Blank Metal
AI Product Leader
1mo ago
USASenioragileuser storiessprint planningdata governancecompliance
Lead product delivery, client engagement, and applied AI strategy for multiple concurrent AI-driven projects.
Responsibilities
- The AI Product Leader sits at the intersection of product delivery, engagement leadership, and applied AI strategy. In practice it looks like: ~40% product delivery, ~40% client leadership, ~20% AI strategy. You will lead 2–3 concurrent engagements and be accountable for shipping, adoption, and measurable impact.
Nice to have
- Evaluation harnesses, red-team testing, or model monitoring in production.
- Regulated environments (healthcare/finance/insurance) and security/compliance constraints.
- Change management: rollout, enablement, adoption metrics. Professional services experience, especially fixed-price or outcome-based delivery.
Conditions
- Competitive base salary with a revenue-based variable comp structure — when the company wins, you win. We offer comprehensive health coverage, 401(k) with match, flexible time off, flexible work arrangements, and support for professional development.
Other
- DEPARTMENT Product
- LOCATION Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)
- TYPE Full time
- REPORTS TO Head of Product
- Own backlogs, prioritization, and sprint execution across 2–3 engagements.
- Run standups, planning, retros, and cross-team coordination with engineering/design/data.
- Write crisp user stories and acceptance criteria; make trade-offs under real constraints.
- Ensure production readiness: security, compliance, data governance, deployment, and operational runbooks.
- Drive post-launch iteration using user feedback, telemetry, and KPI performance.
- Lead client working sessions and check-ins; steer decision-making with exec and practitioner stakeholders.
- Translate ambiguity into clear plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Own delivery health: scope, risks, dependencies, and expectation management.
- Partner with the engagement lead/account team on renewals/expansions and executive readouts (no hard sales quota).
- Help clients choose the right approach: workflow redesign, retrieval, tool use, evaluation strategy, rollout.
- Design evaluation and measurement: rubrics, golden datasets, offline/online testing, and monitoring plans.
- Make practical architecture-level recommendations with engineers (you don’t have to be the architect).
- Stay current on model capabilities/limits and translate that into realistic product decisions.
- You have shipped software to production and can point to what you built, what changed, and how it performed.
- You can run delivery: budget, backlog, sprints, trade-offs, and stakeholder alignment (without hiding behind process).
- You are fluent in modern GenAI patterns (prompting, RAG basics, evaluation, iteration) and have hands-on experience using tools to build prototypes or workflows.
- You thrive in ambiguity: starting with incomplete requirements, making decisions with imperfect information, and adapting as you learn.
- Client leadership can be external clients or internal “enterprise clients” where you owned budget, outcomes, timelines, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience with AI-powered low-code platforms (V0, Bolt, Lovable) for rapid prototyping and stakeholder demos
- AI experience can be GenAI product work or adjacent data/ML product work plus clear hands-on GenAI experimentation in the last 12 months.
- AI/GenAI Product Manager who has also led enterprise delivery and exec stakeholders.
- Engagement Manager/Delivery Lead from a SaaS/AI product company who has shipped software and can do product thinking.
- Senior Product Owner/TPM with strong stakeholder leadership plus clear GenAI build/eval work.
- You only want strategy work and don’t want to own shipping, iteration, and operational realities.
- You prefer low-ambiguity roles with highly mature processes or narrow ownership.
- You want people management or practice leadership right now.
- You are remote-only and not able to travel to MSP regularly.
- Blank Metal is an AI-native engineering company that partners with enterprises to deliver production AI fast. We blend strategic insight with hands-on execution, shipping high-impact systems that turn AI initiatives into measurable business results.
- We’re builders, not theorists. Our team of seasoned engineers, designers, and strategists work across industries to create AI applications that actually get used and make a difference.
- Blank Metal is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all backgrounds and perspectives. Diversity makes our work better and our team stronger.
- blankmetal.ai