AI Platform & Infrastructure Product Manager

vikingglobalinvestors; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Viking Global Investors in New York seeks a Technology Product Manager to lead the Infrastructure team's AI platform initiatives. You will partner with engineering leads to translate priorities into plans, deliver cross-functional programs, and ensure governance across AI tools and platforms.

You will manage dependencies, drive roadmap delivery for gateways, providers, and citizen-developer tooling, and coordinate with Compliance and Legal to align human-in-the-loop requirements and controls.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical project, program, or product management.
• Bachelor's degree with a record of academic success.
• Track record delivering multi-team technical projects with fixed deadlines.
• Hands-on experience running Agile (Scrum or Kanban) teams and working knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
• Understanding of platform technology including cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), identity and SSO, networking, APIs, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Heavy daily use of LLM tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) and concepts such as models, agents, MCP, and token/cost optimization.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet.
• Experience in investment management or regulated industry preferred.
• Agile or project management certification (CSM/PSM/CSPO/PMP) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Infrastructure leadership and technical leads to translate priorities into project plans with clear scope and milestones.
• Break initiatives into well-scoped work with clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Track and manage dependencies across Platform Engineering, Core Infrastructure, Networking, Information Security, Software Engineering, and business teams.
• Surface risks and slippage early and elevate with recommended options.
• Lead team status meetings, including daily stand-ups and sprint planning.
• Manage the team’s project portfolio and maintain a current view of in-flight work and upcoming commitments.
• Drive delivery of the firm’s AI platform roadmap, including gateways, model/inference providers, and tool integrations.
• Translate AI policies into platform requirements and controls in partnership with Compliance, Legal, and Info Security.
• Agree human-in-the-loop requirements with Compliance before agentic workflows go live.
• Track and report AI platform adoption and spend across providers.
• Assess impact of new vendor releases on plans in flight.
• Partner with business and research teams adopting AI tools to understand needs and bring them into the roadmap.
• Own regular communication with stakeholders, including weekly status and leadership updates.
• Build relationships and represent Infrastructure commitments to partner teams.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing; enforce SDLC controls.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

LLM tools knowledge

Project management

SDLC / CI-CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheet

Job description

Viking Global Investors in New York seeks a Technology Product Manager to lead the Infrastructure team's AI platform initiatives. You will partner with engineering leads to translate priorities into plans, deliver cross-functional programs, and ensure governance across AI tools and platforms.

You will manage dependencies, drive roadmap delivery for gateways, providers, and citizen-developer tooling, and coordinate with Compliance and Legal to align human-in-the-loop requirements and controls.