Product Manager

AltaML; Calgary; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Product Manager to spearhead the development of GenAI-backed products. This role involves engaging with stakeholders to uncover industry pain points and leveraging machine learning technologies to create impactful solutions. The ideal candidate will excel in communication, possess a strong technical background, and thrive in a collaborative environment. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly influence the success of transformative AI ventures. If you're passionate about driving change through technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Vacation

Competitive Benefits

Hybrid Work Environment

Collaboration with PhD and Master Level Colleagues

Qualifications

• 1+ year as a Product Manager with strong communication skills.
• Experience with machine learning and agile development processes.

Responsibilities

• Run discovery sessions to identify product opportunities.
• Collaborate with teams to develop and launch products.

Skills

Machine Learning

Generative AI

Product Management

Communication Skills

Agile Methodologies

Data-informed Decision Making

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Certification in Product Management

Tools

Wireframing Tools

Prototyping Tools

Job description

About AltaML’s Venture Studio:

AltaML’s Venture Studio builds and invests in early-stage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) companies, helping founders fast-track their journey from zero to one. By combining technical expertise, operational support, and insights from our corporate labs, we create high-performing applied AI ventures with a competitive edge. With a proven track record in finance, agriculture, energy, and beyond, we transform ideas into successful companies.

We identify and partner with exceptional founders, selecting and developing ventures that drive transformative change. Our Studio accelerates the path to market by allowing founders to focus on what matters most—raising capital, driving sales, and refining their vision. We provide:

1. Expert support in Machine Learning, Software, and Product Management

2. Access to insights, data, IP, and domain expertise from our corporate labs

3. Experience across 400+ projects with 15-20 current agentic use cases

4. Business operations support in finance, business technology, talent acquisition, human resources and marketing

About the Role

We are looking for someone who wants to develop GenAI-backed products that create impact.

This person enjoys finding new business ideas through discussion with founders, end-users, decision-makers, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders.

They discover: they excel at communication and work to deeply understand industry workflows, and pain points. They use their strong technical understanding of ML, Generative AI and Agentic AI to identify where these technologies can solve problems to transform how industries work. They use their product and business acumen to identify solutions that could turn into viable businesses. They go on to test these ideas by getting the product into users’ hands, collecting feedback, and iterating towards higher impact.

They execute: they collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximize speed towards delivering impact to customers. They must understand AltaML’s core capabilities, conduct thoughtful market research, identify assumptions, create hypotheses, design experiments, and track industry / tech trends. All the while, they identify risks and assumptions and adjust the aspirational vision to meet the market’s greatest needs.

Finally, they humbly evaluate our own processes and outcomes and iterate to improve performance, ultimately driving our customer’s success through our products and services.

What You'll Do:

• Run discovery with a wide variety of internal and external users/stakeholders/customers to deeply understand an industry’s workflows and pain points, then identify product opportunities. Strong communication is paramount as this will involve collaboration with sales, operations, delivery, and technical teams, both internal and external.
• Prioritize these opportunities based on estimated value to customers, market research and analysis, and technical feasibility.
• Work collaboratively with our machine learning, software development, and UI teams to execute on product development using agile processes.
• Identify and prioritize assumptions and hypotheses to effectively de-risk and validate venture opportunities. Research product and tech trends to keep up to date with the rapidly evolving world of technology.
• Articulate a clear and compelling product vision.
• Translate the product vision into a detailed roadmap outlining key milestones, features, and timelines.
• Contribute to a Go To Market plan, including developing pricing models, by talking to customers and testing hypotheses.
• Scale the product team’s impact by championing product principles and practices across the AltaML organization.
• Ruthlessly examine our own processes and drive continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

• Experience acting as a Product Manager for at least a year.
• Confident, clear, and concise communication, both internally and externally.
• Professional interaction with customers and executives.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Ability to make data-informed decisions.
• Experience with machine learning, including Generative and Agentic AI.
• Experience with building wireframes and prototypes.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and lean startup principles.
• Great storyteller

Nice to Have's:

• Experience working in a startup
• Experience with 0-1 product management, ie. managing the full life cycle of a product, from conception to release and revenue.
• Experience managing multiple products.
• Knowledge of additional functional areas such as Engineering, Sales, UX/UI, Customer Support, Marketing, or Finance
• Certification or training in Product Management through organizations such as Pragmatic Marketing or Scaled Agile
• Entrepreneurship training, for example going through Tech Stars, Y Combinator, and so on

About AltaML:

AltaML is a leading North American applied AI company with extensive experience in building and operationalizing AI software solutions in 3 forms: The Services we offer, the Reusable IP that allows us to build faster, and the product solutions we develop through our Venture Studio. Together, this forms our business model and allows us to truly elevate our human potential through Applied AI.

We are a company like no other – we believe in making small bets, failing fast, and being better together. We are looking for creative problem-solvers who obsess about the customer to find wins across different industries.

We don’t hire for fit; we hire to add. We are looking for people who play our core values of being: Agile, Gritty Humble, and Happy. If you’re passionate about AI/ML, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to work with a diverse team of wickedly smart people, we want to hear from you!

Responsible AI (RAI)

AltaML employees, contractors, and associates must be trained and well-versed in the importance of Responsible AI and empowered to enact RAI principles by developing and deploying AI solutions. They should also be empowered to raise and escalate RAI concerns as required.

AltaML is responsible for elevating public discourse and awareness of AI through open, transparent communications with the broader public.

Equal Opportunities

AltaML is dedicated to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace as an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds, encompassing ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, nationality, and educational backgrounds. If you are invited for an interview and require accommodations during the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

AltaML acknowledges that its head office is located on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages, and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community.

We Look for A-Players Who:

- Express our core values

- Are hungry for knowledge

- Want to learn new skills

- Are respectful

- Collaborate with others across the whole company

- Share knowledge with coworkers

- Educate and promote AI and ML concepts both internally and externally

- Have a high work ethic and are self-motivated

Our Perks:

Flexible Vacation- For all full time, permanent employees. Seriously, take the time you need - when you need it.

Make an Impact- Witness the impact your work contribution has on the success of our company.

Working with PhD and Master Level Colleagues- Endless conversations around the latest in Machine Learning and Applied AI.

????Competitive Benefits- For all full time, permanent employees.

Office as a Resource- Hybrid work environment with state-of-the-art office spaces that ignite collaboration.

Big Slack Energy- IYKYK.

Our Culture:

You will be working in a high-paced environment focused on creating unique ML solutions to problems across multiple industries to generate impactful value. You will be working at a company with employees who have multiple years of industrial and academic experience in data science, software engineering, product development, and machine learning fields.

You will be able to experience a collaborative company culture, which means we believe in working hard, getting the job done, and enjoying the group social on Fridays. You’ll also get flexibility in where you work, what hours you work, how much vacation you take, and what you wear. We expect hard work but respect work/life balance.

Core Values:

At AltaML, we are driven by our core values. We believe that by embodying these values in everything we do, we will exceed our customer’s expectations while creating a positive and empowering work environment for our team members. We are dedicated to living our values and strive to make them the foundation for our success.

Gritty - We are entrepreneurial, determined, and resilient, pushing through challenges to achieve our goals.

Agile - We make decisions based on “little bets” creating a safe space to take risks. We embrace an interactive process, allowing ideas to fail quickly or be scaled iteratively. Together, we continuously refine and improve our approach to reach the desired outcome.

Humble - We listen to data, embrace new ideas, admit limitations and take ownership to solve problems. We constantly push ourselves to improve and excel.

Happy - We ignite passion and purpose by fostering a dynamic work environment. We encourage tap dancing to work, common sense over rules, empowering team members to find joy in their contributions, and being your authentic self.