AI Product Manager - SME

What You'll Be Doing:

• Provide SETA advisory support to government leadership and technical teams on AI product strategy, planning, and execution.
• Help define and refine AI use cases, product goals, success criteria, priorities, and delivery roadmaps.
• Guide teams in aligning AI solution development with mission outcomes, user needs, operational constraints, and program objectives.
• Monitor effort execution and help keep teams on track with milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
• Support requirements development, backlog shaping, capability prioritization, and stakeholder coordination.
• Translate between technical teams and non-technical leadership, ensuring shared understanding of what is being built, why it matters, and what risks exist.
• Advise on AI adoption challenges, including scope control, change management, user trust, operational fit, and realistic implementation sequencing.
• Review proposed AI solutions for feasibility, mission relevance, and alignment with available resources and timelines.
• Support briefings, planning artifacts, concept papers, product documentation, and executive communications.
• Help identify when teams need course correction, sharper problem framing, better metrics, or more disciplined execution.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Min 18 years with Bachelors, 15 years with Masters degree in a relevant field such as Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations, or related discipline.
• Experience in product management, technical program support, capability delivery, or requirements management in a government, defense, or complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams building software, data, AI, or digital solutions.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle concepts, roadmap planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, and execution tracking.
• Familiarity with AI concepts, terminology, current capabilities, and practical implementation challenges.
• Able to advise leadership while also engaging productively with engineers and solution teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and briefing skills.
• Software Engineer with coding experience (not required).

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Experience supporting AI, data, analytics, or software modernization efforts.
• Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, DevSecOps, or iterative capability delivery models.
• Ability to understand technical topics such as LLMs, AI tools, cloud platforms, agentic workflows, evaluation, and data dependencies without needing to be a hands-on developer.
• Experience in defense, cyber, or operational mission environments.
• Background in technology strategy, innovation support, requirements development, or portfolio management.

Job Requirements:

• TS/SCI with polygraph is required.