Senior Product Manager – AI Platform

Jobtailor; Peabody (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking a Senior Leader to own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for an AI-First Platform. You will transform traditional apps into AI-native offerings and set a long-range plan for personalized experiences and automated workflows.

The role requires deep software industry experience, strong leadership, and the ability to translate market insights into scalable platform capabilities, collaborating across engineering, sales, and customer success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field; MBA a plus.
• 12 years of industry experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Deep experience in the software industry.
• AI & data experience in the last 5 years a must-have.
• Supply chain industry experience a plus.
• Demonstrated experience managing and leading high performing teams.
• Experience defining shared software platform capabilities and managing portfolios of products across related workflows.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with world-class execution skills.
• Ability to lead by influencing in all directions internal and external to an organization.
• Comfortable navigating through ambiguity and making data-drive trade-off and prioritization decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage executives, partners, customers, teams, and colleagues.
• Willingness to travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the AI-First Platform and lead transformation to AI-native applications.
• Establish long-term vision for personalized experiences, configurable apps, and automated processes.
• Conduct deep customer discovery to understand workflows, pains, jobs-to-be-done, and AI use cases.
• Translate customer/market insights into reusable platform capabilities.
• Identify AI, automation, and workflows opportunities delivering customer value and differentiation.
• Ensure platform capabilities address business problems across design, compliance, procurement, supply chain, and ops workflows.
• Prioritize investments based on customer value, differentiation, scalability, and business impact.
• Partner with Engineering, AI, Architecture, UX, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.
• Drive roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, and product launches.
• Establish success metrics and monitoring for adoption, engagement, outcomes, and value realization.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Team leadership

Influencing

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Technical Field

MBA

Tools

AI-Native Platform

Product Roadmap Planning

Data-Driven Decision Making

Portfolio Management

Workflow Optimization

Job description

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the company's AI-First Platform
• Lead the transformation from traditional applications to an AI-native platform
• Establish a long-term vision for personalized experiences, configurable applications, and automated business processes
• Conduct deep customer discovery to understand workflows, pain points, jobs-to-be-done, and emerging AI use cases
• Translate customer and market insights into reusable platform capabilities
• Identify opportunities where AI, automation, and intelligent workflows create customer value and competitive differentiation
• Ensure platform capabilities address business problems across design, compliance, procurement, supply chain, and operations workflows
• Prioritize investments based on customer value, strategic differentiation, scalability, and business impact
• Partner with Engineering, AI, Architecture, UX, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
• Drive roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, and product launches
• Establish success metrics and monitoring frameworks for adoption, engagement, business outcomes, and customer value realization

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in a technical field; MBA a plus
• 12 years of industry experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8 years of experience with an advanced degree
• Deep experience in the software industry
• AI & data experience in the last 5 years a must-have
• Supply chain industry experience a plus
• Demonstrated experience managing and leading high performing teams
• Experience defining shared software platform capabilities and managing portfolios of products across related workflows
• Strong strategic thinking combined with world-class execution skills
• Ability to lead by influencing in all directions internal and external to an organization
• Comfortable navigating through ambiguity and making data-drive trade-off and prioritization decisions
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage executives, partners, customers, teams, and colleagues
• Willingness to travel as required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading the vision and strategy for AI-native platforms, with a strong focus on customer insights, product execution, and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to drive transformation in software capabilities while ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer value.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• AI & Data Experience
• Strategic Thinking
• High Performing Team Management
• Software Platform Capabilities
• Exceptional Communication Skills

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• AI-Native Platform Development
• Product Roadmap Planning
• Data-Driven Decision Making
• Portfolio Management
• Customer Discovery
• Automated Business Processes
• Workflow Optimization
• Performance Metrics Establishment
• Execution Skills
• Compliance Management

Soft Skills

• Influencing Skills
• Navigating Ambiguity
• Engagement with Executives
• Collaboration
• Team Leadership

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Technical Field
• MBA

Industry Keywords

• Software Industry
• Supply Chain Industry
• Customer Value Realization
• Business Impact
• Configurable Applications