# Product Manager, Applied Research - Company: [Lumaai]() - Location: Redwood City, CA - Remote: Yes - Team: Product & Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $225K – $325K - Posted: July 24, 2026 ## Job description You'll own the bridge between Luma's frontier research and its products — Canvas, Agents, and the model platform — making sure what researchers build is shaped by what customers need, and what ships takes full advantage of what research makes possible. This is a principal-level PM role inside the research process, not downstream of it: you'll read papers, interpret evals, build prototypes yourself, and call which research directions have the most commercial leverage. It requires someone who can genuinely operate in a research environment and influence without authority. If you need a defined playbook or can't read an eval, this won't work. **What You'll Own** * Own the product strategy for turning Luma's frontier research into shippable features across Canvas, Agents, and the model platform. * Work inside the research team to shape priorities against real enterprise needs in marketing, advertising, and entertainment. * Establish and run the feedback loops between research, product, go-to-market, and forward-deployed teams. * Interpret evaluations and research findings to identify the highest-leverage capabilities and make bets accordingly. * Build prototypes yourself to validate ideas before committing engineering resources. * Translate "the model can now do X" into "customers can now solve Y," and own the research-to-product handoff and quality bar. **First 90 Days** *One way the first 90 could unfold.* * **Days 1–30 — Immerse & Diagnose:** Get inside the research, the evals, and the enterprise needs, and map where the highest-leverage capabilities are. * **Days 30–60 — Ship & Validate:** Stand up the research-to-product feedback loop and validate a prototype that proves commercial value. * **Days 60–90 — Scale & Systemize:** Define "ready to ship" and run the cadence that turns research breakthroughs into product. **What You Bring** * Principal or Staff-level PM experience bridging research and product at an AI lab or applied AI company. * Genuine comfort in a research environment: reading evals, understanding them, and asking the right questions. * A track record shipping products that originated in research, not just optimizing existing ones. * The technical depth to build prototypes yourself — work with models, write prompts, test hypotheses. * Very high agency and a general-manager mindset weighing technical novelty against commercial impact. * The ability to influence without authority. **Nice to Have** * Research PM, Applied Research PM, or Labs PM experience at a frontier AI company (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Cohere, Mistral). * Background in multimodal AI, and Python and SQL proficiency. * Experience defining evaluation frameworks and quality bars for shipping research into production. * Founder-type background, and domain exposure in marketing, advertising, or entertainment. *About Luma: Luma's mission is to build unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world. We believe multimodality is critical for intelligence — the next step beyond language models comes from vision. Luma is an equal opportunity employer.* ## Apply [Apply on Lumaai]() Canonical job page: