Senior AI Product Builder, Inventory Experience

shipbobinc; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ShipBob seeks a Senior AI Product Builder to own the full product loop from discovery to production PR within an AI-native pod. You will lead the catalog and inventory data surface and drive data-quality and adoption across SKUs, variants, bundles, and channels.

You will run customer discovery with AI tools, demo to merchants, analyze metrics, and shape a prioritized roadmap while ensuring architectural fit and effective AI-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI-native product initiatives from discovery through production.
• Ability to define data contracts and product APIs with engineers.
• Strong track record in customer discovery, experimentation, and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the full product loop end-to-end: discovery → story/spec → prototype → production PR → outcome measurement.
• Own the product catalog and inventory data surface end-to-end: SKUs, variants, bundles, lots, and channel sync.
• Run customer discovery yourself and synthesize research with AI tools.
• Demo products to merchants and partners; articulate competitive differentiators.
• Use AI tools to analyze metrics, surface usage patterns, and define kill thresholds.
• Maintain a prioritized roadmap with impact × speed; synthesize market and customer insights.
• Evaluate solution fit to ShipBob's architecture and data structures.
• Route changes through prototype-then-PR; write clear story/specs and review AI-generated code.
• Set hypotheses with explicit kill thresholds and decide on day-7 rollout outcomes.
• Participate in architecture reviews with Engineering as the product judgment seat.

Skills

AI product management

Discovery

Story/specs

Prototype development

Production PRs

Outcome measurement

Roadmap prioritization

Architecture awareness

Data contracts & APIs

Experiment design

Stakeholder demos

Tools

Claude Code

Driver.ai

Job description

As a member of the ShipBob Team, you will...

Grow with an Ownership Mindset : We champion continuous learning and innovation. You'll take on real problems, create tangible solutions, and drive results that move the needle for ShipBob, our merchants, and for your own professional growth. If you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career, this is the place.

Collaborate with Peers and Leaders Alike: At ShipBob, leaders are accessible; feedback flows in both directions, and everyone, regardless of their seniority or role, steps up to help when needed. We hold each other to high standards because we trust each other to meet them. That combination of transparency and mutual respect is what makes the work here feel worth doing.

Experience a High-Performance Culture and Clear Purpose: We are results-driven and clear about what that means: our goals are specific, accountability is shared, and every team member can see how their work connects to our mission. When we hit milestones, we celebrate them together. When we fall short, we learn and move forward.

Location: Remote in these states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, KS, KY, IA, ID, IL, IN, LA, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI

Role Description:

AI Builders is ShipBob's new job family - the deliberate next step for Product Management in the AI-native era. The thesis is simple: when AI tools can generate working code from precise specs, the slowest step is no longer the spec - it is the PM→Engineer handoff. AI Builders close that gap by owning discovery, specs, prototypes, and production PRs themselves, accelerated by an AI-native pod.

As a Senior AI Product Builder at ShipBob, you own the full build loop for your product domain: discovery, story/specs, AI-augmented prototypes, and production-ready PRs. This is not the traditional PM role - you are a builder. You use the AI development toolchain (e.g., Claude Code, Driver.ai) to understand ShipBob's codebase architecture, generate working code against the actual repo, and ship with minimum engineering rework. The minimum technical floor for this role is real: you must read ShipBob's data model, evaluate AI-generated scaffolding for correctness, and write story/specs precise enough that AI tools can act on them without follow-up questions.

Your domain is Product and Inventory Experience - the system of record for what merchants sell and what they have: the product catalog (SKUs, variants, bundles, kits), inventory records across the network, and the receiving flows that bring stock into it. PIX sits upstream of everything in Merchant Tech - forecasting, placement, allocation, and routing all inherit its data quality. When the catalog is wrong, everything downstream is wrong, which makes PIX one of the highest-leverage product surfaces in the company.

This role is for someone energized by speed, uncomfortable with waste, and who measures success by outcomes shipped - not documents approved. You operate in an AI-native pod alongside talented engineers who are ready to support you and push back on solution when needed. This role reports to a Director, AI Product Builder.

What you'll do:

• Own the full product loop end-to-end: AI-augmented discovery → story/spec → prototype → production PR → outcome measurement. You are accountable for the outcome, not just the handoff.
• Own the product catalog and inventory data surface end-to-end: SKUs, variants, bundles, lots, and channel sync. Define the data contracts merchants and partners build against, ship the workflows, and measure data quality and adoption.
• Run customer discovery yourself; use AI tools to synthesize research across tickets, interviews, behavioral data, and competitive signals.
• Demonstrate deep functional and technical knowledge of owned products end-to-end. Demo to merchants and partners yourself; understand competitive landscape and key differentiators.
• Use AI tools to analyze product metrics, identify usage patterns, and surface anomalies. Define success metrics and kill thresholds at spec time - without coaching.
• Maintain a prioritized roadmap ranked by impact × speed. Use AI tools to synthesize competitive intelligence, market trends, and customer insight into strategic inputs.
• Evaluate whether a proposed solution fits ShipBob's architecture without Engineering translation. Understand service boundaries, data structures, and how merchant and partner API usage shapes data contracts.
• Route changes through prototype-then-PR. Write clear story/specs and review AI-generated code before raising. PR promotion rate improves consistently.
• Set experiment hypotheses with explicit kill thresholds. Make day-7 rollout/kill decisions on AI-surfaced data.
• Participate in architecture reviews alongside Engineering as the product judgment seat - the person making the build-vs-buy-vs-defer call on the room's behalf.

Additional duties and responsibilities as necessary.

Your first 90 days:

Days 1-