Principal Technical Product Manager

Shield AI
United States, San Diego, Washington, San Mateo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 330,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder management","Problem-solving","Leadership","Influencing"]

Lead and define the roadmap for Shield AI's agentic AI portfolio across Hivemind products, translating CTO strategy into actionable requirements and KPIs. Drive adoption of internal platforms, guide foundation-model autonomy tooling, and partner with engineering and executive stakeholders to prioritize ruthlessly and accelerate value delivery.

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Shield AI
Shield AI
3 months ago

Principal Technical Product Manager

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Job Summary

Lead and define the roadmap for Shield AI's agentic AI portfolio across Hivemind products, translating CTO strategy into actionable requirements and KPIs. Drive adoption of internal platforms, guide foundation-model autonomy tooling, and partner with engineering and executive stakeholders to prioritize ruthlessly and accelerate value delivery.
Location: United States, San Diego, Washington, San Mateo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own product definition, roadmap, and metrics across the office of the CTO's agentic AI portfolio: an enterprise knowledge assistant (Brain), an agent-driven engineering platform (Springboard), and enterprise AI/data modernization and app development.
  • •Translate CTO strategy into crisp requirements, milestones, exit criteria, and KPIs — then hold the line on them.
  • •Drive adoption of internal platforms: reduce onboarding friction, instrument usage, track NPS and active users, and run developer advocacy and objection handling.
  • •Shape product direction for foundation-model based autonomy architectures and model lifecycle tooling (evaluation, fine-tuning, verification, deployment).
  • •Run continuous discovery with engineers, operators, and executive stakeholders; turn findings into prioritized backlogs.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 330,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of product management for deeply technical products; engineering or CS background.
  • •Technical fluency: read code, work APIs and CLIs from a terminal, and prototype with AI coding tools yourself.
  • •Shipped developer tools, internal platforms, or AI/ML products — and drove their adoption.
  • •Working fluency in LLM-based systems: agents, evaluation, context management, fine-tuning trade-offs.
  • •Metrics-driven operating style: you define KPIs, instrument products, and report against thresholds and objectives.
Experience:8+ yearsDefenseAiRoboticsEnterprise software
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementProblem-solvingLeadershipInfluencing
Tech Stack:C++GoPythonTypeScriptReactSDKCLIDatabricksLLMAPIsAI tooling

Company Brief

Shield AI
Develops AI-powered autonomy and software for military aircraft and drones to enable autonomous ISR and combat missions, integrating perception, navigation, and mission planning for defense customers.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Diego, United States
Founded: 2015
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