Robots and Pencils

Robots and Pencils

Technical Product Manager

US - Remote · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonElasticsearchAWSLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationProduct ManagementProduct StrategyAgileStakeholder ManagementPRDsResearchLeadership

About the role

  • As a Staff PM, you're accountable for initiative-level outcomes, stakeholder satisfaction, and contributing to R&P's AI product practice.

Responsibilities

  • Design and run experiments - POCs, pilot deployments, scenario-based testing of multi-step workflows, edge cases, and failure recovery - to validate agentic solutions where non-deterministic output makes traditional QA insufficient
  • Agent Design, Prototyping & Production
  • partner with engineering on context management - summarization, working memory, and information flow across multi-step tasks
  • Define agent behavior and prototype system prompts and tool schemas; partner with engineering on context management - summarization, working memory, and information flow across multi-step tasks
  • Drive multi-model architecture tradeoffs with engineering - define the quality, cost, and latency targets that determine which model serves each step in the agent workflow
  • Build AI prototypes to validate hypotheses; define human-in-the-loop boundaries and guardrails - when the agent acts autonomously, when it escalates, and how to handle non-deterministic output
  • Establish agent evaluation frameworks - task completion, reasoning quality, tool selection, failure recovery, safety - and partner with engineering on production readiness (observability, drift, responsible AI, prompt versioning)
  • Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery through phased rollouts; establish the metrics framework (north star, input, guardrail metrics) and report product impact to leadership
  • Manage the product backlog, scope, dependencies, and risks; drive agile ceremonies and produce high-quality PRDs, product briefs, and decision logs
  • Evaluate technology and platform decisions from a product perspective; create deployment playbooks, reference architectures, and knowledge transfer materials so teams sustain solutions independently

Requirements

  • 8-12+ years in product management, forward deployment, or solutions engineering
  • must have shipped AI products from prototype through production at scale

Nice to have

  • Software engineering or coding background (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript)
  • Agency or consulting delivery experience
  • Familiarity with open-source LLM ecosystem (Llama, Mistral) for flexibility and cost optimization
  • Prior experience leading time-boxed discovery initiatives or technical spikes with rapid validation cycles
  • You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and real enterprise impact - helping clients deploy Generative and Agentic AI solutions that change how their businesses operate.
  • The team is collaborative, technically sharp, and genuinely invested in doing great work for clients.

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