Senior Product Manager, AI-Driven Manufacturing Platform

Instrumental Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); Vor Ort; USD 210.000 - 298.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental coverage

Commuter plans

Parental leave

Zusammenfassung

Instrumental is seeking a Lead Product Manager in the Bay Area to own product strategy and outcomes for our Manufacturing Acceleration Platform. You will collaborate with engineers solving complex problems and translate domain expertise into software, hardware, and services that improve yield and throughput.

Travel up to 25% is possible as you define priorities, roadmaps and measurable value for customers and internal teams.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years hands-on product management or founder experience in early- or mid-stage startup with significant ownership of a product offering.
• Demonstrated ability to devote 20%+ time weekly to direct customer engagement and incorporate customer feedback into product practice.
• Proven trust-building with technical customers; manufacturing or industrial AI experience not strictly required.
• Strong data mindset; proficient with data analysis, statistics basics, and querying databases.
• Strong product taste and storytelling; ability to prioritize and build conviction for product direction.
• Experience operating at the AI tooling frontier and enabling data-driven collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Aufgaben

• Know the customer: investigate workflows, equipment, data, and constraints with customer engineers; inform prioritization and storytelling; travel up to 25%.
• Deliver on business objectives: set clear targets for product performance, market fit, and value; drive towards them.
• Work in public: share priorities, trade-offs, success criteria, roadmaps, and decisions across the org.
• Prototype and simplify: prototype with AI and run field trials; test assumptions and iterate quickly.
• Define quality and trust: build evals with domain experts; ensure outputs are verifiable and recoverable with human approval where needed.
• Enable independent creation: build reusable guidance with clear ownership; turn field learnings into repeatable capabilities.
• Follow through: track outcomes, remove deployment barriers, and learn from failures to improve.

Kenntnisse

Startup experience

Customer focus

Data fluency

AI tools literacy

Industry knowledge

Tools

Spreadsheets

SQL

Databases

Jobbeschreibung

Instrumental is seeking a Lead Product Manager in the Bay Area to own product strategy and outcomes for our Manufacturing Acceleration Platform. You will collaborate with engineers solving complex problems and translate domain expertise into software, hardware, and services that improve yield and throughput.

Travel up to 25% is possible as you define priorities, roadmaps and measurable value for customers and internal teams.