Senior Product Manager II

About Slang AI

Slang AI is redefining customer engagement through conversational AI, making every interaction seamless and efficient. Our mission is to transform the restaurant industry by providing the ultimate voice AI solution for consistently outstanding customer experiences.

At Slang AI, we believe how we build matters just as much as what we build. We foster a culture rooted in hospitality, ownership, and clarity, where every “Slangsta” feels valued, supported, and connected to the broader impact of our work in the AI-powered future of restaurants.

How We Use AI in Hiring

Slang AI uses AI tools to help review applications, and a person makes every hiring decision. No one is rejected by AI alone: a member of our team reviews your actual application before any decision. To learn more about how we use AI, to ask for a person to review your application without an AI step, or to request an accommodation, let your recruiter know.

Using AI During Your Application

You’re welcome to use AI tools to prepare, for example to polish your résumé or practice interview questions. During live interviews and assessments, please don’t use AI tools to generate your answers unless we say it’s allowed. To make sure we’re speaking with you, we’ll ask you to have your camera on for at least one live interview. If you can’t use a camera, let us know and we’ll find another way.

Equal Opportunity at Slang

Slang AI is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, age, disability, pregnancy, marital or partnership status, caregiver status, genetic information, military or veteran status, height, weight, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the NYC Fair Chance Act and applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, let your recruiter know.

What Your Experience Will Be

You’ll join Slang’s Product team owning multiple product areas, or a single area with company-critical scale. Your work will help restaurants operate with AI-driven efficiency and deliver better customer service through natural conversation, directly affecting thousands of restaurant interactions every day.

In a given month, you might be scoping a voice AI conversation-quality problem, rethinking an onboarding flow, untangling a billing edge case, or making the case for a platform investment that unblocks two other teams’ roadmaps. You’re expected to work full stack as a product leader, comfortable running ambiguous 0-to-1 discovery one week and well-scoped execution the next, moving between a customer discovery call and a technical trade-off conversation with engineering.

You’ll report to the Head of Product. This role doesn’t have formal reports, but you’ll regularly coordinate work across other PMs on cross-area initiatives, and you’ll be expected to weigh in on how the broader team runs discovery and prioritization. The role includes key ceremonies such as daily standups, biweekly cycle planning, and weekly product leadership meetings. Engineering and design will look to you for judgment calls with little day-to-day oversight; leadership will look to you to turn what’s happening in the product into decisions they can act on.

Day to day, you’re running customer and prospect calls, using AI tools for research and prototyping, collaborating with design and engineering, and communicating across Slang. The role is hybrid, based in our NYC HQ three days a week, with occasional travel for company offsites.

Why You Belong Here and How You Will Grow

Slang’s product culture is data-driven. Data of all kinds informs our product decisions: market research, usage and performance analytics, usability testing, RICE scoring, and more. To do your job well, you’ll have access to Slang’s suite of data, and you’ll be empowered to dig deep.

We’re also AI Native, so using AI tools to research, prototype, and deliver is expected. Slang has a culture of open sharing and experimentation, so you’ll be learning alongside your teammates in the rapidly changing AI space.

Growth here is concrete. You’ll have the option to build toward people management, since strong performance at this level is the track most PM managers at Slang came up through. Day to day, that growth looks like mentoring other PMs on discovery and prioritization craft, and helping shape team-wide rituals like roadmap reviews and planning cadence.

What Success Looks Like

You will:

• Own the requirements and outcomes for multiple product areas (or one company-critical area) with minimal oversight, hitting committed company-level milestones across them
• Contribute to roadmap planning with data- and prototype-driven recommendations
• Shape how the broader PM team approaches discovery and prioritization, and help shape team-wide rituals like roadmap reviews and planning cadence
• Coordinate cross-area initiatives with other PMs, resolving competing priorities without needing to escalate every trade-off
• Communicate roadmap trade-offs and risk directly to the Head of Product and other executives in language they can act on
• Collaborate directly with designers and tech leads to develop and document the requirements, design, and technical plans required for launch
• Demonstrably raise the bar for PM craft on the team, not just for your own output

What You Will Bring

Required:

• 6+ years of product management experience, with a track record of owning and shipping across varied product surfaces, not just AI features
• Demonstrated ability to work “full stack”: comfortable moving between 0-to-1 discovery, technical trade-off conversations, and polished execution
• Experience navigating ambiguity and making prioritization calls with little oversight, including calls that require coordinating across other PMs’ areas
• Strong written and verbal communication, including comfort presenting trade-offs and risk to executive stakeholders
• Active, hands-on use of AI tools in your daily workflow: not passive awareness, but a demonstrated habit of using AI to move faster and think better
• A track record of helping other PMs get better, even without formal authority (mentoring, pairing, or giving feedback on specs or prioritization)

Preferred:

• Prior experience managing or leading other PMs, even informally
• Experience in voice, conversational AI, or another complex, technically dense product domain

How Work Affects My Life

This role offers real scope and a good amount of ambiguity to manage on your own.

• Hybrid work: three days a week in our NYC office, with pay set at our NYC rate
• Competitive salary and equity package reflecting your experience and scope
• Comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance
• Professional development support, including a track toward people management if you want it
• Direct exposure to company-level strategy and executive decision-making, earlier than most PM roles offer

Doing this job well will change how you think about product work: you’ll stop treating “AI PM” and “generalist PM” as different skill sets, and start treating judgment and prioritization craft as the thing that transfers across whatever you’re handed.

Compensation & Location

Compensation for this role is benchmarked against local market data for the employee’s primary work location. Total compensation includes a mix of cash and equity. The base salary range for this role is $189,000 to $211,000. Final pay depends on skills, experience, and location.

• Work Location: NYC HQ, hybrid (3 days a week in office)
• Base Compensation: $189,000 – $211,000
• Equity: Included in offer package

Our Vision

Calling a business shouldn’t feel like a robot-hostage situation, where you’re forced to listen to horrible music and can’t reach a human, while enduring a soulless voice uttering “I’m sorry, I didn’t quite get that” on repeat for eternity. (Shudder.) That’s why we started Slang AI. We use the latest AI and audio wizardry to make transacting via voice so enjoyable it’s more human than human. By 2030, we will save businesses and consumers 1 billion minutes of precious time while transforming voice channels into the preferred mode of communication (it’s faster and easier than text).

We have backgrounds building product at companies like Spotify, BuzzFeed, the New York Times, and OpenTable, shipping experiences that have reached hundreds of millions of users. Now, we’re using our backgrounds to build a culture that puts product and human-centered design above all else while fostering constant learning and growth. Sound like something you’d like to be part of? Get on board.

Our Values

• AI Native. We don’t just sell AI. We are AI.
• Overachiever Fever. We’re overachievers (we don’t know any other way).
• Humility Ability. We approach each other with curiosity and openness (know-it-alls not welcome!).
• Be a Good Host. We build for hospitality. We should embody it.