Staff Product Manager, AI Developer Platform

JLL; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL is seeking a Senior staff-level product leader to drive AI platform initiatives, owning end-to-end pipelines, agents, and developer tooling. You will collaborate with engineering leaders, security, and architects to ship practical platform capabilities at scale.

Remote-friendly role in the US with leadership responsibility across distributed teams, measured by production impact, time-to-first-production for agents/services, and backlog velocity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management or technical leadership at Staff IC level.
• Hands-on LLM/agent building experience with MCP and tool calling.
• Track record delivering platforms developers choose to use.
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, cloud runtime trade-offs, and internal tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering and SREs across deployment pipelines and agents.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, and security to Found this function.
• Define and ship platform capabilities for observability, governance, and cost attribution.

Skills

Staff IC product leadership

LLM and agent building

Platform/tooling adoption

CI/CD & IaC expertise

Distributed systems experience

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented peopleand empowering them tothrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you've got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you're looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

Your Impact

Build automated create, UAT, and production pipelines for every app and service on the platform, with the deepest investment in MCP servers and agents. Observability and governance are included by default.

Keep every team current as packages, services, and skills change, without extra work on their end.

Stay close to the teams building on the platform, agents especially, find where they lose time, and turn that into a platform capability.

After a team's first deploy, give them tracing, evals, and cost attribution by default, and build governance into the pipeline itself, so they stay compliant automatically.

Stay hands-on: write the spec, the prototype, the skill, sometimes the PR, while directing the team.

You’re measured on: agents running in production and still improving, time to a team's first production agent or service, how fast the pipeline improves, and how fast the general platform backlog moves.

What You Bring

• 8+ years in product management or technical product leadership on platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling products, at the Staff IC level.

• Hands-on LLM and agent building (agents, MCP, tool calling) that you personally do.

• A track record of creating platforms developers actually chose to use.

• CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, cloud runtime trade-offs, and internal engineering tooling (GitHub Actions at scale, dependency management, developer portals). Comfortable holding a technical position with architects and security under pressure.

• Experience in a large, distributed, global company.

Preferred Experience

• AWS (especially Bedrock), Kubernetes, Terraform, or GitOps

• SDLC and Architecture-governance processes

• Harness engineering/AiDLC

• LLM observability and eval tooling (OTEL, eval frameworks, cost attribution)

• Internal developer platforms or golden paths at enterprise scale, including Backstage

• Architecture-governance processes

The Team

Reporting to the Head of Product, AI Platform. You'll lead a dedicated team of engineers and SREs across the platform (deployment pipelines for every app and service, agents most of all), partnering daily with engineering leaders, principal architects, and security. We're AI-native: we automate our own work and expect you to do the same. You're founding this function. We prioritize shipping working code over long planning cycles.

This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Expected compensation for this position

150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD per year

Final compensation packages are determined by various considerations including but not limited to candidate qualifications, location, market conditions, and internal considerations.

Location

Remote -Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA

Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth

JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these benefits include:

• 401(k) plan with matching company contributions

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care

• Paid parental leave at 100% of salary

• Paid Time Off and Company Holidays

• Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay

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