Technical Product Manager

AltaML Inc.; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped Vacation

Make an Impact

Work with PhD and Master Level Colleag

Competitive Benefits

Hybrid office spaces

Big Slack Energy

Job summary

AltaML Inc. is seeking a technically oriented product leader to own the AltaForge roadmap and balance cost, capability, and reuse. You will steer technical decisions, run spikes with AI tools, and align with developer teams to scale solutions for clients.

You bring hands-on engineering experience, a track record of product decisions with measurable impact, and comfort working with agentic systems and LLMs in dynamic environments.

Qualifications

• Real systems shipped and maintained.
• Managed products from a technical perspective.
• Experience with agentic systems and LLM applications.
• Observability, developer tooling or platform work for developers.
• Work with AI tooling daily (e.g., Claude, agents, Claude Code).
• Made technology choices and understood consequences.
• Able to explain technical calls to non-engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical product roadmap for the AltaForge platform.
• Conduct technical discovery with the team to guide decisions.
• Vet products/frameworks and validate them with quick spikes.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure scalable, observable platforms for clients.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical product management

Agentic systems

LLM applications

Observability

Developer tooling

AI tooling

Engineering communication

Job description

AltaML is an applied artificial intelligence company, building and deploying solutions for organizations where the problems are real and the stakes are high, across public sector, construction, energy, and finance.

We believe in making small bets, failing fast, and being better together. We are on the lookout for creative problem-solvers, out-of-the-box thinkers who strive to solve big problems alongside clients, and early tech adopters driven to achieve success.

We don't hire for fit; we hire to add. We are looking for people who play by 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!

About the Role:

You own the technical product roadmap for our AltaForge platform: the decisions that shape what the platform costs, what it can do, and what every solution built on it inherits. The trade-offs between models, performance against cost, and what we can run for sovereign work. What becomes a shared library and what stays a one-off. How observability integrates into every solution. Ensuring we make the right technical decisions to scale our platform, serve our clients, and enable our business is your responsibility.

The work is proper technical discovery: research into the technical architecture of our products, done with the team, to make strong technical decisions that complement our platform, not only for today but for the future.

You take action. You vet technical products and frameworks yourself to validate they will work for us, and you validate by building: quick spikes with AI tools. You are expert at technical discovery with the team, turning what you find into the right product decision. You identify trends in agentic programming and use them to inform your product roadmap on what is needed.

Your decisions only work if the teams building on them are with you. Our own developers and engineers are part of your clients: you serve them, you learn from them, and through them you make sure the platform is built for our external clients.

This is also the seat closest to the agentic layer we are building over our own tools, where agents do the work and people sign off.

What You Bring:

• You have been a software engineer. Real systems shipped and maintained.

• You have managed products already, from a technical perspective.

• You have worked with agentic systems and LLM applications.

• You have done observability, developer tooling, or platform work where your users are developers.

• You work with AI tooling every day. Claude, agents, Claude Code.

• You have made technology choices and lived with the consequences, and you know what to look for the second time.

• You have real experience speaking with engineers and you value their perspective, and you can explain a technical call to someone who is not a software engineer.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Knowledge graphs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
• Experience working with Enterprise or Public Sector clients, and the security and procurement realities that come with them.

$110,000 - $130,000 a year

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 elevate 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:

• Uncapped 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 AI 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.