AI Technical Manager / Product Owner | USD $70k-90k

We are seeking an AI-focused Technical Manager / Product Owner to lead delivery for multiple AI initiatives. This role blends product ownership, delivery management, and AI-savvy stakeholder leadership. You’ll own outcomes, organize work for fast iteration, manage expectations with demanding business and technology partners, and collaborate closely with an AI Architect and engineering leads to turn AI opportunities into clear, shippable increments.

You are comfortable moving at a high tempo, getting to the point quickly, and keeping teams and stakeholders aligned while AI projects evolve rapidly.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous AI-related business goals into clear problem statements, prioritized backlogs, and sequenced delivery plans.
• Own the order of work : define MVP, prioritize by impact and effort, and ensure the first outcomes are meaningful and measurable.
• Manage expectations with business, technical, and partner stakeholders (including large cloud / enterprise partners) around scope, tradeoffs, and timelines.
• Act as POPM / PO across one or two concurrent AI projects, maintaining visibility, momentum, and alignment.
• Collaborate with an AI Architect and engineering leads to align business outcomes with technical implementation, without needing to be a hands-on developer.
• Facilitate Sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives with a focus on outcomes, learning, and velocity rather than ceremony.
• Anticipate risks and issues ahead of time rather than reacting late; surface them clearly and propose actionable options.
• Ensure that business outcomes, user value, and AI capabilities are consistently connected and understood by all parties.
• Maintain strong executive presence in meetings : concise updates, clear decisions, and structured communication.
• Support scale-up of AI delivery by helping define patterns, governance, and ways-of-working that can be reused across projects.

Required Skills

Nice-to-Have Skills