Toptal

Product Manager

• 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.
• In the first week, expect to onboard and integrate into Toptal while independently starting to study and learn the Toptal product suite.
• In the first month, expect to work cross-functionally and with other Product Managers to organize and prioritize your high-level roadmap and backlog.
• In the first three months, expect to own a product category, working collaboratively to complete quarterly planning and set objectives.
• In the first year, expect to deliver your roadmap priorities and promises.

Senior Product Manager, AI

• Own the overall strategy and roadmap for our AI platform and AI-driven products, ensuring the platform accelerates product delivery while AI capabilities across talent and client experiences drive measurable business value.
• Provide thought leadership, strategic insight, and clear communication (written and verbal) to your team and the rest of the organization on your product’s strategy and roadmap.
• Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team.
• Guide the prioritization of initiatives as the team scales.
• Lead and grow a team of amazing Product Managers, helping them do the best work of their careers.
• Help define and evolve Toptal’s Product Management practice, including how AI products are discovered, validated, launched, and scaled.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams such as Executives, Operations and Engineering to ensure AI platform initiatives align with business objectives, operational needs.
• Accomplish work objectives through leading and supervising other Toptal team members within the function or subfunction (or on the Product team).
• Establish objectives and initiatives for the team, recommend the team’s structure and jobs, and organize, assign, delegate, oversee, and monitor work.
• Coach and mentor team members, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and implement performance improvement plans, if needed.

Senior Director of Product, AI

• Own the overall strategy and roadmap for our AI platform and AI-driven products, ensuring the platform accelerates product delivery while AI capabilities across talent and client experiences drive measurable business value.
• Provide thought leadership, strategic insight, and clear communication (written and verbal) to your team and the rest of the organization on your product’s strategy and roadmap.
• Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team.
• Guide the prioritization of initiatives as the team scales.
• Lead and grow a team of amazing Product Managers, helping them do the best work of their careers.
• Help define and evolve Toptal’s Product Management practice, including how AI products are discovered, validated, launched, and scaled.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams such as Executives, Operations and Engineering to ensure AI platform initiatives align with business objectives, operational needs.
• Accomplish work objectives through leading and supervising other Toptal team members within the function or subfunction (or on the Product team).
• Establish objectives and initiatives for the team, recommend the team’s structure and jobs, and organize, assign, delegate, oversee, and monitor work.
• Coach and mentor team members, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and implement performance improvement plans, if needed.
• In the first week, expect to:
• Work to get up to speed with how the organization runs, including how our objectives, RACIs, and other operational frameworks work.
• Begin learning Toptal’s platform architecture, internal tooling, and current AI initiatives and capabilities.
• In the first month, expect to:
• Become acquainted with your product area, the product goals, and those you will partner with.
• Work cross-functionally and with Product Managers to refine your product’s strategy, organize and prioritize your high-level roadmap and backlog.
• Start collaborating closely with your Product teams.
• In the first three months, expect to:
• Have a very strong understanding of how the Product Management function and all related external functions are working together.
• Take full ownership of the technology products domain, its strategy, and roadmap.
• Garner the trust of your peers and the individuals with whom you’re working most closely.
• In the first six months, expect to:
• Have built your team of world-class Product Managers.
• Exemplify the ability to inspire and mentor the teams you’re working with.
• Uplevel the team’s ability to brainstorm, collaborate, and execute materially.
• Have chartered a clear path for scaling the team and the impact the Product organization can deliver.
• In the first year, expect to:
• Deliver on your roadmap priorities and promises.
• Ensure your team has an incredible record of building impactful products in a timely and elegant fashion.
• Work cross-functionally to scale your team to meet the growing needs of our business and our users.