Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toptal is a global network of business, design, and technology talent that enables companies to scale their teams on demand. The Senior Product Manager will drive the development and scaling of AI-driven products, leading an agile engineering team and collaborating cross-functionally to define, build, and launch impactful initiatives. The role owns product discovery, roadmap planning, delivery, and measurement of business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead all aspects of an established agile team, including backlog grooming, prioritization, and cross-functional coordination, with a focus on delivering AI-driven product capabilities
- Translate AI platform capabilities into customer-facing, talent-facing, and internal product experiences that deliver measurable business value
- Responsible for defining the scope of new product features and ongoing feature improvements
- Write and prioritize user stories and define acceptance criteria
- Establish and maintain a high level of credibility with internal and external partners
- Break down complex problems and use data, analytics, and user research to inform product direction and validate AI-driven solutions
- Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team
- Run various ad-hoc research and business analyses to assess opportunities and risks
- Take ownership of identifying and solving complex product challenges that align with both short-term goals and long-term strategic initiatives
- Apply system-analyst techniques and procedures, including consulting with users to determine hardware, software, or systems functional specifications
- Onboard and integrate into Toptal while independently starting to study and learn the Toptal product suite
- Become acquainted with your product area, the product goals, and those you will partner with
- Work cross-functionally and with other Product Managers to organize and prioritize your high-level roadmap and backlog
- Start collaborating closely with your development team
- Take over all in-flight and planned initiatives
- Own a product category, working collaboratively to complete quarterly planning and set objectives
- While exercising discretion and independent judgment, launch AI-driven features that deliver measurable business impact
- Be fully embedded into and own a development team
- Monitor and measure the success of your initiatives against company goals
- Continuously improve the team’s processes through meaningful contributions
- Work alongside other Product Managers to discover new product opportunities for your backlog
- Develop a repeatable model for delivering upon our roadmap initiatives
- Work across the Product team to measure and refine the roadmap, backlog, and processes to make improvements over time
- Constantly re-evaluate your roadmap’s alignment with the strategic goals of the business, adjusting where necessary
- Deliver your roadmap priorities and promises
- Ensure your team has an incredible record of building impactful products in a timely and elegant fashion
- Work cross-functionally to scale your team to meet the growing needs of our business and our users
- Regularly and reliably attend scheduled virtual team meetings on camera
- Work independently with minimal supervision
- Use all required digital collaboration tools
- Prioritize and self-manage workflows and deadlines
Skills
- Bachelor's degree is required, preferably in a technical discipline
- At least 5 years of proven software product management experience
- Proven ability to lead products end-to-end from early discovery and zero-to-one development through launch, iteration, and scale, even in ambiguous environments
- Knowledge of AI product development processes and best practices
- Experience designing and launching AI-powered product features that improved engagement, efficiency, and measurable business outcomes
- Experience building and orchestrating intelligent workflows by connecting systems and automation tools to solve problems at scale
- Comfortable working with SQL or spreadsheets to analyze data, as well as conducting research with internal and external users
- Strong expertise in using data to make decisions with a variety of tools and methodologies to gather and synthesize information
- Ability to creatively craft solutions through data and a customer-centric approach
- Ability to build wireframes and mockups, with an aptitude for keeping things simple
- Be meticulous and have a high bar for quality when writing user stories, reviewing designs, brainstorming technical approaches, and testing a feature before it is released
- Be humble, willing to learn, and do whatever is needed to help us accomplish our goals
- Experience using agile development methodologies with globally distributed teams and the ability to keep up with a fast-paced and global company
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts
- You thrive in environments where you are empowered to lead by doing, working directly with users, data, and your team to make progress and drive results
- You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do
- Regularly and reliably attend scheduled virtual team meetings on camera
- Work independently with minimal supervision
- Use all required digital collaboration tools
- Prioritize and self-manage workflows and deadlines
- This is a remote position. Resumes and communication must be submitted in English
- Proven experience managing the development and launch of mobile, desktop, and web applications across the full product lifecycle is a plus
- Experience with third-party system integrations is a plus
Benefits
- Remote position
- Participation in a 401(k) retirement plan
- Medical, dental, and vision health insurance plans
- Basic life insurance coverage
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Access to flexible spending, dependent care, and health savings accounts
- Access to telehealth virtual doctors
- An employee assistance program
- Flexible paid time off
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