Product Manager, Model APIs

Overview

Product Manager for Sarvam’s Model APIs, owning how developers and enterprises consume the models while feeding learnings back into what gets trained next.

What you'll do

• Own the product surface for model APIs across speech, language, and multimodal, including specs, versioning, documentation, developer experience, and deprecation.
• Shape model roadmaps with research leads using evidence from usage, evals, and customer signals.
• Define quality criteria per model line and set targets for accuracy, latency, cost per call, robustness, and key failure modes.
• Own evaluation as a product, including benchmark suites, offline/online tests, human evals, and reporting.
• Translate customer and developer feedback into model and API requirements and communicate what changed and why.
• Partner with infra and platform teams on rollout, capacity, monitoring, and reliability in production.
• Drive end-to-end release planning, including positioning, launch, and migration paths.

What you'll need

• 3+ years building AI/ML products, developer platforms, or APIs (where the underlying model informed product decisions).
• Working fluency across the model lifecycle: data, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Strong analytical instincts and comfort working with data.
• Sound judgment on trade-offs between quality, latency, and cost.
• Ability to work closely with researchers and earn their trust.

Nice to have

• Experience with speech (ASR, TTS) or LLM APIs and related metrics (WER, CER, MOS, TTFT, tokens per second).
• Track record shipping and maintaining a public or enterprise-facing API.
• Hands-on with SQL, Python, or ML tooling for analysis.
• Exposure to Indian language AI, multilingual systems, or evaluation for low-resource languages.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.