Senior Forward-Deployed AI Product Manager (National Security)

Scale AI; Ashington; On-site; GBP 113,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Career Growth

Building Scale Community

Parental Support

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Product Manager for the Public Sector to lead military planning and real-time AI/Alerting within constrained environments. You will own a cross-cutting portfolio, translate operational realities into actionable input for engineers, and manage senior DoD and civilian stakeholders while driving production deployments.

The role emphasizes deep domain fluency, production-ready delivery, and the ability to balance competing priorities in a high-stakes setting with TS/SCI

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product management, technical program management, or customer-facing product ownership.
• Experience shipping AI or data products into large, security-constrained organizations.
• Ability to translate customer reality into product direction with credible judgment.

Responsibilities

• Own product outcomes for military planning and LUX across DoW and National Security accounts.
• Translate operational reality into high-signal input for engineering and platform teams.
• Build trusted advisory relationships with senior military leaders and stakeholders.
• Drive deployments into production in classified and constrained environments.
• Shape cross-cutting solutions spanning multiple stakeholders and use cases.

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Military/DoD domain knowledge

Real-time data products

Portfolio ownership

Communication

Travel readiness

System thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Kinesis

AFSIM

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Product Manager for the Public Sector to lead military planning and real-time AI/Alerting within constrained environments. You will own a cross-cutting portfolio, translate operational realities into actionable input for engineers, and manage senior DoD and civilian stakeholders while driving production deployments.

The role emphasizes deep domain fluency, production-ready delivery, and the ability to balance competing priorities in a high-stakes setting with TS/SCI