Here is your AI Product Manager job description template
I previously explained why the AI Product Manager is the hardest position to fill on your AI team.
A few CEOs and hiring managers asked me for a good AI Product Manager job description. Unfortunately … I didn’t find any I liked. So I decided to write one.
Feel free copy, edit, or tell your boss you wrote it — no rights reserved, it’s yours.
Assumptions:
- Your AI team will be delivering an API or data service to internal stakeholders or close external partners. That is, you’re not a startup product company looking for a traditional software product manager.
- Your AI product manager has limited access to data scientists.
Job description — AI Product Manager
About OurCompany/OurTeam
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Welcome to your new career opportunity in AI
AI is a fundamental, transformational technology like the Internet, personal computers, and electricity. This position is your opportunity to get into AI during these chaotic early and exciting times.
The AI Product Manager is a new role and the first of its kind at our company. You will have the opportunity to help chart our AI strategy by working with our stakeholders to define the problems we are solving with AI. You will design the specifications and data AI programmers need to deploy AI products. To succeed you must become an expert in AI and in our business domain.
Responsibilities
- Work with executives and business line stakeholders to define the problems to solve with AI. Help prioritize and rank the solutions, develop business cases.
- Corral and organize experts from business lines, data scientists, and engineers to create shared goals and specs for AI products.
- Perform gap analysis on existing data. Identify new data sources.
- Develop and manage training, validation, and test data sets.
- Help stakeholders productionize results of AI products.
- Develop AI product roadmaps and timelines.
Skills & experience
- At least 5 years experience working on enterprise products as a lead developer, data scientist manager, or product manager. 10 years experience preferred.
- Experience defining and developing a new product or service.
- Demonstrated commitment to learning about AI through your own initiatives through courses, books, or side projects.
- Basic statistics skills acquired through academic study (i.e. math, computer science, engineering, economics, physics) or comparable work experience.
Is this job for you?
Could you — and would you enjoy — designing a Kaggle contest?
Kaggle contests are similar to AI product specifications and a good example of the detail AI programmers need. Visit https://www.kaggle.com/ and review a few contests.
Would you be able to…?
- Work with executives and business stakeholders to define a contest goals?
- Communicate those goals to programmers?
- Develop the data sets?
- Evaluate results?
If the answer to every question is “yes”, then you might be a good fit for the job.
Have you learned about AI on your own?
You will have to become an expert in building and deploying AI products through self-study and on-the-job training. You will need to find these educational resources and work with your supervisor for training budget and time.
Do you want direction on what you need to study? If so this job isn’t for you.
Are you ok with ambiguous goals and uncertainty?
We have a number of prospective AI projects. A major responsibility of this job is helping our leadership evaluate them and identifying the top candidates. You should expect prioritizes and direction to change as we begin adopting AI.
Do you have experience working in dynamic environments (such as a startup)? Are you excited by ambiguous goals and changing requirements?
If you value predictability and stability this is the wrong job for you.
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