Forward Deployed Product Manager

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Mountain View, CA · Forward Deployment

Founding member of a forward-deployed product team responsible for discovering and building the next generation of AI product surfaces for enterprise customers. This role involves identifying unmet business needs at strategic clients, designing and shipping new AI-powered products in collaboration with engineers, and advising C-suite executives. The goal is to create innovative AI solutions that will be scaled across all Glean customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Discover and build Glean's next product surfaces: Your primary job is 0-to-1 product creation. You'll identify where Glean's platform can be extended to solve problems no product currently solves, design the solution, and ship it - working in a pod with forward deployed engineers to move from ambiguous customer problem to product in production.
  2. Lead deep opportunity discovery: Before you design anything, you go deep on the business. What's structurally broken? What does the leadership team actually lose sleep over? Where is the biggest concentration of unsolved value? You'll form a strong point of view before you ever open a design tool, and pressure-test it with the executives who have to live with the outcome
  3. Trusted C-suite Advisor: You'll earn trust at the highest levels of your customer organizations - not as a vendor, but as the person who understands their business well enough to build for it. You'll set the product vision for what Glean can become inside their organization and be accountable for whether it gets there.
  4. Scale what works: Once something works, you'll make it repeatable - contributing to playbooks and helping the broader team build on what you've learned.

Skills

Required

  • Product discovery and creation
  • Technical fluency
  • Business acumen
  • Executive communication and advisory
  • Experience shipping AI-powered products
  • Comfort with ambiguity

Nice to have

  • Founder experience
  • Top-tier consulting experience
  • Product experience at a high-growth technology company
  • Technical degree (CS, engineering, math)
  • Familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, and evaluation

What the JD emphasized

  • 0-to-1 product track record
  • shipped AI-powered solutions in the real world
  • Deep technical fluency
  • Executive credibility
  • Comfort with ambiguity

Other signals

  • AI platform
  • AI agents
  • Work AI
  • customer-facing products
  • 0-to-1 product creation