DescriptionA global provider of professional information, analytics, and technology solutions-serving customers across more than 150 countries-is seeking a hands-on
Senior Product Manager to lead an AI-driven competitive intelligence and conversational search product. The organization has long been a leader in applying advanced AI technologies to improve productivity and transform professional workflows, emphasizing ethical and high-performing generative AI solutions.
This role will own both
strategy and execution, including roadmap development, quarterly planning, product metrics, and feature delivery. You'll drive initiatives related to event-based data extraction, derivative dataset creation, and assembling structured knowledge into an actionable knowledge graph. The role requires strong commercial instincts, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to translate technical concepts into clear business value.
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-driven metrics.
- Lead data extraction and knowledge graph creation: transform company, people, event-based, and open-web data into structured, factual, model-ready datasets.
- Deliver a conversational search experience leveraging embeddings and Boolean search; iterate toward tailored competitive benchmarking workflows.
- Build modern SaaS AI capabilities and integrate with legacy systems via APIs and connectors.
- Translate technical concepts (NLP, embeddings, knowledge graphs, LLM orchestration, agentic patterns) into value propositions, go-to-market narratives, and customer outcomes.
- Partner with internal data specialists to define data requirements, evaluation frameworks, and model selection.
- Conduct discovery and validation with professional and financial services users, including teams involved in competitive and market analysis.
- Drive execution across engineering, data, design, and go-to-market teams; set pace, remove blockers, and ensure measurable outcomes.
- Champion the product vision and articulate its value to internal and external stakeholders.
Key Outcomes (First 90 Days)- Ingest and normalize customer and market documents into the data pipeline; generate derivative datasets and initial knowledge-graph structures.
- Reduce latency in external data sources by augmenting with open-web extraction and automated data rationalization.
- Ship an initial conversational search experience using a combination of embeddings and structured search; demonstrate superior competitive benchmarking performance vs. generic tools.
- Define the model and infrastructure path, including evaluation criteria for future model alternatives.
- Establish product metrics and quarterly planning cadence (e.g., adoption, answer quality, dataset freshness, time-to-insight, search success, cost/performance).
Skillsartificial intelligence, agentic AI, product management, agile methodologies, roadmap planning, data strategy, stakeholder management, analytics, search/retrieval systems
Top Skills DetailsAI/ML, agentic AI, product management, agile, product strategy, product roadmap, data, analytics, stakeholder management
Additional Skills & QualificationsQualifications- 5-8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years leading AI/ML, NLP, search, or knowledge-graph products.
- Demonstrated commercial instincts and ability to articulate product value to customers and internal teams.
- Strong execution skills-able to set clear goals, drive alignment, and deliver results.
- Hands-on familiarity with LLMs, embeddings, NLP pipelines, retrieval/search systems, and agentic workflows.
- Comfortable with quarterly planning cycles using metrics (OKRs, KPIs, experiment plans).
- Ability to simplify technical concepts into executive-ready narratives, PRDs, and customer-facing content.
- Experience generating insights from company and people data.
- Background working with professional or financial services users (e.g., M&A or competitive analysis teams).
Nice-to-Haves- Experience with modern search frameworks or embedding-based search.
- Background in conversational AI UX, knowledge graphs, NLP pipelines, or open-web data extraction.
- Familiarity with third-party business data sources and strategies for reducing data latency.
Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract to Hire position based out of Raleigh, NC.
Pay and BenefitsThe 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 TypeThis is a hybrid position in Raleigh,NC.
Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Feb 18, 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.
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