AI Product Leader — Data, Models & Field Trials

Evolv; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 162,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Calm subscription

Job summary

Evolv Technology is seeking a Director of Product, AI, to lead the center of our AI engineering and research teams, shaping data, models, and evaluation for weapons detection and computer vision. You will translate deep technical work into strategic product decisions and own the lifecycle from data collection to field deployment.

You will embed with AI engineering as the product lead for detection capabilities, balancing performance, latency, and customer experience, and coordinating with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of AI, machine learning, or computer vision products from strategy through production.
• Experience bringing AI or computer vision systems to production in security, safety-critical, or other detection applications where accuracy and reliability matter.
• Strong understanding of AI and computer vision architectures, model evaluation, data pipelines, and technical trade-offs.
• Experienced in defining data collection, annotation, validation, and dataset quality standards.
• Experience deploying ML systems on physical or edge hardware.
• Track record of leading cross-functional decisions across research, engineering, field operations, legal, and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to translate technical complexity and business constraints into clear product decisions and priorities.
• Experience designing field trials and using customer and performance data to inform product and release decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define data collection strategy: what scenarios, environments, and threat types need more or better training data
• Own annotation guidelines in partnership with AI engineering
• Partner with AI engineering on training methodology and validation approach
• Define and own model evaluation metrics specific to weapons detection (false positive/negative rates, detection latency, throughput under real-world load) and the standards for when a model is ready to ship
• Design and run field trials with prospects and customers; use real-world trial results for product iteration
• Collaborate closely with AI researchers and engineers to define product vision and technical roadmaps
• Evaluate diverse AI models and technical approaches to select the optimal solution for specific security challenges
• Analyze trade-offs across latency, accuracy, compute cost, and hardware constraints, and make explicit decisions
• Oversee feature development from early experimentation through full production deployment
• Work with design and product teams to integrate AI capabilities into intuitive customer- and operator-facing workflows
• Partner with legal/compliance on how detection performance is represented externally to customers and the market
• You will report directly to the Chief Product Officer and operate as an individual contributor within the Product organization. This role will work closely with cross-functional partners and require travel to customer sites and field-trial locations to gather insights, support testing, and help translate real-world needs into product decisions.

Skills

AI

ML

Computer vision

Product management

Job description

Evolv Technology is seeking a Director of Product, AI, to lead the center of our AI engineering and research teams, shaping data, models, and evaluation for weapons detection and computer vision. You will translate deep technical work into strategic product decisions and own the lifecycle from data collection to field deployment.

You will embed with AI engineering as the product lead for detection capabilities, balancing performance, latency, and customer experience, and coordinating with