Forward Deployed Product Manager, Internal Tools & Automation

Vibehackers

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Health Insurance

Equity (options)

401(k) with employer match

Parental leave

HSA/FSA

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Giga Energy is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Manager focusing on internal tools and automation. You will embed with operators, define core records, and partner with engineers to build integrations, deterministic automations, and AI-assisted workflows that improve speed, accuracy, and visibility.

The role emphasizes hands-on prototyping, data-driven decision making, and ownership of the business outcome, roadmap, and adoption across distributed stakeholders.

Qualifications

Experience owning an internal product or cross-functional workflow from ambiguity to delivery and measurable results.
Ability to surface undocumented rules, exceptions, and ownership gaps.
Fluency with relational data concepts and data quality considerations.
Ability to write and review SQL to inspect and validate operational data.
Familiarity with APIs, integrations, and failure handling.

Responsibilities

Discover and document critical workflows with operators.
Define records, identifiers, lifecycle states, and decision rules.
Use data to reconcile records and test assumptions.
Map information flows across systems, spreadsheets, APIs, and handoffs.
Prototype deterministic automation or AI-assisted workflows with proper review paths.
Sequence changes and tools into small, measurable releases.
Write workflow briefs, data contracts, and acceptance criteria.
Partner with engineers on architecture while owning outcomes and adoption.
Lead rollout, training, migration, and support planning.
Measure releases by cycle time, accuracy, and visibility.
Maintain permissions, auditability, and data-handling controls.
Maintain a roadmap prioritized by value and risk.

Skills

Cross-functional ownership

Process discovery

SQL proficiency

APIs & integrations

Product judgment

Collaboration with engineers

Written communication

Workflow automation

AI-assisted workflows

Job description

Forward Deployed Product Manager, Internal Tools & Automation

Builds AI-assisted workflows and prototypes with AI agents; rapid experimentation with AI in internal tooling.

About the Role

Giga Energy is hiring a Forward Deployed Product Manager to build internal tools, integrations, automations, and AI-assisted workflows that make physical operations reliable and fast. You will embed with operators, define records and decision rules, and partner with engineers to deliver measurable improvements in cycle time, accuracy, and visibility.

Job Description

Role

Forward Deployed Product Manager, Internal Tools & Automation focused on Business Systems & Automation. Embed with operators to discover how work actually happens, define core records and decision rules, and partner with engineers to deliver integrations, deterministic automations, AI-assisted workflows, and internal tools that improve speed, accuracy, and visibility.

Key Responsibilities

Discover and document critical workflows by working directly with operators.
Define records, identifiers, lifecycle states, owners, decision rules, and exceptions that make workflows reliable.
Use SQL and direct data inspection to reconcile records, test assumptions, and identify data-quality issues.
Map information flows across systems, spreadsheets, documents, APIs, and manual handoffs.
Identify where deterministic automation or AI assistance can improve outcomes; prototype with permissions, human review, and failure paths.
Sequence changes, integrations, automations, and tools into small releases that deliver measurable outcomes.
Write workflow briefs, requirements, data contracts, acceptance criteria, and decision records.
Partner with engineers on architecture and delivery while owning the business outcome, roadmap, and adoption.
Lead rollout, training, migration, and support planning; retire replaced workarounds.
Measure releases by cycle time, accuracy, visibility, control, and manual effort.
Establish practical permissions, auditability, and data-handling controls.
Maintain a roadmap prioritized by business value, risk, dependencies, readiness to adopt, and engineering capacity.
Keep distributed stakeholders aligned through concise writing, clear decisions, and focused sessions.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience owning a cross-functional workflow or internal product from ambiguity to delivery, adoption, and measurable results.
Strong process-discovery skills and ability to surface undocumented rules, exceptions, and ownership gaps.
Practical fluency with relational data concepts (entities, identifiers, joins, grain, relationships, lifecycle states, lineage, data quality).
Ability to write and review SQL to inspect, join, reconcile, and validate operational data.
Working knowledge of APIs, integrations, authentication, events/webhooks, failure handling, and system boundaries.
Strong product judgment to scope releases and prioritize what to build or decline.
Experience collaborating with software engineers while owning business outcomes and adoption.
Track record of influencing teams whose priorities you do not directly control.
Clear written communication and ability to build trust with operators, leaders, and technical teams remotely.
Hands-on experience designing, prototyping, or shipping workflow automation, including AI-assisted tools, with judgment about deterministic logic vs. AI vs. human review.

Nice-to-have / Bonus

Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, logistics, construction, or project delivery.
Experience connecting commercial, operational, procurement, and financial records.
Familiarity with NetSuite, HubSpot, order-management or procurement platforms, or RFQ workflows.
Experience building internal products, data products, enterprise applications, or operational platforms.
Experience improving data quality in live operations and retiring spreadsheets/local tools.
Familiarity with role-based access control, auditability, and secure read/write interfaces.
Hands-on experimentation with AI agents and local/hosted/hybrid model architectures and a reasoned point of view on reliability, permissions, observability, cost, and maintenance.

Where you’ll work

This is a full-time, 100% remote role with no recurring office requirement. Slight preference for candidates based in or near Austin, Texas, but candidates may work from any location where Giga can employ them. Occasional travel may be required for company onsites, discovery, or major rollouts.

Fully remote role with occasional on-sites
Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
Equity (options)
401(k) with 4% employer match
Unlimited PTOParental leave
Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA or HSA
Commuter benefits (where applicable)

How we work

Move quickly on reversible decisions, document decisions, raise risks early, communicate directly, and follow through. Emphasis on ownership, practical risk management, and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Product Management Process Discovery Data Analysis Stakeholder Management Cross-functional Collaboration Requirements Writing Roadmapping Change Management Adoption and Training Systems Thinking Automation Design AI-assisted Workflows Integration Design Written Communication Measuring KPIs Vendor Management Permissions and Auditability

Experience Level

Senior

Employment Type

Full Time