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Job Title: Product manager
Location: Mountain View, CA - Hybrid
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Qualifications:
7+ years of direct Product Management experience - designing and delivering world-class software products, ideally with a strong focus optimization or complex operational systems.
Proven ability to navigate, influence, and manage stakeholders in a complex, matrixed organization, often across multiple teams.
Demonstrated experience managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for backend platform and front-end products
Strong project management and program leadership skills
Strong SQL and/or analytical skills to extract deep insights, model data, and inform strategic product decisions.
Ability to clearly articulate problems that need to be solved, define KPIs to measure impact, and work with engineers and analysts to ensure delivery of those KPIs
A successful history of delivering customer-driven products that create excellent customer experiences and drive measurable business outcomes.
Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or a related technical field.
Demonstrated familiarity with AI/ML concepts, including prompting and practical usage, with a clear understanding of how to apply these technologies to solve complex scheduling challenges.
Technical & AI Familiarity - GenAI
Enough working knowledge of AI concepts to hold a credible product conversation (e.g., difference between training vs. tuning, what RAG pipelines are).
Avoid misusing foundational AI concepts when framing solutions.
Metrics & Outcomes Orientation
When talking about past experiences, candidates should clearly:
o State the objective/goal of the feature.
o Explain why it underperformed.
o Show how they measured outcomes (metrics).
o Share how they learned/iterated from failure.