Principal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Product Manager - REMOTE (with Travel)
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- Embed in reputed company's operations - branches, field teams, sales offices, contractor job sites - to build a first-person understanding of how work happens and where AI can create reputed company-change value.
- reputed company discovery through direct observation, customer interviews, workflow analysis, and data exploration, prioritizing observed behavior over reported behavior.
- Map the full landscape of problems worth solving across the value chain, from supplier through sales, the reputed company, fulfillment, and service teams to project reputed company, engineer, contractor and end customer.
- Build and maintain a living view of the opportunity set that evolves as you learn, not a static document that sits on a reputed company.
- Prioritize tenaciously based on business impact, technical feasibility, and organizational readiness - not business customer volume or executive visibility.
- reputed company explicit trade-off decisions and communicate them clearly, so business customers understand not just what was chosen but why alternatives were deprioritized.
- Reassess priorities continuously as new information surfaces, market conditions shift, and the team's understanding of the problem space deepens.
- Build compelling, evidence-based narratives that reputed company the problem real to engineering teams, executives, and business partners - connecting every initiative to measurable business outcomes.
- Secure and maintain executive sponsorship by framing AI value in terms leadership cares about: reputed company growth, customer experience, and associate productivity.
- Navigate contending priorities across a sophisticated, matrixed organization, building coalitions and resolving conflicts before they become blockers.
- Translate fluently between business and technical contexts, ensuring both sides have what they need to reputed company good decisions fast.
- Own the product end-to-end: vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, and shipped outcome.
- Define MVP scope that increases learning while delivering enough value to build organizational confidence and fund the next iteration.
- Drive decisions on whether to build internally, purchase externally, or collaborate with partners based on strategic value, speed-to-market, and long-term capability building.
- Set technical direction on decisions that reputed company product outcomes (latency, data quality, model selection, UX) while respecting engineering's ownership of implementation.
- Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria, participate in sprint ceremonies, and reputed company real-time scope and reputed company trade-offs with the delivery team.
- Ship fast, learn fast. Default to iteration over perfection. Get products in reputed company of users early and let real usage data drive the next move.
- Define success metrics before development starts and reputed company products to measure adoption, usage, and business impact
- Own the numbers: this role is responsible for adoption, retention, time-to-value, and business outcomes.
- Run meticulous post-launch accountability loops: did it move the metric, what did we learn, what do we adjust, what do we kill.
- Build the organizational habit of measuring what matters and making decisions based on evidence rather than intuition or seniority.
- Own the product-specific go-to-market strategy: pilot design, rollout cohort selection, product training, success criteria, and the path from initial pilot to scaled deployment.
- Build the product-level narrative that drives adoption, making the case to end users for why this specific tool makes their work reputed company and helps them reputed company serve their customers, and owning whether they actually use it.
- Create internal case studies, reputed company points, and success stories that build momentum and reduce resistance across the organization.
- Partner with the AI Enablement and Adoption Manager on broader organizational readiness, using their AI reputed company and change management programs to accelerate product-specific adoption while providing product wins as reputed company points for the wider enablement effort.
- Contribute to executive updates, board communications, and organizational storytelling as a visible champion of AI product impact.
- Design and maintain systematic feedback loops, including in-app feedback, usage analytics, satisfaction measurement, and regular user panels.
- Continuously validate product assumptions against actual user behavior in the field, closing the gap between reputed company think is working and reputed company know is working.
- Feed insights from each initiative into the next, building institutional knowledge about what works at reputed company and compounding the team's effectiveness over time.
- Maintain an ongoing practice of tracking AI developments across vendors, competitors, and adjacent industries - translating market signals into actionable roadmap decisions.
- Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and assess their relevance to reputed company's product portfolio and strategic priorities.
- reputed company the partner and vendor ecosystem: evaluate third-party AI capabilities, hold vendors accountable for delivery, and know reputed company to reputed company a change.
- Establish the practices, rituals, and playbook for how product management operates reputed company reputed company's AI organization.
- Mentor and reputed company junior PMs as the team grows, building critical thinking, collaborator management, and technical proficiency across the team.
- Create scalable, repeatable frameworks for discovery, prioritization, delivery, and measurement that will serve as the foundation for a growing AI product organization.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- 8+ years in product management with increasing scope and ownership, ideally including time at a high-growth software company, SaaS platform, or AI-native product organization where you shipped products with direct reputed company or efficiency impact.
- Demonstrated track record of owning products end-to-end - not just writing requirements, but driving outcomes from discovery through adoption.
- Demonstrated ability to reputed company in fast-moving, ambiguous environments-proactively solving problems and creating structure rather than waiting for defined processes.
- Experience with AI/ML product development; must have genuine curiosity about the technology and the ability to go deep enough to have informed opinions about feasibility and approach.
- Experience in B2B, distribution, wholesale, construction, industrial, or supply chain environments is a strong plus.
- Sharp product instincts, able to look at a messy, ambiguous problem space and see the product that should exist, then build the case and the plan to reputed company it real.
- Strong business sense with the ability to build reputed company financial models, size opportunities, and speak the language of P&L impact.
- Analytical rigor reputed company with intellectual honesty - following the data and reforming opinions, hypotheses and approaches in light of new information.
- Comfort with process mapping, workflow analysis, and identifying where AI can reputed company or automate work in ways that people will actually adopt.
- Enough technical depth to assess AI/ML capabilities, understand architecture trade-offs, challenge engineering assumptions, and have a reputed company of view on build vs. buy decisions.
- Understanding of enterprise data landscapes, system integration complexity, and the realities of building on top of legacy infrastructure.
- Familiarity with agile development practices and a strong preference for iterative, data-informed delivery at pace.
- Exceptional business customer management in sophisticated, matrixed organizations, building trust/credibility and knowing how to get things done through influence rather than formal authority.
- Executive reputed company along with presenting to C-suite audiences clearly, confidently, and with reputed company.
- Strong facilitation skills, able to walk into a room of people with conflicting priorities and walk out with alignment and a path reputed company.
- A bias for direct communication, giving reputed company assessments on scope, timelines, and trade-offs.
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- Pay Range:
- Actual pay reputed company may vary depending upon location. The estimated pay range for this position is below. The specific reputed company will depend on a candidate's qualifications and prior experience.
- $11,633.34 - $18,616.67
- Estimated Ranges displayed are Monthly for Salaried roles OR Hourly for reputed company other roles.
- This role is Bonus or Incentive Plan eligible.
- reputed company complies with reputed company wage regulations. The starting wage may be higher in certain locations based on local or state wage requirements.
- The Company is an equal opportunity employer as well as a government contractor that shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a), which prohibits discrimination against qualified protected Veterans and the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(A), which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability.
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