Toptal

Senior Product Manager, AI

Toptal

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SQL

About the role

  • Own and lead all aspects of an established agile team, including backlog grooming, prioritization, and cross-functional coordination, with a focus on delivering AI-driven product capabilities.
  • Translate AI platform capabilities into customer-facing, talent-facing, and internal product experiences that deliver measurable business value.
  • Responsible for defining the scope of new product features and ongoing feature improvements.
  • Write and prioritize user stories and define acceptance criteria.
  • Establish and maintain a high level of credibility with internal and external partners.
  • Break down complex problems and use data, analytics, and user research to inform product direction and validate AI-driven solutions.
  • Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team.
  • Run various ad-hoc research and business analyses to assess opportunities and risks.
  • Take ownership of identifying and solving complex product challenges that align with both short-term goals and long-term strategic initiatives.
  • Onboard and integrate into Toptal while independently starting to study and learn the Toptal product suite.
  • Work cross-functionally and with other Product Managers to organize and prioritize high-level roadmap and backlog.
  • Collaborate closely with the development team.
  • Monitor and measure the success of your initiatives against company goals.
  • Continuously improve the team’s processes through meaningful contributions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in a technical discipline.
  • At least 3 years of proven software product management experience.
  • Proven ability to lead products end-to-end from early discovery and zero-to-one development through launch, iteration, and scale, even in ambiguous environments.
  • Proven experience managing the development and launch of mobile, desktop, and web applications across the full product lifecycle is a plus.
  • Knowledge of AI product development processes and best practices.
  • Experience designing, launching, and iterating on AI-driven product features and workflows that deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Experience designing and launching AI-powered product features that improved engagement, efficiency, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Experience building and orchestrating intelligent workflows by connecting systems and automation tools to solve problems at scale.
  • Experience with third-party system integrations is a plus.
  • Comfortable working with SQL or spreadsheets to analyze data, as well as conducting research with internal and external users.
  • Strong expertise in using data to make decisions with a variety of tools and methodologies to gather and synthesize information.
  • Ability to creatively craft solutions through data and a customer-centric approach.
  • Ability to build wireframes and mockups, with an aptitude for keeping things simple.
  • Be meticulous and have a high bar for quality when writing user stories, reviewing designs, brainstorming technical approaches, and testing a feature before it is released.
  • Be humble, willing to learn, and do whatever is needed to help us accomplish our goals.
  • Experience using agile development methodologies with globally distributed teams and the ability to keep up with a fast-paced and global company.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
  • You thrive in environments where you are empowered to lead by doing, working directly with users, data, and your team to make progress and drive results.
  • You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.
Benefits
  • participation in a 401(k) retirement plan
  • medical, dental, and vision health insurance plans
  • basic life insurance coverage
  • short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • access to flexible spending, dependent care, and health savings accounts
  • access to telehealth virtual doctors
  • employee assistance program
  • flexible paid time off

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
product managementAI product developmentuser story writingacceptance criteria definitiondata analysisSQLwireframingmockup creationagile methodologiesthird-party system integration
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcreativityattention to detailadaptabilitycollaborationcustomer-centric approachhumilityinitiative
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in technical discipline