Applied AI Product Lead: Strategy, Roadmaps & AI Innovation

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking an experienced Applied AI Senior Product Manager to own the strategy, vision, and roadmap for AI-powered products and features. You will drive value by identifying high-impact AI opportunities, collaborating with AI/ML teams, and guiding product launches across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and responsible AI practices while delivering measurable business and customer value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Management, including post-launch maintenance and launching multiple products.
• Proven experience delivering or materially improving an AI-powered product or feature (e.g., GenAI, ML, recommendations, search, or automation).
• AI literacy regarding current capabilities, limitations, and failure modes, with familiarity with product profitability, competitive positioning, and pricing.
• Experience across 3+ business domains enabling credibility as a business-domain SME.
• Daily practical use of AI across research, discovery, analysis, documentation, and prototyping, with adaptability as tools evolve.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, vision, roadmap, and market analysis—identifying where AI adds tangible value.
• Manage backlogs, release cycles, and support models while balancing cost, latency, and quality trade-offs for AI economics.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, design, and AI/ML teams to define requirements, use cases, evaluation criteria, and guardrails.
• Influence stakeholders up to VP level and lead all critical aspects of product launches.
• Lead a team of Product Owners/Managers across a product line, promoting responsible AI practices (privacy, bias, security, transparency).

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking an experienced Applied AI Senior Product Manager to own the strategy, vision, and roadmap for AI-powered products and features. You will drive value by identifying high-impact AI opportunities, collaborating with AI/ML teams, and guiding product launches across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and responsible AI practices while delivering measurable business and customer value.