Sr. Technical Product Manager - Creative AI & 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

Who We Are

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

About The Role

The Senior Technical Product Manager sits at the intersection of creative strategy and AI execution, serving as the bridge between Skechers\' Product, E-commerce/Digital, Social, Advertising, and Creative teams and the Creative Technology Team\'s AI production platform.

This role owns product delivery for AI initiatives end to end: shaping the portfolio and roadmap, turning requests into bounded pilots, securing data access and stakeholder decisions before builds expand, defining success metrics, and driving every initiative to operational closure with a named owner.

Accountability boundaries: engineering owns implementation; Security, Privacy, and Legal own their respective approvals; business owners own adoption and ongoing operations. This role owns portfolio outcomes and drives those parties to explicit, timely decisions.

What You\'ll Do

• 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 work-in-progress limits, sequence initiatives against dependencies, and stop projects without a viable path to adoption.
• Secure the 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 in partnership 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 the direction of Legal, Privacy, and Information Security: privacy impact assessment intake, vendor security review packages, and regulatory readiness tracking (e.g., EU AI Act transparency obligations).
• Partner with system owners across the organization to coordinate data access, preserving existing systems of record while converting recurring one-off requests into standing, approved, read-only processes.
• Drive cross-functional meetings, dependencies, risks, and follow-ups across Creative, technology partners, security, legal, and vendor stakeholders.
• Support adoption of shipped workflows through documentation and targeted enablement.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills & Requirements

• 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, assessed during interviews: reading API documentation and JSON payloads, reasoning about authentication and access scopes, understanding data cardinality and lineage, and reviewing data-flow diagrams; working SQL or Python preferred.
• Familiarity with generative AI systems (large language models and image/video generation) sufficient to reason about capabilities, limits, and evaluation.
• Experience with creative and content systems (DAM, PIM, CMS, e-commerce content, or media production pipelines) preferred.
• Demonstrated record of driving cross-functional initiatives to operational closure in organizations with established systems and multiple stakeholders.
• Familiarity with AI governance and compliance frameworks (privacy impact assessments, vendor risk review, EU AI Act) strongly preferred.
• Bachelor\'s or Master\'s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Self-directed and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment.

The pay range for this position is $160,000-$180,000/yr USD.

About Skechers

Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

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