Remote AI Systems Product Manager — End-to-End & Trusted

Next Step Systems; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Step Systems seeks a technically adept Technical Product Manager for AI systems. The role is fully remote, collaborating with ML and software engineers to define end-to-end AI system requirements, evaluate models, and drive reliable, user-trusted AI features.

The candidate should have hands-on AI product experience, strong ML fundamentals, and proven ability to balance quality, speed, and cost in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on exposure to AI-powered products, including LLM-based systems.
• Strong grounding in ML fundamentals and how modern AI systems behave in production.
• Experience working with model evaluation, prompt or pipeline iteration, and feedback loops.
• Strong intuition for model limitations, hallucinations, bias, and drift.
• Solid grounding in CS fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures.
• Experience shipping AI-heavy consumer products is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research and define end-to-end AI system requirements from capability to behavior to user impact.
• Translate model capabilities, data constraints, and evaluation results into clear product and system decisions.
• Make hard trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, and UX.
• Work closely with ML, backend, and mobile engineers on system design, evaluation, and iteration.
• Define and evolve evaluation frameworks across offline metrics, online experiments, and human feedback.
• Drive execution with clear specs, strong judgment, and disciplined prioritization.
• Ensure systems ship quickly, safely, and reliably, with strong feedback loops.
• Own product quality end-to-end correctness, predictability, and user trust.

Skills

AI products experience

ML fundamentals

System design

Decision making

Cross-functional leadership

Technical writing

Job description

Next Step Systems seeks a technically adept Technical Product Manager for AI systems. The role is fully remote, collaborating with ML and software engineers to define end-to-end AI system requirements, evaluate models, and drive reliable, user-trusted AI features.

The candidate should have hands-on AI product experience, strong ML fundamentals, and proven ability to balance quality, speed, and cost in a fast-paced environment.