Sr. AI Product Manager

About the role

We are hiring a hands-on Senior Product Manager to lead an AI-driven competitive intelligence and conversational search offering that goes deeper and is more thoughtful than general-purpose chat products. You’ll own strategy and execution—from quarterly planning and metrics to shipping features that extract event services, create derivative datasets, and assemble them into a usable knowledge graph. This role demands commercial instincts (you’ve sold/marketed or articulated product value before), the ability to push and align cross-functional teams, and comfort translating highly technical concepts into crisp, business-ready narratives.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy & roadmap for an AI/agentic, NLP-based competitive benchmarking product, including quarterly planning cycles, OKRs, and outcome-focused metrics.
• Lead data extraction & knowledge graph creation (priority): turn company and people data, event-based signals, and open-web sources into rationalized, factual LLM-ready datasets.
• Deliver a conversational search experience leveraging embeddings (e.g., Solr) and Boolean search; iterate toward more tailored competitive benchmarking queries and workflows.
• Build SaaS AI capabilities on modern architecture—link to legacy portfolio via connectors & APIs rather than rebuilding into legacy products; drive joint ecosystem integrations.
• Translate complex technical concepts (NLP, embeddings, knowledge graphs, LLM orchestration, agentic patterns) into clear value propositions, GTM narratives, and customer outcomes.
• Partner with an ex–data scientist on the team (you don’t need to be a data scientist) to define data requirements, evaluation frameworks, and model choices (e.g., Claude 4.5, potential switch to Gemini).
• Run discovery and validation with professional & financial services users (incl. M&A teams), triangulating company and people data to surface competitive insights.
• Drive execution across engineering, data, design, and GTM; set pace, remove blockers, and hold teams to measurable outcomes.
• Evangelize and sell the story—you’ve previously marketed or articulated product value and can partner with sales/CS to land the value with customers.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in product management with at least 3+ leading AI/ML/NLP or search/knowledge-graph products.
• Proven commercial instinct: you’ve sold/marketed or clearly articulated product value and outcomes to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Strong experience driving teams and shipping; you set clear goals, push for results, and foster collaboration.
• Hands-on familiarity with LLMs (Claude, Gemini), embeddings, NLP, retrieval/search (e.g., vector + Boolean), and agentic patterns/workflows.
• Comfortable planning by quarterly cycles with metrics that drive product work (OKRs, KPIs, experiment roadmaps).
• Ability to simplify technical concepts into executive-ready narratives, PRDs, and customer-facing content.
• Team player, highly impactful; skilled at triangulating company & people data to generate insights.
• Experience with professional/financial services users, especially M&A and competitor landscape analysis.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $70.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Schedule

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Raleigh, NC. Workplace type: hybrid.