Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. We design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations and deliver measurable results for our clients. We're all in on AWS, combining deep UX capability with senior engineering talent to get AI into production fast and keep it there.
We’ve earned the trust of leaders across Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing and more, and earned a reputation as the nimble alternative to traditional global systems integrators. Founded in 2009, with delivery centers in Canada, the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, we are smaller, faster, and more senior by design. Our teams average 15+ years of experience. We move fast, sweat the details, and build things that actually ship.
About the Role
We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to define product strategy and lead delivery across major client engagements. This role is ideal for a seasoned product leader who can own the full product lifecycle, build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, and bring both strategic vision and hands-on delivery discipline to the engagements they support.
In this role, you will work as the senior product voice on a cross-functional team, setting direction, driving alignment, and owning outcomes from discovery through delivery. You'll partner closely with client leadership, mentor other PMs, and bring the experience and judgment to navigate the most complex product challenges.
Key Responsibilities
Craft & Delivery
- Define product strategy and vision for major client engagements, setting direction in alignment with client goals and business outcomes
- Own the product roadmap end-to-end, driving prioritization across business value, technical constraints, and delivery timelines
- Lead complex discovery and problem framing with senior client stakeholders, ensuring the right problems are defined before solutions are built
- Define product success metrics and use data to evaluate outcomes, inform priorities, and drive continuous improvement
- Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, delivery, and strategy to keep complex engagements moving
- Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude to drive product discovery, research synthesis, and documentation at speed
Collaboration & Communication
- Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with client leadership, serving as a reliable strategic partner on product direction
- Communicate strategy, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly and confidently at the executive level
- Lead complex stakeholder working sessions, workshops, and decision-making forums across large, multi-stakeholder organizations
Leadership & Influence
- Establish product delivery standards and practices on the engagements you support
- Mentor senior and mid-level PMs, helping them grow their product thinking, client skills, and delivery impact
- Act as a technical escalation point on complex product, scope, and prioritization challenges
Required Skills
- 7+ years of experience in product management, with a strong consultative background
- Demonstrated ability to define product strategy and vision for complex digital engagements
- Deep experience leading discovery, roadmapping, and delivery across multi-stakeholder environments
- Strong executive communication and client advisory skills
- Track record of driving cross-functional alignment and influencing without authority
- Experience defining and tracking product success metrics
- High accountability, ownership, and follow-through
- Proficiency with product tools across discovery, roadmapping, and delivery (e.g., Jira, Productboard, Amplitude, Miro)
- Deep applied experience with AI tools to drive product discovery, research synthesis, and documentation at speed (e.g., Claude)
- Experience in a consulting or professional services environment, or exposure to AI/ML product development or data platforms, is a plus
You’ll Do Well Here if You Are
- A doer. You see something broken and fix it. You'd rather move on clarity than wait for certainty.
- A fast learner who knows you don't know everything. The AI landscape changes weekly. You're senior enough to know better and curious enough to keep learning anyway.
- Direct in a way that makes the work better. You give honest feedback. You'd rather have the hard conversation than blow smoke.
- Obsessed with craft. You know genius is in the details. You ship exceptional, not perfect, and you don't put your name on work you wouldn't stand behind.
- Built for ownership. You honor commitments, admit mistakes fast, and back your teammates when a decision costs something. No handoffs, no finger-pointing.
- All in. You treat clients' businesses like your own. You take the work seriously without taking yourself seriously.
- Resourceful when the budget, timeline, or team is tight. Constraints don't slow you down. They sharpen you.
- Glad to be in the room with people who care as much as you do. Our teams average fifteen-plus years of experience. We hire people who push each other to do better work.
An offer of employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check in accordance with local legislation and our candidate privacy notice. Your current employer will not be contacted without your permission. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
