Role intelligence
Senior Product Manager — AI Commerce
- Hiring manager
- Taylor Morgan
- Recruiting partner
- Dana Whitfield
- Department
- Product
- Location
- San Francisco · Hybrid (2 days/week)
- Compensation band
- $185,000 – $225,000 + equity
- Hiring status
- Final decisions
Business problem this role solves
Meridian's merchants abandon 38% of AI-assisted checkout setups before launch. This role owns turning our AI commerce assistant from a promising beta into a product merchants trust with revenue.
First 90-day success expectations
- Days 1–30: Meet 15+ merchants, audit the beta funnel, align on success metrics
- Days 31–60: Ship a prioritized roadmap and one measurable onboarding experiment
- Days 61–90: Lead the GA readiness review with engineering, design and GTM
What great looks like
Evaluation scale: 1 No evidence · 2 Limited evidence · 3 Clear evidence · 4 Strong evidence
Product judgment
Chooses the right problems and makes sound tradeoffs with incomplete information.
Observable evidence: Explains a past prioritization call, the alternatives considered, and what they'd change.
Interview owner: Taylor Morgan, Morgan Chen, Casey Williams
Cross-functional leadership
Aligns engineering, design and GTM without formal authority.
Observable evidence: Describes resolving a real disagreement and how the team moved forward.
Interview owner: Jamie Park, Morgan Chen
Technical AI/ML fluency
Understands model capabilities, limits and evaluation well enough to make product calls.
Observable evidence: Can reason about precision/recall tradeoffs and failure modes in a product context.
Interview owner: Jamie Park
Execution and experimentation
Owns delivery end-to-end and designs experiments that change decisions.
Observable evidence: Walks through a launch they drove, including slips, recovery and measured outcomes.
Interview owner: Unassigned
Strategic communication
Writes and speaks with clarity for different audiences.
Observable evidence: Summarizes a complex decision crisply; adapts depth for executives vs. engineers.
Interview owner: Taylor Morgan