Product Manager, Central Product

Meta; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta in Richmond, Virginia seeks a Product Manager to lead AI-native product initiatives. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, data scientists, and researchers, translating AI capabilities into valuable user experiences and measurable outcomes.

The role emphasizes rapid experimentation, robust roadmaps, and scalable AI best practices. You will define success metrics, guide strategy, and mentor peers while coordinating across partner functions to deliver impactful products in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management
• Experience delivering across product life cycle
• Experience with cross-functional teams and stakeholder coordination
• Experience using AI-enabled tools for prototyping or product development
• Ability to define metrics and drive execution against goals
• Strong communication of complex, technical concepts

Responsibilities

• Lead a product area and define success metrics
• Prioritize problems and identify strategies aligned with goals
• Adapt strategy based on learnings and feedback
• Evaluate when AI is the right solution and articulate tradeoffs
• Translate AI capabilities into compelling product visions
• Develop AI-native strategies including evals and data plans
• Work with cross-functional teams to roadmap and execute
• Foster rapid experimentation and learning in AI-enabled product development
• Scale AI best practices across product teams
• Mentor other Product Managers on AI-native practices
• Coordinate with partner functions for product success
• Communicate strategy and progress clearly to stakeholders

Skills

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decision making

AI-native product development

Experimentation

Roadmapping

Education

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in STEM or related field

Job description

Summary:

Meta Product Managers work with cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, data scientists and researchers to build products. We are looking for Product Managers who value moving quickly and demonstrate AI-native product development practices.

Required Skills:

Product Manager, Central Product Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for leading a product area
2. defining success metrics, prioritizing product problems and identifying the best strategies for the product, aligned with the organizational goals.
3. Adapt and adjust your strategy to reflect learnings and changes in the product.
4. Critically evaluate when AI is (and isn't) the right solution for user problems, with clear articulation of tradeoffs and risks.
5. Translate AI capabilities into compelling product visions grounded in real user value.
6. Develop AI-native strategies including evals strategy and data strategy that enable iteration and measurable quality improvements.
7. Leverage AI for identifying opportunities through deep market research, user feedback synthesis, and competitive analysis.
8. Work with a cross-functional team to define a product, develop a roadmap and drive progress against goals and milestones and resolve challenges and blockers, while maintaining team health.
9. Reimagine workflows, responsibly using AI tools to increase personal and team velocity (e.g., faster synthesis, clearer decision docs, tighter iteration loops).
10. Foster a culture of rapid experimentation and learning, especially around AI-powered product development.
11. Scale AI best practices (including responsible AI use) and proficiency across product teams to multiply impact.
12. Provide mentorship and coaching to other Product Managers and cross-functional team members on AI-native practices.
13. Coordinate proactively across partner functions for product success.
14. Structure shared roadmaps for best outcomes.
15. Orchestrate complex execution across multiple workstreams by combining AI automation with appropriate human oversight.
16. Communicate product strategy and progress with clarity to all stakeholders.
17. Use AI-enabled tools - prototyping, validating, or shipping tangible artifacts independently.
18. Interpret research and state-of-the-art learnings to design product strategy and apply logical reasoning.
19. Understand system/architecture trade-offs and how they impact user experience and business priorities and engage credibly with engineering partners on constraints and decisions.
20. Design experiments and interpret results (leveraging AI to accelerate analysis) and turn insights into concrete decisions.
21. Define and run evaluations (evals) to interpret model outputs and adjust execution based on learnings - treating evaluation as a first-class product practice.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 5+ years of relevant industry experience with at least 2 years in Product Management
2. Bachelor's degree (or relevant degree equivalent): STEM subject ideal but not essential (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences)
3. Experience working with a cross-functional product team on a significant product area: Crafting product vision and strategy, defining product requirements, coordinating resources from other groups (marketing, legal, etc.), and driving the team to achieve key milestones and goals
4. Experience managing a product through multiple product life cycle phases
5. Proven experience to drive a material change in the performance of a product and the effectiveness of the team that delivers that product
6. Demonstrated experience to analyze large scale, complex data sets and making effective decisions based on data
7. Experience using AI-enabled tools to build product, prototypes, or other tangible product artifacts
8. Demonstrated ability to develop AI-native strategies including evals and data strategies
9. Experience integrating a diverse set of requirements from a broad set of users as well as context into a single coherent product strategy
10. Experience leading and motivating a product team and collaborating with partner teams
11. Demonstrated experience in communication, bringing extreme clarity to complex and technical messages at the appropriate level for the audience

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
2. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
3. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Public Compensation:

$146,000/year to $204,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

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