About the role
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager (Individual Contributor) to lead research, discovery, and AI‑driven innovation across our product portfolio as part of our R&D team. This role operates with senior‑level scope and influence while remaining a hands‑on IC, reporting into senior product leadership.
You will be responsible for shaping how new ideas are discovered, validated, and transformed into scalable product capabilities, with a strong emphasis on AI‑assisted product development, intelligent automation, and long‑term platform differentiation.
What you'll do
Product Strategy, Research & Innovation
- Lead research‑driven discovery and innovation across core product areas.
- Identify, incubate, and validate new product concepts, emerging capabilities, and intelligent automation opportunities.
- Balance near‑term delivery with a long‑term product and technology vision, ensuring defensibility and scalability.
- Frame ambiguous problem spaces into clear product bets, hypotheses, and validation plans.
- Drive experimentation through prototypes, pilots, and iterative learning loops.
AI-Driven Product Development
- Champion AI assisted product development agents across discovery, design, and delivery.
- Partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to define and deliver AI powered capabilities, including:
- Recommendations and insights
- Workflow automation
- Copilots and guided user experiences.
- Evaluate where AI delivers meaningful customer value versus novelty and ensure adoption through thoughtful integration into workflows.
- Ensure responsible AI practices, including security, privacy, compliance, transparency, and enterprise trust.
Cross-Functional & Ecosystem Leadership
- Act as a senior product manager, you are expected to be influencing Engineering, Design, Architecture, GTM, and Support through clarity of vision and excellence.
- Collaborate with internal R&D teams and external technology partners on joint innovation initiatives.
- Influence portfolio‑level prioritization and investment decisions, providing product and customer insight to senior leadership.
- Represent product strategy and discovery outcomes in executive‑level discussions.
Execution & Outcomes
- Own initiatives end‑to‑end: problem framing → discovery → delivery → iteration.
- Author high‑quality PRDs, problem statements, success metrics, and delivery plans.
- Define success using outcome‑based metrics, including OKRs, adoption signals, customer impact, and learning velocity.
- Ensure alignment on vision, priorities, and expectations across all contributing teams.
- Continuously refine the backlog based on customer feedback, data insights, and research findings.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of product management experience in SaaS, cloud, or enterprise software.
- Proven success leading product discovery, R&D efforts, and innovation initiatives as an individual contributor.
- Strong technical fluency with the ability to:
- Collaborate deeply with engineering and architecture teams
- Influence senior stakeholders without formal authority
- Exceptional problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Comfort operating in high‑ambiguity, high‑impact environments'.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience applying AI/ML or AI‑assisted tooling in product development.
- Familiarity with modern AI patterns such as copilots, automation, recommendations, or agent‑based workflows.
- Background working on platform products, developer‑adjacent tools, or complex systems.
- Experience contributing to long‑term product vision and innovation strategy.
Benefits and Incentives
- Competitive Base and Incentive Plan
- Stock Options
- Health and Welfare Plans*
- Life and Disability Plans*
- Retirement Plan*
- Unlimited Flexible Paid Time Off, including your birthday off!
- Collaborative Team Culture
* Benefits for international employees, outside the US, vary by country.
Nerdio is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Nerdio is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.