# Principal Technical Product Manager (R5249)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 220,000-330,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Special Projects team at Shield AI is an elite force within the office of the CTO, consisting of senior and highly experienced software engineering experts from diverse fields. The team steers technology development towards strategic alignment with the CTO's vision through tactical insertion into teams and technologies across the organization.

As a Principal Technical Product Manager, you will own product definition, roadmap, and metrics across the office of the CTO's agentic AI portfolio, including an enterprise knowledge assistant, an agent-driven engineering platform, and enterprise AI/data modernization and app development.

Key responsibilities:

- Translate CTO strategy into crisp requirements, milestones, exit criteria, and KPIs

- Drive adoption of internal platforms, reducing onboarding friction and tracking usage

- Shape product direction for foundation-model based autonomy architectures and model lifecycle tooling

- Run continuous discovery with engineers, operators, and executive stakeholders

- Prioritize ruthlessly across competing initiatives with small teams and aggressive timelines

- Analyze the agentic tooling, enterprise AI platform, and foundation model ecosystem

- Author strategy documents, product briefs, and executive updates that drive decisions

- Manage transitions of maturing products from incubation to owning organizations

Requirements:

- 8+ years of product management for deeply technical products; engineering or CS background

- Technical fluency: reading code, working with APIs and CLIs, prototyping with AI coding tools

- Experience shipping developer tools, internal platforms, or AI/ML products

- Working fluency in LLM-based systems: agents, evaluation, context management, fine-tuning trade-offs

- Metrics-driven operating style

- Exceptional written communication

- Proven stakeholder management up to the executive level

- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous conditions

Preferred qualifications:

- Prior experience as a software engineer

- Experience in defense, aerospace, or other regulated environments

- Experience with enterprise data platforms and ERP/business-system integration

- Experience with safety-critical or assurance-driven software processes

- Experience taking zero-to-one internal products through incubation, adoption, and handoff

- Experience with robotics or autonomy products

## Skills

### Required
- product management
- technical fluency
- LLM-based systems
- metrics-driven operating style
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- software engineering
- defense
- aerospace
- enterprise data platforms
- safety-critical software processes
- robotics
- autonomy products

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