Forward Deployed Product Manager

Higharc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

401K

Flexible PTO

Home-office stipend

Job summary

Higharc is seeking a Forward Deployed Product Manager to turn unstructured homebuilder plan data into structured, queryable assets. You’ll work embedded with engineers and client teams, shaping the product definition for a searchable plan library, analytics dashboards, and agent-enabled search. The role is remote within the continental U.S.

and involves travel up to 30%. You will prototype quickly, build data models, and partner with stakeholders to deliver measurable ROIs while expanding the

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, including enterprise deployments.
• Hands-on technical fluency: SQL, notebooks, APIs, and data interrogation.
• Prototype ideas quickly with tools like Cursor, Replit, or V0.dev.
• Experience defining structured data models and taxonomies.
• Strong judgment on data quality and decision impact.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executives.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Embed with HQ, regional, and division teams to map plan assets and truth sources.
• Own product definition for searchable plan library and analytics dashboards.
• Tune AI components to translate and categorize floorplans into data.
• Work hands-on with data and internal APIs to ship capabilities.
• Define acceptance criteria and hold the line on milestones.
• Frame ROI across catalog consolidation and strategic leverage.
• Collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineering, leadership, and clients.
• Capture playbooks and data patterns for future engagements.

Skills

PM experience

SQL

APIs

Notebooks

Data modeling

Data quality

Executive comms

Travel readiness

Data exploration

Prototyping tools

Tools

Cursor

Replit

V0.dev

Job description

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised over $175M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

Higharc is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Product Manager to turn a large production homebuilder’s unstructured plan catalog into structured, queryable product data. This is a founding role on a brand-new Forward Deployed team.

What You’ll Do

A homebuilder’s plan library is the product data behind its entire business, and at enterprise scale that data is almost entirely unstructured. Plans live as drawing sets scattered across semi-autonomous divisions, renamed and re-numbered as they move. Nobody can say with confidence which plans are duplicates, how many versions of a given home exist, or what actually varies between them.

Higharc converts those catalogs into structured, queryable plan data and builds the analysis on top of it: searchable plan libraries with agent-enabled natural-language search, geometric similarity scoring that surfaces plans which have forked under different names, structured mapping of what varies across a library, and classification that makes consolidation decisions possible.

You’ll own what gets built in the field, working embedded alongside our Forward Deployed Engineers and in partnership with the homebuilder to turn plans into actionable data. This is a role for someone who wants to be close to where the problem lives. Higharc is fully remote; you can sit anywhere in the continental U.S., with travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

Expect to:

• Embed with HQ, regional, and division teams to run discovery—locate plan assets, establish source of truth, and document how each division represents its plans and where variation originates.

• Own product definition for the searchable plan library, analytics dashboard, and agent-enabled search—what a good query looks like, what a useful answer looks like, and what “structured for analysis” actually means.

• Tune Higharc’s Autotranslate AI to identify, categorize, and translate floorplans into data.

• Work hands-on with the data: query the structured plan library directly, build against our internal APIs, and ship working capability back to users rather than filing a ticket and waiting.

• Define acceptance criteria for delivery milestones—coverage targets, data-field completeness, QA error thresholds—and hold the line on them when schedule pressure argues otherwise.

• Frame and defend quantifiable ROI: redundancy across a catalog, dimensional spread on repeated conditions, consolidation candidates, and the purchasing leverage each one represents.

• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineering, the Technical Lead, QA, Intake Specialists, and Client Strategy, and present progress and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders.

• Capture the playbooks, artifacts, and data patterns that let the forward deployed model carry over to the next engagement.

About You

You’re a product manager who is happiest closest to the customer, and you’ve learned that the fastest path to the right answer is usually to go look. You’re comfortable being handed a scope that is 70% specified and a data set nobody has structured before. You can hold a conversation with an architect about how a plan set is drawn in the morning and write the query that tests your hypothesis about it in the afternoon.

You know the difference between a demo and a deliverable, and you’re honest with customers about which one they’re looking at.

You have:

• 5+ years of product management experience, including significant time in customer-facing or deployed settings—enterprise implementations, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or professional services.

• Hands-on technical fluency: you write SQL, work in notebooks, script against APIs, and interrogate a data set yourself rather than requesting a pull.

• Experience prototyping to validate ideas quickly using tools like Cursor, Replit, or V0.dev.

• A track record defining structured data models, taxonomies, or classification schemes and getting a business to actually adopt them.

• Strong judgment about data quality—what level of accuracy a decision requires, and what it costs to get there.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, including with executive stakeholders who have limited time and no patience for status without substance.

• Willingness to travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

A major plus if you also bring:

• Background in residential construction, homebuilding, architecture, or AEC technology—especially fluency with plan sets, elevations, options, and how builders manage plan variation.

• Experience with agent-based or natural-language search over structured data, RAG systems, or LLM-powered analytics.

• Exposure to geometric or spatial data—CAD/BIM, computer vision on drawings, similarity and clustering methods.

• Experience with large, messy, enterprise-scale data migrations or ingestion programs.

• Experience building a function from zero: first hire into a new team, new practice, or new delivery model.

Working at Higharc

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.

Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with flexible PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You’ll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven’t worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.