You Might Thrive in This Role If You

• Enjoy operating at the intersection of AI, product strategy, mission needs, technical execution, and customer outcomes.
• Have strong ownership instincts and are comfortable driving product direction through ambiguity.
• Communicate clearly with engineers, researchers, executives, technical evaluators, mission users, and go-to-market teams.
• Like spending time with customers directly, including on-site, to build a high-fidelity understanding of their workflows and constraints.
• Are comfortable turning messy feedback, prototype learnings, and field observations into clear product decisions.
• Think in terms of measurable outcomes, not just shipped features.
• Are excited to shape AI evaluation, runtime control, and agent governance products for high-stakes public sector environments.

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, AI product strategy, technical program management, solutions, product engineering, strategy consulting, enterprise SaaS, or other customer-facing technical roles.
• Deep expertise in Generative AI and LLM systems, including model behavior, evaluation design, red-teaming, RAG/copilot architectures, prompt injection, guardrails, observability, and agentic workflows.
• Experience building, launching, or scaling technical products for enterprise, government, regulated, or mission-critical customers.
• Strong technical fluency across AI/ML systems, APIs, cloud environments, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, or deployment architectures.
• Ability to translate customer needs into product requirements, business cases, roadmap priorities, success metrics, and executive-ready narratives.
• Strong analytical skills, including comfort working with datasets, benchmark results, evaluation outputs, user feedback, and product telemetry.
• Excellent writing, presentation, prioritization, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites.
• U.S. Citizenship required; active U.S. security clearance preferred, with eligibility and willingness to obtain one required.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting Department of War, IC, federal civilian, or other public sector customers.
• Familiarity with RMF, FedRAMP, IL environments, ATO processes, CMMC, or government software accreditation.
• Experience with AI evaluation, red-teaming, runtime guardrails, model observability, AI governance, or agentic AI systems in production environments.
• Familiarity with public sector acquisition pathways, including BAAs, OTAs, SBIR/STTR, IDIQs, production transition, or programs of record.
• Experience partnering with systems integrators, primes, federal channel partners, or public sector resellers.
• Prior experience at a defense-tech, AI, cybersecurity, cloud, or enterprise SaaS company.
• Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance.