Product Lead
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This role is for a hands-on Product Lead who will embed directly into client organizations to understand workflows and deliver AI-powered software. You will uncover needs, set priorities, and ship solutions, bringing modern product practices to complex industries.
Responsibilities
- Embed with client teams to observe workflows, run discovery, and translate insights into actionable software requirements
- Develop and apply structured prioritization methods to guide trade-offs, balancing user value, business outcomes, and technical feasibility
- Keep teams focused on the highest-leverage opportunities
- Scope projects with realistic estimates and clear milestones that deliver value early and often
- Ship prototypes, gain feedback, iterate to value, and release production-grade solutions
- Lead small pods of engineers and operators to ship high-quality, on-time solutions
- Facilitate leadership updates and reporting, ensuring executives are aligned and confident in progress
- Work directly with APIs, data pipelines, and AI models to shape and validate solutions
- Partner with engineers to design and ship AI-driven tools that fit seamlessly into existing workflows
- Establish best practices for evaluating tools, weighing accuracy, usability, and long-term fit
- Stay current on AI capabilities and translate them into practical applications inside the client's environment
- Raise the bar for product craft, from clear scopes to clean communication and transparent evaluations
- Codify lessons into playbooks so the client builds lasting product capability
- Build a culture of excellence: sharing wins, measuring outcomes, celebrating progress, and owning areas of improvement
Requirements
- 8+ years of product management experience
- Proven ability to balance discovery and delivery
- Experience leading small engineering teams or pods with high accountability
- Consulting mindset
- Excellent communication skills flexed for end users, engineers, and executives
- Comfortable working with APIs and data pipelines
- Experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
- Able to make smart build choices with AI (APIs, custom GPTs)
- Operates confidently in cloud environments (Microsoft Azure, AWS ecosystems)
Qualifications
- 8+ years of product management experience, ideally building tools for complex workflows or mission-critical environments
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with enterprise integrations (e.g. Tableau)
Skills
* Required skills
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