Sr. Product Manager

*CANNOT WORK C2C*

The Role

We are hiring a hands-on Senior Product Manager to lead an AI-driven competitive intelligence and conversational search offering. This product is designed to go deeper and be more analytical than general-purpose chat tools-delivering timely, defensible competitive insights powered by structured data, knowledge graphs, and modern AI workflows.
You will own end-to-end product strategy and execution, from quarterly planning and metrics to shipping production features. The role requires strong commercial instincts, comfort working alongside highly technical teams, and the ability to translate complex AI concepts into clear, business-ready narratives.

What You'll Do

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for an AI/agentic, NLP-based competitive benchmarking product, including quarterly planning, OKRs, and outcome-focused metrics.
• Lead data extraction and knowledge-graph creation (top priority), transforming company data, people data, event-based signals, and open-web sources into rationalized, factual, LLM-ready datasets.
• Deliver a conversational search experience using embeddings (e.g., vector search with Boolean support); iterate toward tailored competitive benchmarking queries and workflows.
• Build SaaS-based AI capabilities on modern cloud architecture, integrating with an existing product portfolio through connectors and APIs rather than rebuilding legacy systems.
• Translate complex technical concepts (LLMs, NLP, embeddings, knowledge graphs, agentic workflows) into clear value propositions, go-to-market narratives, and customer outcomes.
• Partner with a former data scientist on the team to define data requirements, evaluation frameworks, and AI model choices (initially operating on Claude 4.5, with evaluation of Gemini or alternatives).
• Run discovery and validation with professional and financial services users (including M&A teams) to surface actionable competitive insights.
• Drive execution across engineering, data, design, and GTM-setting the pace, removing blockers, and holding teams accountable to measurable outcomes.
• Evangelize and "sell the story," partnering with sales and customer success to clearly articulate and land product value.

Success in the First 90 Days

• Ingest and normalize customer and market documents into the AI pipeline; generate derivative datasets and initial knowledge-graph nodes and relationships.
• Reduce latency from traditional external data sources by augmenting them with open-web extraction and LLM-based rationalization, moving toward near real-time insights where feasible.
• Launch an initial conversational search experience with embeddings and Boolean search support, demonstrating stronger competitive benchmarking than generic chat products.
• Define the AI model and infrastructure roadmap, including evaluation metrics, cost/performance tradeoffs, and switching criteria.
• Establish product metrics and a quarterly operating cadence covering adoption, answer quality, time-to-insight, data freshness, and search success.

Qualifications

Required

• 7+ years of product management or product ownership experience.
• 3+ years leading AI, ML, NLP, search, or knowledge-graph-based products.
• Proven experience spearheading AI or agentic AI product initiatives.
• Strong commercial instincts with experience articulating product value to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Hands-on familiarity with LLMs (e.g., Claude, Gemini), embeddings, NLP pipelines, retrieval/search systems, and agentic workflows.
• Strong API experience integrating modern AI products with legacy platforms.
• Experience operating in quarterly planning cycles using OKRs, KPIs, and experiment roadmaps.
• Ability to simplify technical complexity into executive-ready, customer-friendly narratives.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Apache Solr or other vector-based search platforms.
• Background in conversational AI UX, knowledge-graph architectures, or AI data pipelines.
• Familiarity with strategies to mitigate commercial data latency via extraction and enrichment.
• Experience supporting professional or financial services users, especially M&A or competitive intelligence use cases.

Work Environment

• Hybrid: 2 days onsite / 3 days remote
• Onsite location: Raleigh, NC
• Floating desks for product managers

Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Raleigh, NC.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $70.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Raleigh,NC.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on May 8, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.