1000+ Best product research Jobs in Clifton, New Jersey (September 2026)

Head of Program Design

18 days ago

Newark

Job Description:\n\nJob Title: Head of Program Design\nTeam: Product\nLocation: Hybrid in Atlanta (GA) - preferred, Chicago (IL), New York (NYC), or Newark (NJ)\nEmployment Type: Full-time\nFLSA Classification: Exempt \nStart Date: ASAP\nAbout Braven\nBraven is a national nonprofit that prepares promising college students to secure a strong first opportunity after college graduation through a career-accelerating program.\nWe work with higher education and employer partners to offer a life-changing experience that begins with a semester-long course for college students, followed by support that lasts through graduation. \nTogether, our ambition is to help rebuild the middle class and revitalize the American Dream.\nTo learn more, take a look at Braven’s Jobs Report.\nAbout the Role\nIn order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000–100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Head of Program Design who will own the evolution, quality, and integrity of every program experience Braven puts in front of students, volunteers, and staff, serving as both the lead builder and the person responsible for setting the standards for how those experiences are designed.\nBraven's program is built around a core belief: that students build career readiness by developing the right skills, networks, experiences, and confidence. Everything the Design team builds is in service of that equation. As the leader of the Design team and a member of the Product Leadership Team, you will translate evidence from Braven's research and real-time signals from the field into high-quality, pedagogically sound program assets and learning sequences that can be delivered across dozens of campuses with varying academic lengths (e.g., semester, quarter, summer school, etc.) at scale. \nYou hold the line on adult learning best practices regardless of timeline pressure or competing priorities, and you ensure that every staff member and volunteer who facilitates a Braven program experience understands both what they're teaching and why it's built the way it is. We're also looking for someone with a genuinely entrepreneurial orientation, someone who is deeply curious about how other organizations are solving the college-to-career challenge, and who brings that curiosity back into how Braven evolves its own approach. Critically, this person must be able to hold two things as connected rather than in tension: the commitment to human-centered, pedagogically excellent design and the imperative to simplify and scale. The program has to work for the student sitting in front of it and for the institution delivering it at volume. Seeing those as the same challenge — not competing ones — is a prerequisite for excellence in this role.\nThis role is on the Product team and reports directly to the Chief Product Officer.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild, Steward, and Evolve Braven's Program Experience (30%)\n\n Design and evolve the entire program experience continuum, which starts with the Accelerator course and extends to supporting our Fellows for 6 months after graduation.\n Maintain a growing high-quality multi-modal library (in-person, virtual, and on-demand) of program experiences, including workshops, learning modules, facilitated sequences, stand-alone resources, on-demand tools, and event designs that help students build the skills, networks, experiences, and confidence needed to secure strong first opportunities after college.\n Create and pilot new program assets in response to what program staff is observing in the field and/or our higher education partners lift up as a need/interest — when teams flag that students are struggling or that a specific need has emerged, your team builds the response, keeping scale and simplicity front and center.\n Translate findings from Braven's research team into concrete design decisions, ensuring that what the evidence says students need is actually reflected in how every experience is structured, sequenced, and facilitated, partnering with execution teams to ensure the program is delivered as intended\n Maintain and refresh program assets over time by updating content regularly based on stakeholder feedback, student outcome data, and shifts in the college-to-career landscape, including staying up to speed on how the context is shifting with students (e.g., pandemic moment that required more online to a digital learning fatigue moment six years after the pandemic) and/or the labor market (e.g., employers are scaling up dramatically so job acquisition is easier including remote work to labor market is shrinking because of over hiring and now how AI is shaping the realities students face in the job market)\n Keep an eye towards what must be true at scale, adjusting designs over time based on feasibility constraints or new technology realities that have ripple effects into designs.\n Be the consummate learner and consumer of our in-person and digital products, in order to stay proximate to the field as well as on the cutting edge of what is to come\n\nSet and Hold the Standard for Quality and Integrity of Program Experiences (25%)\n\n Define, ensure the execution of, and evolve Braven's standards for high-quality program design, including how experiences are structured, how long they run, how learning is assessed, and how facilitation is approached.\n Ensure all program experiences are grounded in adult learning science, cultural competence (including that of a particular higher education institution), and reflect a deep understanding of Braven's students, predominantly first-generation college students and students from low-income backgrounds, navigating the transition from college to career.\n Stay current on the external field — career readiness research, employer expectations, evolving best practices in adult learning, highly-resourced colleges' career preparation evolutions, digital tools, and bring that knowledge into Braven's design work.\n\nPrepare Staff and Volunteers to Facilitate with Confidence and Fidelity (20%)\n\n Design and deliver ongoing training that equips program staff and volunteers who are on the front lines with students every day to understand Braven’s approach to career readiness topics, and can deliver to students coherent, consistent guidance.\n Design and deliver training on design intent so that facilitators understand why an experience is built the way it is, and can make good judgment calls when they need to adapt in the moment.\n Ensure training and staff enablement are built into each new program from the start, making them a core part of a complete, high-quality experience.\n Lead conversations with staff about what is likely to come next in the programmatic experience's evolution.\n\nLead the Team and Shape Program Strategy (25%)\n\n Lead, develop, and grow a team of designers who are responsible for the full scope of design work across Braven's program experience, from the Accelerator course to post-course support for Fellows, which lasts until six months post graduation.\n Manage the team as well as the team’s mental agility in a way that allows for business as usual, as well as the ability to flex, be nimble, and start to innovate in a manner that meets the moment.\n Serve as a member of Braven's Product Leadership Team, contributing design expertise to cross-functional decisions about what the program should do next, how it should evolve, and what it will take to deliver it at scale.\n Partner with colleagues across Research, Data, Program Delivery, and Operations to ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence, informed by what's happening in the field, and set up to be delivered well.\n Engage directly, including online and ground-based visits with the field to inform perspective.\n Bring a constant eye toward program simplification while regularly asking which design elements are truly essential for student outcomes, where the program has accumulated complexity that doesn't drive value, and how to redesign experiences that are both excellent and more scalable over time.\n Partner across the organization with program delivery teams, operations, and technology to identify where design changes could unlock scale, and help Braven distill the program architecture toward what it truly needs to be as it grows.\n Help scope and grow the Design team as the organization scales toward serving 25,000+ Fellows.\n Serve as a member of the "One Braven" leadership team, contributing to org-wide strategy and stewarding a healthy, high-performing culture for both your immediate team and the broader organization.\n Other duties as assigned.\n\nRequirementsMinimum Requirements\n\n Education: BS/BA\n 10+ years of experience designing clear, engaging, purposeful, and culturally competent learning experiences\n 3+ years of experience managing a team toward outcomes\n\nPreferred Qualifications \n\n Master's degree or other certification in learning design, instructional design, or a related field\n Expert practitioner in human-centered design and adult learning science, with a strong point of view on what makes a learning experience work for adults, especially adults navigating high-stakes career moments\n Demonstrated experience building and maintaining a program or curriculum library that serves multiple delivery teams or contexts. You know how to design for reuse, not just for one-time use\n Experience designing human-centered learning experiences that scale through technology.\n Experience designing training for the people who deliver your programs, not just the content itself, but the facilitation guides, design rationale, and enablement that help others teach it well\n Experience and agility with keeping old, evolving, and piloting new designs all at the same time.\n Exceptional written and verbal communicator who expresses ideas clearly, simply, and with strong design instincts\n Competent in synthesizing multiple data types such as observations, user interviews, research, feedback, and quantitative data to identify root problems and drive design improvements\n Deep alignment with Braven's core values and a belief in Braven's mission, informed by experience working with or for student populations like Braven's Fellows — predominantly people of color from low-income backgrounds\n Proven track record of building and growing high-performing teams, including developing talent at multiple levels and scoping new roles as an organization grows\n Strategic thinker who can hold both the quality of a single experience and the coherence of the full student journey simultaneously, you can zoom in and zoom out\n Skilled at working across teams and influencing without formal authority, you know how to advocate for quality with colleagues who have different mandates and timelines\n Experience contributing to organizational strategy as a senior leader, including cross-functional collaboration at the leadership team level\n\nTechnical Skills\n\n Proficient in learning management systems and content editors (Braven currently uses Canvas and Articulate)\n\nPlease know that no one ever meets 100% of the preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.\n\nWork Demands\n\n Ability to work in-person in one of these three hub cities of Braven’s: Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NY), 3 days per week\n Travel 2–3 times per quarter for team convenings, site visits, and organizational gatherings \n\nAdditional Requirements\n\n Authorized to work in the U.S.\n Braven doesn’t offer employment visa sponsorship\n\nApplication & Interview Process\nWhile the interview process may vary slightly, the general process will be:\n\n Phone screen with Talent Team member\n Performance Task\n Interview with Hiring Manager\n Panel Interview with Key Partners\n Reference Checks\n\nBenefitsCompensation and Benefits\nBraven offers competitive base salaries based on the midpoint of the market among not-for-profit organizations of similar size, with opportunities for salary growth over time. We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, Braven does not negotiate salary offers; instead, each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking.\nStarting salary within the range is determined by role scope and qualifications, with new hires starting at the lower end to allow for growth with performance. Braven does not base compensation on individual candidate salary expectations and is committed to maintaining internal equity. The salary ranges, by geographic market, for this role are set forth $154,500-$193,100 in Atlanta, $163,200-$204,000 in Chicago, and $179,600-$224,400 in New York City and Newark. This is based on a 50-hour work week. This is a full-time, and benefits eligible position where you will be working at 100% capacity. \nBraven also provides competitive, comprehensive benefits, recognition, and career development. While Braven reserves the right to change benefits at any time, current benefits include: \n\n Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)\n Braven supports your path to parenthood and beyond with $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health\n Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month\n Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employees and dependents\n 12 weeks of paid parental leave\n A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff\n\nPlease note that Braven is firm in its compensation philosophy because of our deep, long time commitment to equity; therefore, only candidates who believe our total rewards package aligns with what they are looking for in their next opportunity are encouraged to apply. \n\nLocation\nWe gather in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) and work remotely 2 days a week (Monday and Friday). Therefore, this role requires teammates to live within commuting distance of one of our hubs: Atlanta, Chicago, New York City or Newark. We believe in the magic, connection, and collaboration that happens when people work together face-to-face, and we believe in giving people flexibility to focus, balance personal priorities, and save themselves two commutes per week.\nBraven is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor. We encourage talented individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

Staff Product Manager, Training Infrastructure - Weights & Biases

14 days ago

Livingston

Job Description CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com. About the Role Training a frontier model is as much an infrastructure problem as it is a modeling problem. When a run fails at hour 47 of a 72-hour job, the question is almost never "what's wrong with the code" — it's "what happened on the cluster." Node failures, network timeouts, storage bottlenecks, and scheduling decisions determine whether training runs succeed or fail, how much they cost, and how fast teams can iterate. Until now, the developer tools and the infrastructure telemetry have lived in completely separate worlds. The CoreWeave acquisition changes that. W&B can now build products that connect application-level experiment tracking with cluster health, hardware telemetry, and compute orchestration — a surface area that's hard to assemble without owning both the developer tools and the infrastructure. Reporting to the Director of Product Management, this Staff Product Manager will own the strategy and execution for the products at this intersection: W&B Launch (job submission and compute orchestration), infrastructure insights that leverage CoreWeave's unique telemetry and platform capabilities, and new product concepts — including agentic and automated research workflows — that only exist because W&B and CoreWeave are now one company. Sandboxes (managed development environments) are also part of this surface, but the core opportunity is building infrastructure-native developer tools that take advantage of the combined platform. You'll be working directly with frontier model builders — teams training on thousands of GPUs — to understand what they need and ship it. If you're energized by solving infrastructure challenges that directly accelerate deep learning workflows, collaborating with the world's best AI teams, and delivering tools that move the industry frontier forward, his role is for you. What You'll Do • Define and ship infrastructure-native products that only W&B + CoreWeave can build. This is the core of the role. The integration between W&B's experiment tracking and CoreWeave's infrastructure platform opens a new product surface — giving researchers visibility and control that spans their code, their runs, and the machines those runs execute on. You'll identify the highest-value opportunities in this design space, build conviction around them, and drive the roadmap from concept through launch and iteration., • Own W&B Launch and evolve it for the CoreWeave era. Launch is W&B's job submission and compute orchestration product. Today it helps teams submit training jobs to Kubernetes clusters and cloud providers. As part of a vertically integrated AI platform, Launch can go further — with deeper infrastructure awareness and the ability to serve as the orchestration layer for agentic and automated research workflows. You'll set the vision for what that looks like and ship it., • Spend real time with frontier AI teams and learn how they actually work. Foundation model builders are your primary customers. You'll spend significant time in their workflows — understanding how they manage infrastructure, debug failures, orchestrate computation, and increasingly automate their research processes. These conversations will directly shape the product roadmap., • Build the bridge between W&B product and CoreWeave platform engineering. This role sits at the seam between two organizations that are becoming one. You'll partner with CoreWeave's infrastructure and platform teams to identify integration opportunities, and with W&B's engineering teams to build them into products researchers actually want to use. Your ability to translate between infrastructure engineers and ML researchers will be critical., • Find and resolve friction points in the job submission, compute management, and infrastructure observability workflows, maintaining W&B's high bar for craft and quality., • Explore new product concepts at the hardware-software boundary. The design space opened by the CoreWeave integration is large — spanning profiling, environments, automation, agents, and more. You'll evaluate which new concepts have the highest impact for frontier AI teams and drive the most promising ones from zero to one. Who You Are • Experience: You have 7+ years as a product manager working on developer tools, deep learning infrastructure, or ML engineer platforms., • End-to-end ownership: You've taken a technical product—whether a model, orchestration feature, or developer tool—all the way to production, including defining success criteria, measuring effectiveness, and iterating to improve impact and user happiness., • Technical fluency: You're comfortable discussing Kubernetes and SLURM, job scheduling, hyperparameter optimization algorithms, and API design with engineers and AI researchers., • Cross-functional influence: You're skilled at managing and influencing AI engineers, software engineers, and stakeholders—with or without official authority—to align teams and drive outcomes., • Clear communication: A major part of this role is seeking feedback from many directions and channeling it into a single, executable stream. You bring clarity and organization to complex, fast-moving environments., • Care and taste: You have strong opinions about the products you use and a high bar for developer experience. Preferred • Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX), distributed training, or LLM development workflows., • Hands-on experience with SLURM or Kubernetes for GPU-intensive workloads., • Prior exposure to W&B or other experiment-tracking and model management platforms., • Understanding of hyperparameter optimization methods and evaluation workflows for large models. Wondering if You're a Good Fit? We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams—even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we've found compatible with our team: • Outgoing and user-focused. You'll love this role if you enjoy connecting with real users day to day, helping them solve issues, and sharing patterns for making the most of our products, • Self-directed and willing to take risks. At our speed and scale, product managers need to proactively find solutions, improve processes, and collaborate with team members and engaged users. Your initiative will really shine here., • Hands-on with AI. You experiment with generative AI to improve your own workflow and build user-facing prototypes. You keep up to date every day with what's new in the AI / LLM world., • Passionate about developer experience. You care deeply about building tools that help AI practitioners accelerate their iteration and discovery. You know small friction points compound, and smoothing them out is what makes a delightful and winning developer tool. Why Us? We work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values: • Be Curious at Your Core, • Act Like an Owner, • Empower Employees, • Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences, • Achieve More Together We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us! The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility). What We Offer The range we've posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include: • Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave, • Company-paid Life Insurance, • Voluntary supplemental life insurance, • Short and long-term disability insurance, • Flexible Spending Account, • Health Savings Account, • Tuition Reimbursement, • Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), • Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health, • Family-Forming support provided by Carrot, • Paid Parental Leave, • Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside, • 401(k) with a generous employer match, • Flexible PTO, • Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations, • A casual work environment, • A work culture focused on innovative disruption California Applicants California Consumer Privacy Act Equal Opportunity & Accommodations CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com. Export Control Compliance This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.

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