Product Manager Technical - AI - Redmond, WA
Reference Number: 405408
Posted: 07/21/2026
Job Type: Contract
- Industry: Technology and IT
Product Manager Technical (AI)
Role Overview
The Product Manager Technical (AI) leads the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of AI-enabled products that drive business transformation, operational efficiency, and customer value. This role partners across engineering, data science, and business teams to identify high-impact opportunities, develop scalable AI solutions, and deliver measurable outcomes through responsible AI innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for AI-enabled capabilities that improve customer, partner, and operational workflows.
- Work backward from customer and partner pain points to define AI product opportunities, business cases, product requirements, and measurable outcomes.
- Identify opportunities where AI/ML, Generative AI, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation can:
- Reduce friction
- Improve decision quality
- Increase operational speed
- Scale business processes
Product Definition & Delivery
- Translate ambiguous business challenges into clear:
- Product requirements
- Acceptance criteria
- Launch readiness requirements
- Partner integration expectations
- Success metrics
- Partner closely with engineering, applied science, data science, analytics, UX, operations, legal, compliance, and external vendors to deliver AI-enabled products from concept through launch and continuous improvement.
- Influence upstream and downstream roadmaps where dependencies exist through strong judgment, technical depth, and effective stakeholder management.
AI Product Quality & Evaluation
- Define AI product evaluation frameworks, including:
- Quality benchmarks
- Regression criteria
- Human-in-the-loop review processes
- Model performance monitoring
- Feedback loops
- Launch readiness gates
- Establish instrumentation, dashboards, and inspection mechanisms to monitor:
- User adoption
- Customer experience
- Partner engagement
- Model performance
- Operational health
- Business impact
Experimentation & Optimization
- Drive experimentation strategies such as:
- Pilots
- Phased launches
- Workflow trials
- A/B testing
- User feedback programs
- Use data, customer insights, partner feedback, and technical constraints to make prioritization and trade-off decisions across competing initiatives.
Responsible AI & Governance
- Incorporate responsible AI principles throughout the product lifecycle, including:
- Fairness
- Explainability
- Privacy and security
- Safety
- Controllability
- Transparency
- Veracity and robustness
- Governance
- Build scalable operating mechanisms, including:
- Roadmap reviews
- Launch readiness reviews
- Risk and dependency tracking
- Executive narratives
- Decision documents
- Post-launch business reviews
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, Mathematics, Economics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in:
- Product Management
- Technical Product Management
- Technical Program Management
- Related roles owning technical products, platforms, or online services
- Experience owning product strategy, roadmap definition, and feature prioritization for technical products or customer-facing systems.
- Experience working directly with engineering teams and participating in technical trade-off discussions involving:
- Architecture
- APIs
- Data platforms
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Security
- Integration design
- Experience defining:
- Product requirements
- Success metrics
- Launch criteria
- Post-launch measurement frameworks
- Experience representing customer, business, and stakeholder needs during prioritization, planning, and delivery.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create:
- Product requirements documents
- Executive narratives
- Decision papers
- Stakeholder communications
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing, deploying, or managing AI/ML, Generative AI, agentic AI, or intelligent automation products at scale.
- Experience partnering with:
- Applied Science teams
- ML Engineering teams
- Data Science teams
- Analytics teams
- AI Platform teams
- Experience translating model capabilities into customer-facing or operational product experiences.
- Experience with model evaluation approaches, including:
- Automated evaluation
- Human evaluation
- Quality benchmarking
- Regression testing
- Responsible AI review mechanisms
- Experience defining AI quality metrics such as:
- Correctness
- Safety
- Groundedness
- Robustness
- Latency
- Adoption
- User satisfaction
- Cost-to-serve
- Operational impact
- Experience with:
- Cloud-based AI services
- APIs
- Data platforms
- Enterprise integrations
- AI application development patterns
- Experience with modern AI frameworks and services, including:
- Agent-based architectures
- Orchestration frameworks
- Memory systems
- Tool integrations
- LLM-powered applications
- Experience incorporating responsible AI controls and governance practices, including:
- Safety
- Privacy
- Transparency
- Governance
- Robustness
- Monitoring and steering AI behavior
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