Forward Deployed Product Manager

⍜ Telescope AI; Sunshine Coast Regional; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sunshine Coast base

Job summary

Telescope AI, based on the Sunshine Coast, is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Manager to own an AI-driven portfolio for major financial clients. You’ll shepherd deployments from prototype to production, working closely with product, engineering and data teams.

You'll translate customer needs into concrete requirements, prioritise the development queue, and keep stakeholders informed on timelines and outcomes. Domestic travel to Sydney and Melbourne is expected as partnerships grow.

Qualifications

• Understand capital markets and engage credibly with product and engineering teams.
• Translate customer problems into concrete AI deployment requirements.
• Manage deployments from prototype to production and keep stakeholders informed.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of customer relationships end to end.
• Lead deployments from prototype to stable production, coordinating across product, engineering, and data teams.
• Translate ambiguous customer problems into clear requirements for configuration and deployment.
• Prioritise the development queue, balancing customer needs, commercial impact, and deliverability.
• Keep customers informed on progress, timelines, and upcoming work.
• Grow and deepen accounts by delivering real value and identifying expansion opportunities.
• Spot risks and blockers early and keep delivery moving without surprises.
• Bring field feedback back to Telescope that shapes future work.

Skills

Capital markets knowledge

Communication

Delivery & project mgmt

Account management

Job description

Forward Deployed Product Manager

Full time

AI Generated Summary

• Own our most strategic customer relationships end to end
• Turn customer needs into shipped product
• Take AI from prototype to production
• Part product, part delivery, part account management

About The Role

You’ll own the relationship and the delivery for a portfolio of our customers, embedding with their teams to take an AI product from first prototype to stable production, then growing the account by delivering value they can see.

What matters most is that you understand capital markets, are comfortable around technology, and can walk into a customer’s office and hold your own with anyone in the building, from compliance to product to engineering. There’s a commercial element, but the heart of the job is delivery, not hard-sell sales.

We work with some of the largest names in the industry, and this role is hands‑on with them. Expect domestic travel, mainly Sydney and Melbourne, heavier early in a partnership. We’d love you based on the Sunshine Coast, where our team is.

• Own a portfolio of our customer relationships end to end, becoming their trusted point of contact and their advocate inside Telescope.
• Lead deployments from first prototype to stable production, coordinating across our product, engineering, and data teams to get features shipped.
• Translate ambiguous customer problems into clear requirements, and shape how our AI products are configured and deployed for each platform.
• Prioritise the development queue, balancing customer needs, commercial impact, and what’s realistic to deliver.
• Keep customers clearly informed on progress, timelines, and what’s coming next.
• Grow and deepen accounts by delivering real value and spotting opportunities to do more.
• Spot risks and blockers early, and keep delivery moving without surprises.
• Bring field feedback back to Telescope that shapes what we build next.

You might thrive in this role if

• Understand financial services or capital markets well, and can hold your own in a room full of industry experts.
• Are an exceptional communicator who builds trust quickly and keeps people informed and confident.
• Are comfortable around technology and can engage credibly with product and engineering teams, even though you won’t be writing code day to day.
• Enjoy delivery and project management: coordinating teams, sequencing work, and getting things over the line.
• Have a commercial instinct and are comfortable growing an account, without being a hard‑sell salesperson.
• Have delivered complex projects in fast‑moving or ambiguous environments.
• Stay organised and calm across multiple customers and competing priorities, and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Take ownership of outcomes and follow through.
• Are happy to travel domestically within Australia, mainly Sydney and Melbourne, more so in the early months of a new partnership.

Why join us

• Real impact. Own the relationships and delivery for customers using AI to change how they serve millions of their own users.
• Frontier AI. Work with a team building at the frontier, orchestrating the best models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others.
• Ownership and autonomy. Run your accounts and your deployments end to end.
• Sunshine Coast base. Join an open, innovative team where every voice matters and work‑life balance is valued.

About Telescope

Telescope builds API and white‑labelled AI products for financial and brokerage platforms. We work with some of the largest names in the industry to bring applied AI to capital markets, and we’re growing fast.

Our flagship product, Ripple, turns a written prompt into a structured basket of instruments, so an investor can go from an idea to a curated starting point in seconds. Alongside it we build AI research, technical analysis, conversational, news, and compliance products, all designed for capital markets from the ground up. We orchestrate across frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cohere, and Meta, picking the best model for each task and swapping as the frontier shifts.

Join us on the Sunshine Coast, where you’ll help shape the forefront of AI in finance in an environment that values rapid iteration, judgement, and collaboration.

About Telescope AI

We specialize in AI‑driven solutions for the finance sector, serving publishers, brokers, and fund managers with advanced tools.

Our flagship product, Ripple, generates personalized stock portfolios from written prompts by analyzing ripple effects of specific events or scenarios. We fuse large language models with client datasets to give investors a blend of algorithmic precision and human wisdom—speeding up research and offering more informed starting points for decision‑making.

Our reliance on frontier models with leading AI institutions like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as emerging players like Google Gemini, Llama, and Cohere. Here, you’ll have both freedom and support to experiment with the latest innovations in AI.

Join us at Telescope AI, on the beautiful Sunshine Coast, where you’ll help shape the forefront of AI‑driven finance in an environment that values rapid iteration, creativity, and collaboration.

This role description does not constitute an offer of employment.