Director of Product Management, Forward Deployed & Strategy

Scale AI Scale AI · Data AI · New York, NY · Enterprise Product

Lead a team of Product Managers responsible for integrating Scale products into complex customer environments, owning the feedback loop from field wins to scalable product strategy, and partnering with Sales/GTM and EPD.

What you'd actually do

  1. Hire, mentor, and deploy PMs across strategic accounts (e.g., Fortune 100, government).
  2. Identify patterns across deployments; decide which bespoke solutions should move from custom to core product.
  3. Primary product partner to Sales/GTM leadership to align roadmap with market demand.
  4. Provide strategic + technical oversight to unblock high-priority deployments in “red zones.”
  5. Champion the voice of the field within internal EPD teams.

Skills

Required

  • Product leadership
  • Team management
  • Technical understanding (APIs, data pipelines, SQL)
  • Customer integration
  • Stakeholder management

Nice to have

  • Forward-deployed models experience
  • Technical consulting / implementation experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of product leadership
  • 4+ years managing Product Management teams
  • High technical IQ
  • Extreme ownership + systems thinking