Forward Deployed Product Manager, AI Agent

Cresta; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Remote stipend

Wellness stipend

Meal program

Commuter benefit

Job summary

Cresta is seeking a Forward Deployed Product Manager for AI Agents to design, deploy, and optimize client-facing AI agents that drive customer outcomes. You will own the agent lifecycle from pre-sale to post-launch, work with Forward Deployed Engineers, and partner with product and engineering to build impactful solutions.

You'll lead customer relationships, run workshops with stakeholders, and help scale playbooks and capabilities while balancing speed and quality in a fast-growing SaaS

Qualifications

• 5+ years in tech consulting, implementations, product, or CS roles with AI exposure.
• Hands-on, action-oriented with urgency and care.
• Experience leading complex deployments and senior stakeholders.
• Strong systems thinking and experience building AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Own AI Agent outcomes and define metrics that move the needle.
• Manage deployment lifecycle from scoping to post-go-live optimization.
• Collaborate with FDEs and engineers to build and optimize AI Agents.
• Lead customer relationships and be the primary point of contact.
• Run workshops with stakeholders to align on use cases and success criteria.
• Improve playbooks for agent development and deployment.

Skills

Tech consulting

Product management

Customer success

AI familiarity

Cross-functional

Job description

Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta's unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world's leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world's leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta's leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences. Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.

About the Role

As a Forward Deployed Product Manager, AI Agent , you will create, deploy and optimize AI Agents that transform our customers' businesses and delight their customers. This highly cross-functional and customer-facing role blends product thinking, a nose for value, and project leadership with senior customer executives. At the end of the day, you own each AI Agent and the outcomes they drive for our customers, and you take that personally. You are a creative, pragmatic problem solver who thrives in fast-paced environments, rolls up your sleeves to build, and excels at turning ambiguity into execution. In this role, you'll partner with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) who will support the build, integrations and optimization to make the AI Agent product successful. You'll also work closely with product and engineering, providing a tight feedback loop and custom tooling that will shape the future of our platform.

What You'll Do

• Own AI Agent outcomes for our customers — defining and delivering on the metrics that move the needle. This includes finding additional automation opportunities that can provide even more value! To do this, you'll…
• Own the deployment lifecycle for AI Agents — from pre-sale scoping and kickoff to launch and post-go-live optimization
• Design, build, test and iterate on AI agents in partnership with FDEs using Creta's internal tools and the latest technologies to deliver the highest customer ROI
• Lead customer relationships and act as the primary point of contact for AI Agent. Help prospects and customers move faster to ensure we can deliver quickly and effectively.
• Facilitate workshops and design sessions with customer stakeholders to align on agent use cases, workflows, and success criteria while gathering feedback to improve the AI agent platform
• Work closely with FDEs to ensure smooth implementation, build new capabilities as needed and provide feedback and improvements to our broader platform
• Improve our playbooks for agent development and customer deployment

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in Technology Consulting, Implementations, Product, or Customer Success roles, ideally working closely with AI or LLM first products
• Hands-on work style - curiosity with a bias for action. You anticipate needs and bottlenecks and deliver with urgency and care.
• Experience leading complex deployments, owning customer relationships (including senior customer stakeholders), and working cross-functionally
• Strong technical understanding, systems thinking and exposure to building Agents (not necessarily conversational, personal projects count!)
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and learning quickly in a dynamic startup environment
• Passion for AI, automation, and shaping the future of customer experience

Bonus Points

• Background in product management, conversation design or forward deployed engineering roles
• Experience in a startup or high-growth SaaS environment
• Familiarity with customer support and contact center operations

Perks & Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and people-first benefits package to support you at work and in life:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with plans to fit you and your family
• Flexible PTO to take the time you need, when you need it
• Paid parental leave for all new parents welcoming a new child
• Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
• Remote work setup budget to help you create a productive home office
• Monthly wellness and communication stipend to keep you connected and balanced
• In-office meal program and commuter benefits provided for onsite employees

Compensation at Cresta

Compensation at CretaCreta's approach to compensation is simple: recognize impact, reward excellence, and invest in our people. We offer competitive, location-based pay that reflects the market and what each individual brings to the table.The posted base salary range represents what we expect to pay for this role in a given location. Final offers are shaped by factors like experience, skills, education, and geography. In addition to base pay, total compensation includes equity and a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family.OTE Range : $170,000-$280,000 + Offers Equity

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