Technical Product Manager

Robots and Pencils

$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-12+ years in product management, deployment, or solutions engineering, with experience shipping AI products at scale.
  • Strong product sense to prioritize user needs and business outcomes based on limited information.
  • Deep fluency in Generative AI technologies and hands-on experience with agentic systems.
  • Proven ability to prototype AI solutions to validate hypotheses and de-risk product decisions.
  • Experience deploying AI solutions in enterprise settings with strong technical fluency in reading code and evaluating architectures.
  • Exceptional communication skills, proficient in drafting PRDs, technical specs, and enabling alignment with executives.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguous and rapidly changing AI landscapes.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive product vision and roadmap focusing on agentic AI solutions.
  • Translate enterprise problems into structured product requirements and prioritize accordingly.
  • Balance deployment milestones with long-term platform scalability.
  • Research user trust in AI agents to identify and test risky assumptions.
  • Design and conduct experiments to validate agentic solutions in varied scenarios.
  • Prototype agent behavior in collaboration with engineering to enhance user experience.
  • Establish frameworks for evaluating agent performance and readiness for production.

Benefits

  • Access to advanced AI tools and resources within the AWS ecosystem.
  • Opportunities for career growth and development in a cutting-edge field.
  • Flexible work environment with a focus on innovation in AI deployment.
  • Supportive team culture emphasizing collaboration and achievement of shared goals.
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Staff Product Manager who combines deep Generative and Agentic AI fluency with hands-on building ability to own AI product outcomes end-to-end. As a Staff PM, you're accountable for initiative-level outcomes, stakeholder satisfaction, and contributing to R&P's AI product practice. You think in systems, work backwards from the customer problem, and stay relentlessly curious about what's next in AI

Enterprise clients want to deploy Agents - moving from a promising demo to a production system that works at scale, meets security and compliance requirements, and delivers measurable business value is hard. This role owns that problem. You'll be part of a GenAI initiative within the AWS ecosystem, building the evals, tools, patterns, and reference architectures that make AI deployment repeatable. The mindset: prove it works, test assumptions early, and document while building.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & AI Vision
  • Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for GenAI solutions - with agentic AI (agent orchestration, tool use, multi-step workflows) as the primary focus - connecting AI capabilities to enterprise business outcomes
  • Translate enterprise problems into structured product requirements; reframe feature requests into outcome-driven priorities with explicit tradeoffs on invest in vs. defer
  • Balance near-term deployment milestones with long-term platform scalability and sustainability
  • Monitor the competitive GenAI landscape and emerging agentic patterns to inform roadmap and technology decisions

Discovery & Validation
  • Research how enterprise users interact with AI agents and where they lose trust; frame the riskiest assumptions as testable hypotheses and de-risk them first
  • Design and run experiments - POCs, pilot deployments, scenario-based testing of multi-step workflows, edge cases, and failure recovery - to validate agentic solutions where non-deterministic output makes traditional QA insufficient
  • Distill research, experiments, and competitive intelligence into clear insights that pave the path for a successful product
  • Agent Design, Prototyping & Production
  • Define agent behavior and prototype system prompts and tool schemas; partner with engineering on context management - summarization, working memory, and information flow across multi-step tasks
  • Drive multi-model architecture tradeoffs with engineering - define the quality, cost, and latency targets that determine which model serves each step in the agent workflow
  • Build AI prototypes to validate hypotheses; define human-in-the-loop boundaries and guardrails - when the agent acts autonomously, when it escalates, and how to handle non-deterministic output
  • Establish agent evaluation frameworks - task completion, reasoning quality, tool selection, failure recovery, safety - and partner with engineering on production readiness (observability, drift, responsible AI, prompt versioning)
  • Define success metrics at the agent level - task completion rate, cost per task (not per inference), escalation rate, time to resolution, and customer trust alongside business KPIs
  • Delivery & Execution
  • Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery through phased rollouts; establish the metrics framework (north star, input, guardrail metrics) and report product impact to leadership
  • Manage the product backlog, scope, dependencies, and risks; drive agile ceremonies and produce high-quality PRDs, product briefs, and decision logs
  • Evaluate technology and platform decisions from a product perspective; create deployment playbooks, reference architectures, and knowledge transfer materials so teams sustain solutions independently
  • Use AI to accelerate product work - research, analysis, prototyping, documentation - with judgment on when it needs human oversight; onboard rapidly to new domains and support team members across the initiative


Stakeholder Management
  • Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and executives; serve as the go-to product advisor and primary contact for AI product direction and deployment strategy
  • Partner with AWS Solution Architects and account teams to align on technical approach, service selection, and go-to-market for GenAI solutions
  • Manage expectations on scope, timelines, and tradeoffs; facilitate decisions across competing priorities using data, alternatives, and clear rationale
  • Frame AI capabilities and limitations for non-technical stakeholders - manage hype cycles, set realistic expectations; surface unmet needs that deepen relationships and grow the account

Required Skills
  • 8-12+ years in product management, forward deployment, or solutions engineering; must have shipped AI products from prototype through production at scale
  • Strong product sense - ability to identify what matters to users and the business, make prioritization calls with incomplete information, and shape products that deliver real outcomes
  • Deep GenAI fluency - LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, context engineering, evals - with hands-on experience building or shipping agentic systems (planning, tool use, HITL, guardrails)
  • Proven ability to prototype AI solutions using AI tools (Cursor, Claude, Copilot) to validate hypotheses and de-risk product decisions
  • Experience deploying AI solutions in enterprise environments with strong technical fluency - can read code, evaluate architectures, make product tradeoffs on technical constraints, and drive scalable deployment patterns
  • Exceptional communicator - clear PRDs, technical specs, and decision logs; has led AI products through full lifecycle and driven alignment with Directors, VPs, and C-level
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the AI landscape evolves weekly
  • PM-level fluency across the AWS AI ecosystem - Bedrock, AgentCore, SageMaker, Strands, Kendra, OpenSearch, Lambda, Step Functions - to make informed product and architecture decisions

Preferred Qualifications
  • Software engineering or coding background (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript)
  • Agency or consulting delivery experience
  • Experience in Financial Services, Healthcare, or Life Sciences industries
  • Familiarity with open-source LLM ecosystem (Llama, Mistral) for flexibility and cost optimization
  • Prior experience leading time-boxed discovery initiatives or technical spikes with rapid validation cycles

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