Forward Deployed AI Product Manager

Talkdesk; United States; Hybrid; USD 187,000 - 312,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k) plan

Uncapped paid time off

14 paid holidays annually

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

Talkdesk is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Product Manager in the United States to connect client needs with engineering solutions. This role involves client engagement to understand workflows, translating insights into AI solutions, and managing product deployment. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in healthcare technology, strong client-facing experience, and excellent communication skills. Benefits include an uncapped paid time off program, 14 paid holidays, health insurance, and retirement benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in healthcare technology.
• Demonstrated client-facing experience with owned outcomes.
• Ability to quickly understand and map workflows.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel to client sites 25-35%.

Responsibilities

• Engage with health system clients to understand workflows.
• Design AI workflow solutions in collaboration with teams.
• Drive full-cycle deployments from pilot to go-live.
• Track value metrics and outcomes for deployments.
• Contribute to internal knowledge for scaling practices.

Skills

Healthcare technology experience

Client-facing delivery experience

Strong communication skills

Ability to map complex workflows

Curiosity about AI and automation

Job description

We are hiring a Forward Deployed AI Product Manager (FDAPM) to be the connective tissue between our clients and our engineering teams. This is not a traditional PM role. You will live at the intersection of product strategy, technical delivery, and client partnership – spending meaningful time embedded with health system customers to deeply understand their workflows, then translating those insights into AI‑powered solutions that ship.

Think of this as part Product Manager, part Implementation Consultant, and part Pre/Post‑Sales Engineer. If you have spent time at Epic implementing enterprise software and have felt the pull toward product and AI, this role was built for you.

What You’ll Do:

Client Engagement & Discovery

• Serve as the primary product point of contact for a portfolio of health system clients, operating as a trusted advisor embedded in their workflows and operations.
• Lead structured discovery engagements – interviews, workflow mapping, shadowing, and document analysis – to surface automation opportunities and unmet clinical or administrative needs.
• Define the "art of the possible" for each client, helping them connect their operational pain points to our AI platform capabilities.
• Own the relationship with clinical informatics, IT, and operations stakeholders at client sites, often working alongside C‑suite sponsors.

Solution Design & Scoping

• Translate real‑world workflows – scheduling, patient outreach, referral management, prior authorizations, billing follow‑up – into structured product and configuration requirements.
• Design bespoke AI workflow solutions in collaboration with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), Applied ML, and Solution Engineers; own the scoping and definition of each engagement.
• Create and maintain living solution design documents, workflow maps, and specification artifacts that serve as the handoff to engineering.
• Serve as the voice of the customer in internal roadmap and sprint planning discussions.

Pilots, Deployment & Value Delivery

• Drive 0→1 deployments from pilot kickoff through go‑live, owning timelines, stakeholder communication, and change management planning.
• Define and track value metrics and outcome frameworks (time‑to‑value, call deflection rates, scheduling conversion, cost per contact) in partnership with clients and customer success.
• Run structured pilots, capture learnings, and manage the iteration cycle to production‑ready deployments.
• Support expansion and renewal conversations by building ROI proof points and case‑for‑scale narratives.

Product Feedback & Roadmap Influence

• Identify patterns across deployments and translate client‑specific configurations into reusable product features that can benefit the broader customer base.
• Act as the bridge between field deployments and the core product roadmap, surfacing high‑priority gaps, edge cases, and workflow requirements that should be productized.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases, playbooks, and templates that systematize the FDAPM practice as we scale.
• Collaborate closely with FDEs, ML engineers, and product leadership on the "design partner → product" motion.

What We’re Looking For:

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in healthcare technology, with hands‑on exposure to provider operations in one or more of the following domains: Patient Access (scheduling, referrals, prior auth), Care Management (outreach, care coordination, transitions of care), or Revenue Cycle (billing, collections, denial management, coding).
• Demonstrated experience in a client‑facing delivery role – implementation, technical project management, solution consulting, or customer success – where you owned outcomes, not just activities.
• Ability to quickly understand and map complex clinical and administrative workflows, then distill them into structured requirements and prioritized problem statements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to present to VP/C‑suite health system stakeholders and translate between clinical, operational, and technical audiences.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and whitespace; you default to action and bring structure to uncertainty.
• Curiosity about AI and automation; you don’t need to be an engineer, but you must be genuinely excited by what AI can do in healthcare and eager to develop deep product fluency in this space.
• Willingness to travel up to 25–35% to client sites for discovery, go‑live support, and executive meetings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at Epic Systems in a Project Manager, Implementation Consultant, Technical Services, or similar role – ideally in modules such as Cadence, Resolute PB/HB, HIM/ROI, MyChart, or Epic Cheers.
• Prior experience in a startup or high‑growth technology company in a PM, solutions engineering, or FDE‑adjacent capacity.
• Familiarity with contact center technology (CCaaS, IVR, conversational AI, NLP) or prior exposure to platforms such as Genesys, NICE, Five9, Nuance, or similar.
• Understanding of HL7 FHIR, APIs, EHR integrations, or healthcare interoperability standards.
• Experience building or contributing to product roadmaps, writing PRDs, or working in Agile/scrum delivery processes.
• Background or experience in healthcare administration, clinical informatics, health IT, nursing, or a related field.

How Success Is Measured:

• Time‑to‑value: Speed from discovery kickoff to production‑ready AI deployment for each client engagement.
• Pilot success rate: Percentage of pilots advancing to full‑scale production rollout.
• Expansion & renewal: Your accounts renew and grow – driven by measurable, documented ROI.
• Product feedback quality: Volume and quality of field insights surfaced into the core product roadmap.
• Client health: NPS, engagement, and stakeholder relationship scores across your portfolio.

Pay & Benefits

• Pay Range (Base Pay): $187,000 – $312,000
• Other Types of Pay: Based on level and role, the employee may be eligible for long‑term incentives in the form of equity and short‑term incentives of either bonus or commission.
• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) plan
• Paid Time Off: Uncapped paid time off program, subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.
• Paid Holidays: 14 paid holidays each year.
• Paid Sick Leave: Uncapped paid time off, subject to manager approval and consistent with business needs.

The Talkdesk story hinges on empathy and acceptance. It is the shared goal among all Talkdesk employees to empower a new kind of customer hero through our innovative software solution, and we firmly believe that the best path to success for our mission is inclusivity, diversity, and genuine acceptance. To that end, we will hire, promote, work along, cheer for, bond with, and warmly welcome into the Talkdesk family all persons without regard to ethnic and racial identity, indigenous heritage, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.