Machine Learning and AI Opportunities

Sharkninjaoperatingllc; Needham (MA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with matching

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Sharkninjaoperatingllc is seeking an AI Product Manager to own strategy, roadmap, and delivery for AI initiatives. The role requires expertise in product management, particularly in AI features, translating business objectives into actionable steps.

Expect to define an AI roadmap, lead cross-functional teams, and establish KPIs that connect outcomes to performance. The annual salary range is $125,000 – $195,000, with extensive benefits including medical, 401(k) matching, and more.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management with measurable outcomes.
• Experience driving application integrations at enterprise scale.
• Proven ownership of evaluation and experimentation for AI features.

Responsibilities

• Define a 3–9-month AI roadmap aligned to company strategic goals.
• Own evaluation for AI features, including A/B tests.
• Lead squads spanning ML Engineering, MLOps, and Data Engineering.

Skills

Product Management

Data Analysis

Application Integrations

Executive Communication

Cross-Functional Leadership

Job description

AI Product Manager

(Pipeline Opening, not tied to a specific opening.)

The AI Product Manager owns strategy, roadmap, and delivery for AI initiatives across the enterprise. This role translates business objectives into a clear prioritized backlog, collaborating with engineering teams and external partners to deliver impactful solutions that drive measurable business impact through revenue growth or new operational efficiencies. The Product Manager works closely with Global Data Product Management, including Data and MDM, to ensure AI products are built on trusted, standardized data foundations. The role requires strong judgment in application integrations and build vs. buy tradeoffs, balancing speed, cost, and enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Vision: Define a 3–9-month AI roadmap aligned to company strategic goals, with clear problem statements and value hypotheses to maximize value.
• Portfolio & Roadmap: Convert strategy into prioritized increments with PRDs, acceptance criteria, and release plans; keep a transparent backlog.
• Evaluation & Experimentation: Own evaluation for AI features: offline tests, human and automated evaluations, and online A/B experiments to optimize quality, latency, and cost effectiveness. Publish decision logs for model, prompt, and dataset changes.
• Responsible AI & Guardrails: Define safety, privacy, and compliance requirements; implement guardrails and review rituals with Security and Legal; ensure traceability of data, prompts, and outputs.
• Application Integrations: Define product requirements for API‑first and event‑driven integrations across CRM/ERP/eCommerce and data platforms; align on data contracts, SLAs, auth/PII handling, and system observability with Platform teams.
• Build vs Buy: Lead structured trade‑off analyses (TTV, TCO, vendor lock‑in, differentiation, compliance). Run proofs of value with vendors when needed and recommend paths forward, highlighting risks and contingency plans.
• Cross‑Functional Leadership: Lead squads spanning ML Engineering, MLOps, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Business stakeholders; keep scope, risks, and dependencies visible.
• Impact Measurement: Define clear KPIs that connect business outcomes to product performance, and provide executives with simple, actionable reporting against those targets.
• Partnerships: Collaborate with Director, ML and AI, Security, Legal, Procurement, and Global Data Product Management (Data and MDM) to align standards, governance, and delivery.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management with shipped data or AI features tied to measurable outcomes.
• Proven ownership of evaluation and experimentation for AI features (offline metrics, human/auto evaluations, and A/B testing).
• Hands‑on experience driving application integrations at enterprise scale (API‑led and iPaaS patterns, SLAs, data contracts, identity).
• Demonstrated ability to lead build vs. buy decisions, supported by clear financial models and risk analyses.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience optimizing Amazon sales and ad channels.
• Experience with Salesforce Cloud and CDP integrations.
• Exposure to LLMOps practices (prompt versioning, guardrails, eval frameworks), vector search/RAG, or model observability.

Success Metrics (first 12 months)

• AI roadmap approved and in execution within 90 days; at least two AI product increments shipped with adoption targets met.
• Application integrations delivered on time with measurable data quality and reliability improvements.
• At least two major technology decisions completed with a formal build vs. buy analysis and executive approval.
• AI initiatives deliver a minimum 5x ROI on Capex investments, contributing directly to revenue growth.

Salary and Other Compensation

Annual salary range: $125,000 – $195,000 USD.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short‑term and long‑term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre‑paid legal insurance, backup child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation or local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at [e-mail].