AI Product Lead - PE Operating Partner

3Search; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

3Search is seeking an Operating Partner to translate AI opportunities into products, adoption and revenue across a portfolio of software businesses. You’ll work directly with portfolio CEOs, product leaders and engineering teams from discovery through to launch and commercial results.

You’ll identify customer problems where AI can create valuable new products, decide what to build, test the opportunity, and drive adoption while maintaining high standards of quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• Spot a worthwhile opportunity and turn it into a product.
• Make sound technical and commercial decisions.
• Build credibility with CEOs, customers and engineering teams.
• Stay close to execution while setting the wider direction.
• Founder experience, an exit or experience working across multiple businesses would be particularly relevant.

Responsibilities

• Identify AI opportunities within portfolio companies and translate them into products.
• Lead from customer discovery through to launch and measurable commercial results.
• Collaborate with portfolio CEOs, product leaders and engineers to deliver AI features and automated workflows.
• Set clear standards for quality, evaluation and reliability.
• Shape pricing, positioning and adoption strategies across multiple businesses.
• Share successful approaches across the portfolio.

Skills

Opportunity discovery

Product strategy

Technical decision-making

Commercial judgement

Executive communication

Job description

You’ve built AI products. You’ve seen what it takes to get them into customers’ hands. Now, how would you apply that experience across a portfolio of software businesses?

I’m partnering with a software-focused private equity firm to hire an Operating Partner who will turn AI opportunities into products, adoption and revenue.

The businesses already have customers, established workflows and deep knowledge of their markets. Your job is to work out where AI can make the biggest difference, then help make it happen.

THE ROLE

You’ll work directly with portfolio CEOs, product leaders and engineering teams, taking opportunities from customer discovery through to launch and commercial results.

That means:

• Finding customer problems where AI can create a valuable new product or materially improve an existing one.
• Deciding what to build, testing the opportunity and making the case for investment.
• Getting hands-on with teams to develop AI features, agents and automated workflows.
• Setting a clear standard for quality, evaluation and reliability.
• Working through pricing, positioning and adoption so products deliver commercial value.
• Bringing successful approaches into other businesses across the portfolio.

You’ll need to move comfortably between a conversation with a CEO about growth and a working session with engineers about how a product should behave.

WHO THIS COULD SUIT

You might be an AI founder considering your next move, a product leader building agentic products, or someone who has taken applied AI from early experimentation into meaningful customer use.

What matters is evidence that you can:

• Spot a worthwhile opportunity and turn it into a product.
• Make sound technical and commercial decisions.
• Build credibility with CEOs, customers and engineering teams.
• Stay close to execution while setting the wider direction.

Founder experience, an exit or experience working across multiple businesses would be particularly relevant.

WHY CONSIDER IT?

You’ll have the scope to build across several software businesses, influence decisions directly with their leadership teams and participate in the value you help create through equity.

For someone who enjoys building, solving unfamiliar problems and seeing their work translate into business growth, there’s a lot to get stuck into.