POSITION SUMMARYAs a Product Development Lead, you'll own the product direction for a squad within this program - shaping what gets built, setting priorities, and ensuring every product solves real problems for the people who use it. You'll partner with a dedicated Project Lead, Palantir engineers, and business stakeholders to move from concept to production.
Products span a range of complexity - from operational tools that streamline field workflows to applications that leverage machine learning and AI capabilities. Across all of them, you'll work alongside AI-enabled development tools and technical teams to deliver meaningful impact at speed.
RESPONSIBILITIES - Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for your squad's products, aligned with the overall platform vision and business strategy.
- Gather requirements from stakeholders and subject matter experts, prioritize features, and define acceptance criteria to ensure work is ready for sprint commitment.
- Serve as the primary voice of the business and frontline users - advocate for their workflows, pain points, and priorities in every product decision.
- Facilitate product cadences: backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Participate in standups and cross-team coordination, providing product context and surfacing dependencies.
- Conduct user acceptance testing to validate features and iterations before release.
- Define and track product KPIs to assess adoption, usability, and business impact.
Scope and Growth- The program operates with AI tools integrated into daily workflows - agentic coding assistants, Palantir AIP, and AI-enabled development practices. No prior experience required, but you'll be expected to adopt them.
- Product delivery runs 3-9 months from inception to production. You may manage up to two products simultaneously, participating in transition planning as products reach go-live and hand off to a sustaining team.
- This role does not currently have direct reports, but may grow to include product managers, interns, or consultants as the team scales.
QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in a software product delivery environment, preferably in product management, product ownership, or business analysis.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and sprint-based delivery.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex business problems into clearly defined product requirements.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity - this program is maturing its processes while delivering simultaneously.
- Experience in the construction industry or related fields (engineering, infrastructure, industrial).
- Experience working in a matrixed or cross-functional team structure with shared accountability.
- Experience with data platforms, analytics tools, or enterprise software products.
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts at a product level (not engineering depth - understanding what's possible and how to frame requirements for AI-enabled features).
For California locations only, the salary range for this position is: $125,000 - $160,000 depending on location. This does not include a possible bonus and other benefits which can impact total compensation. Compensation offered may vary based on work location, experience, qualifications, specialty, training, and market and business considerations, among other factors.
