure, or developer toolsSkillPreferred
Parsed by MeritLog from the employer’s own posting. The full description follows below.
Job description
ABOUT THE ROLE Anyscale is seeking a Senior / Staff Product Manager to lead Ray Data, our scalable data processing library for ML and AI workloads. This is a uniquely challenging role that requires balancing open source growth with commercial differentiation - driving rapid adoption in the open source Ray Data ecosystem while building compelling proprietary features for Anyscale RunTime, our high-performance commercial engine. You'll own the entire Ray Data product roadmap in a competitive landscape, working closely with the engineering team, the field team, enterprise customers, and the open source community. Success requires: - Deeply ingraining yourself into the end-user experience to understand the nature of the product and its gaps and tradeoffs - Working closely with customers and open source users to draw the subtle line between growth and commercialization - Strategic thinking about which parts of the ML/Data lifecycle to focus on, identifying opportunities where our architectural strengths create the most value. - Thinking deeply about and clearly articulating the product strategy to stakeholders KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Drive the Ray Data product roadmap - Balance open source Ray Data feature development with Anyscale Runtime commercial differentiation to ensure that both Ray Data becomes the open source standard for AI data processing and Anyscale Runtime remains sufficiently compelling. - Drive open source Ray Data adoption - Focus on community growth, developer experience, and ecosystem integrations - Market Positioning & Enablement - Work closely with Product Marketing on strategic market positioning, field enablement, and competitive analysis to maintain differentiation. - Customer engagement - Drive key customer engagements assisting sales and field engineering teams. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - 4+ years of product management experience with technical products - Strong technical background in distributed systems, ML infrastructure, or data processing - Experience working with developer and enterprise audiences - Strategic thinking with ability to balance competing priorities and stakeholder needs - Located in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Prior experience with open source products and commercial monetization strategies - Background in ML tooling, data infrastructure, or developer tools ABOUT RAY DATA Ray Data is a scalable data processing library built on Ray Core that provides flexible and performant APIs for distributed data processing. It enables offline batch inference and data preprocessing for ML training, scaling data processing to large clusters while maintaining ease of use for developers. WHY ANYSCALE - We're on a mission to make scalable computing effortless. Ray is the AI Compute Engine at the center of some of the world's most powerful AI platforms - Our tech is in production at companies like OpenAI, Uber, Spotify, Instacart, and Cruise - We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Addition, with $250M+ raised to date - Recent partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud are putting AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments - Competitive salary and equity, plus health/dental/vision coverage (many plans up to 99% employer-covered) - We offer flexible time off, paid parental leave, and mental health support Anyscale Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. Anyscale Inc. is an E-Verify company and you may review the Notice of E-Verify Participation https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kt2S6_k_SjxaEdGowH4rngVdg2ApAQV3/view?usp=sharing and the Right to Work posters in English and Spanish https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K3Nz72xgsU2hngnVUEu53wEeZjbAMbnZ/view?usp=sharing
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