Senior Product Manager, AI

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In 1984 we started out as a team of three engineers based in Ottawa Canada. Today we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world and support 40000 users in over 100 countries. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management we enable supply chain excellence for all industries. We are expanding our team in Chennai and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Our journey in India began in 2020 and we have been growing steadily since then! Building a high-trust and high-performance culture is important to us and we are proud to be Great Place to Work CertifiedTM.Our state-of-the-art office located in the World Trade Centre in Chennai offers our growing team space for expansion and collaboration.

Location

Bangalore India

About the team

The Senior AI Product Manager AI is responsible for defining delivering and scaling AIpowered products platforms or capabilities that are strategically critical and highly visible across the organization.

The incumbent will own endtoend outcomes for complex AIdriven products or product lines where value is delivered through various AI techniques such as machine learning (supervised and unsupervised) deep learning natural language processing and generative AI.

As a trusted advisor to senior leadership the Senior Product Manager AI shapes longterm AI product strategy translates business and user needs into AIspecific product requirements and leads crossfunctional teams through the uncertainty risk and iteration inherent in AIbased systems.

The Senior AI Product Manager is also a leader and mentor within Product Management strengthening AI product practices rigor and credibility across the organization.

What you will do

• In partnership with PM leaders define and evolve a longterm product vision and roadmap for AIpowered products platforms or capabilities aligned to business strategy and customer outcomes.
• Effectively communicate AI product strategy roadmap progress risks and outcomes to executive audiences.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities where AI can deliver meaningful differentiation measurable impact and scalable value.
• Partner closely with AI platform and application engineering teams to prioritize feature development model improvements experimentation and technical debt.
• Contribute to strategic planning product portfolio decisions commercialization and gotomarket strategies for AIenabled offerings.
• Lead controlled rollout of AI products through early innovation programs and phased commercialization incorporating usage data feedback and risk signals to refine autonomy pricing and packaging over time.
• Translate business problems and user needs into AIspecific product requirements
• Verify AI products provide all required functionalities to support customer and business workflows and success criteria ensuring they reflect realworld processes and decision tradeoffs
• Proactively assess and mitigate specific risks including security privacy and compliance
• Conduct in-depth market analyses and competitive research toidentifyopportunities and threats and risks. Leverage insight and analysis to effectively pivot and shape product strategy
• Build deep trusted relationships with customers partners and senior internal stakeholders to inform strategic direction and validate product value.
• Develop partner relationships where AI capabilities are trusted ensuring quality performance and alignment with product standards.

What we are looking for

Primary Skills & Qualifications

• • Bachelors degree in Business Engineering Computer Science Data Science Operations Supply Chain or related field. MBA or relevant advanced degree is an asset.
  • 1520 years of experience in Product Management within a complex global SaaS or technology organization with meaningful ownership of AIenabled products.
  • Strong product leadership experience across the full product lifecycle from discovery and strategy to go-to-market (launch scaling) and optimization.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguous fastevolving problem spaces; able to pivot based on learning data and business priorities.
  • Exceptional analytical criticalthinking and problemsolving skills.
  • Clear confident communicator able to explain complex AI concepts and tradeoffs to senior and executive stakeholders.

RoleSpecific Skills & Experience

• • Demonstrated experience managing AIcentric products (machine learning deep learning NLP intelligent automation or generative AI).
  • Experience or demonstrated leadership in AI Agents agentic workflows or autonomous decision systems beyond singlemodel or predictiononly AI
  • Strong knowledge of AI and machine learning fundamentals
  • Proven ability to define success criteria across AI product engineering user experience and business impact.
  • Experience partnering with Services teams AI and platform engineering and design teams using agile product development practices.
  • Strong financial and business acumen including experience influencing investment decisions prioritization and pricing or packaging strategy.
  • Highly influential leader with a track record of gaining senior stakeholder buyin for complex longterm product strategies.
  • Exceptional relationshipbuilding skills across technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Willingness to travel up to 20%.

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