Senior AI Product Manager: Creative Automation

Skechers; Manhattan Beach (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Skechers in Southern California seeks a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead the AI initiative portfolio across Product, E-commerce, and Creative teams. You will translate requests into bounded pilots, secure approvals, and define success metrics.

You will drive adoption, ensure governance with Legal, Privacy, and Information Security, and deliver end-to-end outcomes with named owners and measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of technical product management or technical program delivery experience, including AI/ML or automation products.
• Demonstrated experience shipping at least one AI-enabled workflow into sustained use, including evaluation criteria, human review, failure handling, monitoring, and operational ownership.
• Working technical fluency: reading API documentation, JSON payloads, authentication and access scopes, data cardinality and lineage; SQL or Python preferred.
• Familiarity with generative AI systems and capabilities; experience with creative/content systems is a plus.
• Demonstrated cross-functional initiative delivery in complex orgs with multiple stakeholders.
• Knowledge of AI governance and compliance frameworks (privacy assessments, vendor risk, EU AI Act) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI initiative portfolio and roadmap: run discovery with creative and business teams, prioritize against business strategy, and identify reusable platform and data capabilities across requests.
• Convert incoming AI requests into bounded pilots with explicit scope, success metrics, decision dates, and named business owners.
• Maintain a disciplined portfolio: enforce WIP limits, sequence initiatives against dependencies, and stop projects without a viable path to adoption.
• Secure prerequisites before builds expand: data access, system-owner alignment, security and privacy approvals, and stakeholder decisions.
• Translate validated prototypes into requirements, rollout plans, and operational ownership, ensuring every workflow ships with a named owner and support path.
• Define success metrics and evaluation criteria for AI workflows with the Creative Technology Team’s technical lead, and track post-launch outcomes: adoption, reliability, quality, cycle time, unit cost, support load, and realized business value.
• Coordinate AI governance readiness under Legal, Privacy, and Information Security: privacy intake, vendor security review, and regulatory readiness tracking (EU AI Act).
• Partner with system owners to coordinate data access and convert recurring requests into standing, read-only processes.
• Drive cross-functional meetings, dependencies, risks, and follow-ups across Creative, tech partners, security, legal, and vendors.
• Support adoption of shipped workflows through documentation and enablement.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

AI/ML experience

Technical product management

Cross-functional leadership

SQL or Python

Generative AI familiarity

E-commerce/content systems

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Skechers in Southern California seeks a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead the AI initiative portfolio across Product, E-commerce, and Creative teams. You will translate requests into bounded pilots, secure approvals, and define success metrics.

You will drive adoption, ensure governance with Legal, Privacy, and Information Security, and deliver end-to-end outcomes with named owners and measurable business value.