Product Manager Technical - AI - Redmond, WA

  •  Reference Number: 405408
  •  Posted: 07/21/2026
  •  Job Type: Contract

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

Redmond, WA

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