Principal Technical Product Manager

Skills

About the Role

You will own product definition, roadmaps, metrics, and adoption for agentic AI products. You will turn strategy into requirements and milestones, conduct discovery, prioritize initiatives, analyze technology choices, write decision-driving documents, and transition mature products to owning organizations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management for deeply technical products
• Engineering or computer science background
• Ability to read code, work with APIs and CLIs, and prototype with AI coding tools
• Experience shipping and driving adoption of developer tools, internal platforms, or AI/ML products
• Knowledge of LLM-based systems, agents, evaluation, context management, and fine-tuning
• Ability to define KPIs, instrument products, and report against objectives
• Written communication for requirements, strategy documents, and executive briefs
• Executive-level stakeholder management
• Ability to travel to a Shield AI location 1–3 times per quarter

Responsibilities

• Own product definition, roadmaps, and metrics for agentic AI products
• Translate strategy into requirements, milestones, exit criteria, and KPIs
• Drive adoption through onboarding improvements, usage instrumentation, NPS tracking, and developer advocacy
• Shape product direction for autonomy architectures and model-lifecycle tooling
• Conduct discovery and turn findings into prioritized backlogs
• Prioritize initiatives across small teams and aggressive timelines
• Analyze AI platforms and foundation-model ecosystems and recommend build, buy, or partner decisions
• Author strategy documents, product briefs, and executive updates
• Manage product transitions from incubation to owning organizations

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity