Senior AI Product Manager / Agent Builder

RK Industries; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

RK Industries in Aurora, Colorado is seeking a Senior AI Product Manager / Agent Builder who can translate operational needs into scalable AI products and measurable business value. You will own AI Agents end-to-end from opportunity through prototype, production, adoption, and value realization.

You’ll collaborate with business leaders, frontline users, and cross-functional teams to design, prototype, evaluate, and deploy AI agents using Microsoft Foundry/Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in software/AI product management.

Responsibilities

• Discover high-value AI opportunities by partnering with business users.
• Own AI Agents end-to-end from prototype to production.
• Prototype agents using Microsoft Foundry/Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio.
• Design enterprise RAG, grounding, tools, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Create rapid prototypes and evaluation harnesses.
• Define evaluation datasets and production standards.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, security, MLOps, and vendors.
• Measure adoption and quantify business value.
• Maintain product ownership as RK builds in-house AI capacity.
• Balance product leadership with hands-on building.

Skills

Product management

AI product experience

Stakeholder alignment

Workflow mapping

Adoption & value

Tools

Microsoft Foundry

Azure AI Foundry

Copilot Studio

Microsoft Fabric

GitHub Copilot

Job description

About the Opportunity

RK Industries is building an enterprise AI Agent capability using Microsoft AI technologies, and we're looking for a Senior AI Product Manager / Agent Builder to help lead the journey.

This is a unique product leader + hands-on builder role for someone who can translate operational needs into scalable AI products that deliver measurable business value.

You'll own enterprise AI Agents from business opportunity through prototype, production, adoption, and measurable business value -starting with RK Mechanical and expanding across RK as our AI capability grows.

About the Role

You are first and foremost an AI Product Manager. You'll work directly with business leaders and frontline users to understand how work gets done, redesign workflows, define the right AI solution, establish evaluation and human-in-the-loop controls, and drive adoption and measurable outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Discover high-value AI opportunities by working directly with business users.
• Own AI Agents end-to-end: problem product prototype evaluation production adoption value.
• Build and iterate agents using Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Design enterprise RAG, grounding, tools, integrations, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Personally create rapid prototypes, lightweight coded agents, integrations, and evaluation harnesses.
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, and comparable coding assistants.
• Define evaluation datasets, acceptance thresholds, and production-quality standards.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Data, Security, Responsible AI, MLOps/LLMOps, Change Management, and external AI development partners.
• Measure adoption and prove business value through revenue generation, time savings, cost avoidance, cycle-time reduction, quality improvement, or risk reduction.
• As RK builds dedicated AI/Agent Engineering capacity, production engineering will progressively transition to those specialists. You'll continue to own the product, agent behavior, evaluation quality, adoption, and business value.
• We're looking for a Product Manager who can build and not necessarily a full-time software engineer.

What We're Looking For

• 5-8+ years of product-management experience in software, data, AI, enterprise SaaS, or related technology environments.
• 2+ years of meaningful AI, generative AI, or AI Agent product experience.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry.
• Hands-on experience with Copilot Studio and practical understanding of Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong understanding of enterprise RAG, grounding, retrieval, and evaluation.
• Experience defining evaluation datasets, acceptance thresholds, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Hands-on prototyping experience using GitHub Copilot, Codex, or comparable AI coding tools.
• Strong product discovery, workflow mapping, roadmap, backlog, adoption, and business-value skills.
• Ability to work comfortably with executives, frontline users, engineers, architects, data teams, security teams, and vendors.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in construction, MEP, specialty contracting, industrial operations, manufacturing, or related domains is a plus.

How We Lead

We expect this role to demonstrate seven leadership principles equally: Ownership | Bias for Action | Earn Trust | Dive Deep | Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit | Invent and Simplify | Insist on the Highest Standards

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to help shape how RK builds enterprise AI from the ground up-combining business-process understanding, product leadership, Microsoft AI platform fluency, hands-on Agent building, evaluation discipline, governance, adoption, and measurable business value

Location: Aurora, Colorado

Working Model: Hybrid - approximately three days per week in the office, with periodic visits to RK Mechanical offices, shops, fabrication facilities, and project sites.

Equal Opportunity Employer

RK Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.

RK Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law