Principal Product Manager, AI Platform
Quick Summary
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Manager, AI Platform based in United States.
This is a high-impact product leadership role at the center of an organization-wide shift toward an AI-first operating model.
You will join a small, focused team responsible for rethinking core business operations through intelligent, internally owned technology.
The role combines product strategy, systems thinking, hands-on AI prototyping, and close collaboration with engineering teams.
You will identify complex operational challenges, turn them into measurable problems, and develop AI-driven solutions using real-world data.
A major focus will be building a sophisticated decision platform that can replace third-party reporting while supporting diverse users, industries, and business needs.
You will operate with significant autonomy, making high-stakes product decisions and working directly with senior product and technology leadership.
This opportunity is particularly suited to a product leader who enjoys ambiguous environments, building from first principles, and turning emerging AI capabilities into reliable production systems.
- Identify critical operational challenges, define the underlying problems, and design AI-driven solutions that can be prototyped and validated against real-world data.
- Build working prototypes using AI tools and collaborate closely with engineering teams to transform successful concepts into reliable, scalable production systems.
- Define measurable metrics for complex operational problems and use data to validate solutions, assess outcomes, and continuously improve product decisions.
- Lead the development of a sophisticated decision engine designed to replace vendor reporting with an internally owned platform tailored to varied user requirements.
- Drive product strategy and judgment for closed-loop attribution systems that connect client actions with measurable revenue outcomes.
- Design platform capabilities that can support multiple business units and industries while balancing shared infrastructure with configurable experiences.
- Communicate product decisions, trade-offs, risks, and architectural implications clearly to senior product and technology leadership.
- Operate as a senior product decision-maker within a small, autonomous team, escalating high-stakes issues appropriately and maintaining ownership through execution.
Requirements
~1 min read- Proven experience identifying complex operational problems and designing AI-driven solutions rather than simply managing predefined product roadmaps.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping working software prototypes or internal tools using AI coding tools.
- Deep understanding of modern AI capabilities and limitations, including the ability to design robust systems that account for failure modes, edge cases, and real-world constraints.
- Strong systems-thinking capabilities, with the ability to evaluate second-order effects, potential blast radius, dependencies, and long-term architectural implications.
- Experience designing platform products that serve diverse user needs across multiple industries, client types, or business units while balancing common components with configurable functionality.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational challenges into measurable problems and validate proposed solutions using data.
- Experience with decision engines, reporting platforms, closed-loop attribution systems, or similar products is strongly preferred.
- Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex decisions and trade-offs clearly and concisely through short-form documentation.
- Comfortable working autonomously in ambiguous problem spaces and contributing effectively within a small, self-directed team.
- Experience in marketing services or multi-industry platform products is a plus.
What We Offer
~1 min readLocation & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 29, 2026
- First seen
- September 29, 2026
- Last seen
- September 29, 2026
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- Trust Level
- 68%
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- September 29, 2026
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