Lead Product Manager, Strategic Initiatives

The Lead Product Manager – Strategic Initiatives is a high-leverage, high-trust role that sits at the frontlines of new product discovery, commercialization of AI research, and strategic market validation.

You’ll operate as a cross-functional builder, moving between:

• Net-new product development
  
• Sales-driven proof-of-concepts (POCs)
  
• Deep platform and AI infrastructure initiatives
  
• Internal tools that power intelligence, efficiency, and scale
  

This role blends product strategy, AI fluency, go-to-market alignment, and internal enablement. If you’re a product leader who thrives in uncertainty, learns fast, and ships faster-this role offers rare scope and visibility.

• Identify, define, and validate new product opportunities in response to customer signals, market whitespace, and emerging capabilities.
  
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Research, and Sales to rapidly turn ideas into prototypes and learning loops.
  
• Design MVPs, evaluate business models, and shape the transition path from idea → concept → pilot → production.

• Partner with Sales and Strategic Accounts teams to deliver POCs that accelerate revenue, validate platform use cases, and unlock new verticals.
  
• Define lightweight, measurable pilots with clear success criteria and rapid feedback collection.

You will be responsible for high-impact internal products that multiply the effectiveness of every team:

• Internal AI Copilots
  Build internal-facing agentic tools (e.g., for implementation, customer success, GTM) that drive faster onboarding, improved QA, and knowledge routing-powered by our core AI stack.
  
• Modern ML Infrastructure & Data Workflows
  Partner with infrastructure and data platform teams to shape labeling systems, model management workflows, experiment observability, and feedback loop architecture. Your goal: turn model outputs into productized value.

• Identify signals across early pilots and sales conversations to evaluate market readiness, solution maturity, and pricing fit.
  
• Develop frameworks and positioning to test new product-market combinations and determine viability before full productization.

• Operate across departments to remove blockers, connect the dots, and turn ideas into experiments-and experiments into shippable products.
  
• Help translate cross-functional ambition into structured, time-bound initiatives with clear scope, goals, and outcomes.

In your first 6–12 months, you will:

• Deliver a couple of successful POCs that support major deals or pilot partnerships.
  
• Help define the scope and feasibility of new product lines that support long-term roadmap evolution.
  
• Launch internal AI copilots that measurably improve operational speed, accuracy, or onboarding quality.
  
• Collaborate with ML and data teams to bring at least one research asset to production-ready status with measurable usage.

• 4–6 years of product management experience, including substantial work in zero-to-one product development, technical pilots, or R&D commercialization
  
• Background in software engineering, AI/ML, or data infrastructure (2–3 years hands-on experience)
  
• Proven ability to work closely with sales and strategic accounts on pre-product or pre-GA initiatives
  
• Track record of operating effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments-prioritizing clarity and delivery
  
• Deep interest in the practical productization of AI systems and working with researchers to shape usable systems

• Experience leading internal tooling or platform teams focused on operational intelligence or enablement
  
• Exposure to ML Ops, experiment observability, or feedback loop architecture
  
• Familiarity with financial services workflows or other complex, compliance-driven industries

• Define and deliver what comes next. You’ll help shape the next generation of products that push the limits of what our platform can do.
  
• Partner across all layers of the company. From ML research to executive sales, you’ll be at the heart of our most exploratory, cross-functional work.
  
• Drive impact without guardrails. This is a high-autonomy, high-expectation role. You’ll bring shape to what doesn’t exist yet-and ship it with confidence.

Compensation

The base salary range for this role will be between $180,000 and $210,000. Final compensation will be determined by a variety of factors, including, but not limited to your location, skills, experience, education, and/or professional certifications. During the phone screening, your recruiter will provide the location-specific salary range for this role. Regardless of your personal situation or where you are in the world, Interface.ai offers comprehensive and great benefits programs to meet your needs:

• Health: medical, dental, and vision insurance and wellbeing resources and programs
• Time away: Public holidays and discretionary PTO package for flexible days off with manager approval
• Financial: 401K, ESPP, Basic life and AD&D insurance, long-term and short-term disability
• Family: parental leave, maternity support, fertility services
• Development: Access to internal professional development resources.
• Additional: 24/7 access to professional counselors, voluntary insurance coverage, exclusive perks and discounts