Product Lead

Remote
Human Agency Chicago, IL
Full Time Senior Level 8+ years

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About This Role

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

AWS * Tableau * Microsoft Azure * Snowflake * APIs * BigQuery * Redshift * GPTs *

* Required skills

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