Principal Product Manager – AI

As a Principal Product Manager AI you will lead the vision strategy and execution of AI products across AECOM. This role ensures AI solutions deliver measurable business value align with organizational priorities and scale across the enterprise.

AI is a transformative force for improving efficiency innovation and knowledge access across AECOM. Without strong product leadership AI initiatives risk duplication fragmented delivery and misaligned roadmaps. This role ensures AI capabilities evolve as a cohesive portfolio by prioritizing reusable solutions aligning delivery to strategic goals and maintaining consistent standards for product quality and outcomes.

One of the key products supported by this role is AECOMs enterprise AI assistant platform an internally developed conversational AI capability used by more than 55000 employees globally. The platform enables employees to interact with internal knowledge documentation and resources through natural language to quickly discover information summarize materials and streamline everyday work.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for defining product capabilities guiding development of LLM-powered features and ensuring AI products deliver strong adoption reliability and business impact.

This position will offer flexibility for hybrid work schedules to include both in-office presence and telecommute/virtual work to be based from either Houston or Dallas TX.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy and roadmap for the organizations enterprise AI platform ensuring it evolves as a scalable capability used across the organization
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI product capabilities from concept and experimentation through release adoption and continuous improvement
• Define product requirements and collaborate closely with engineering teams to develop AI-powered features and platform capabilities
• Work hands-on with LLM-powered systems including retrieval augmented generation (RAG) prompt/system design model evaluation and AI feature experimentation
• Apply MVP and iterative product development practices to rapidly test validate and scale AI capabilities that deliver measurable business value
• Identify opportunities to expand AI capabilities across internal workflows enterprise knowledge systems and business processes
• Ensure AI capabilities are designed for reuse scalability and long-term platform value avoiding duplication across teams
• Drive alignment across AI initiatives to maintain portfolio-level visibility investment discipline and roadmap coherence
• Partner with AI engineering and operations teams to ensure platform reliability performance monitoring and operational readiness
• Define success metrics and monitor adoption usage and business impact of AI capabilities across the platform
• Gather user feedback and usage insights to continuously improve platform capabilities and user experience

Qualifications :

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree plus 12 years of product management experience including 4 years of leadership experience or demonstrated equivalent experience and education
• Minimum of 3 years of product management experience focused on AI-powered or generative AI products
• Demonstrated experience building or advancing product management practices across multiple products or teams not just owning individual products
• Deep understanding of the AI product lifecycle: from capability definition and feasibility assessment through evaluation release and adoption.
• Technical fluency in LLM-powered products: RAG architectures prompt/system design model evaluation and AI observability.
• Proven ability to drive portfolio-level visibility investment discipline and roadmap coherence across multiple AI products and teams.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder influence skills; comfortable presenting to C-suite and board-level audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as product owner or PM lead on an enterprise AI Assistant platform (Azure OpenAI Copilot Studio or equivalent).
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps Aha! ServiceNow Power BI and GitHub-based development workflows.
• Background in building product taxonomies catalogues or PM operating systems in large matrixed organizations.
• Experience with AI evaluation frameworks system prompt governance and Responsible AI standards.

Additional Information :

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Sponsorship for US work authorization is not available for this position now or in the future.

About AECOM 

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status AECOM benefits may include medical dental vision life AD&D disability benefits paid time off leaves of absences voluntary benefits perks flexible work options well-being resources employee assistance program business travel insurance service recognition awards retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan. 

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities we solve our clients complex challenges in water environment energy transportation and buildings. Our teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. Learn more at . 

What makes AECOM a great place to work 

You will be part of a global team that champions your growth and career ambitions. Work on groundbreaking projects - both in your local community and on a global scale - that are transforming our industry and shaping the future. With cutting-edge technology and a network of experts youll have the resources to make a real impact. Our award-winning training and development programs are designed to expand your technical expertise and leadership skills helping you build the career youve always envisioned. Here youll find a welcoming workplace built on respect collaboration and communitywhere you have the freedom to grow in a world of opportunity. 

As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in your potential and are here to help you achieve it. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time