TELEMETRY: ONLINE|ACTIVE AI/DATA JOBS: 6,025
S&P 500 COVERAGE: 508 FIRMS
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AI / Data Product Manager

The AI Product Manager guides the strategy and delivery of products powered by machine learning and generative models. Unlike traditional software PMs, they must manage probabilistic behavior, handle output ambiguity, and balance inference costs with product value.

Active Postings
191
in current telemetry snapshot
S&P 500 Share
79%
150 S&P 500 positions
Senior+ Tier
98.4%
Senior, Lead, Staff & Exec
Remote Tolerance
26.5%
remote / hybrid friendly
Current Headcount
1,989
estimated occupied team seats
Hiring Velocity
+9.6%
open jobs vs team size
//What this role looks like in practice

The AI Product Manager guides the strategy and delivery of products powered by machine learning and generative models. Unlike traditional software PMs, they must manage probabilistic behavior, handle output ambiguity, and balance inference costs with product value.

Strong candidates understand model capabilities (LLMs, multimodal architectures, RAG), establish clear evaluation frameworks (Evals, precision, latency), and align technical teams with genuine customer problems.

Core Domain Competencies

Methodologies & technical foundations (% penetration)

AI Agents / Agentic AI35.1% (67 positions)
Data Governance & Quality21.5% (41 positions)
GenAI / Generative AI16.2% (31 positions)
SQL12.6% (24 positions)
LLM / Large Language Models12.6% (24 positions)
Python7.3% (14 positions)
Excel6.8% (13 positions)
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)3.1% (6 positions)
Platforms, Frameworks & Tooling

Infrastructure & tooling demanded in job specs (% penetration)

MLOps / Evals & Observability8.9% (17 positions)
Microsoft Azure8.9% (17 positions)
Databricks↗6.8% (13 positions)
AWS↗5.8% (11 positions)
Google Cloud Platform5.2% (10 positions)
Snowflake↗3.7% (7 positions)
BigQuery↗3.7% (7 positions)
LangChain1.6% (3 positions)

Seniority Level Breakdown

Corporate hierarchy distribution

Junior / Entry0%
Mid1.6%
Senior0%
Staff / Principal17.8%
Lead / Manager79.6%
Executive1%

Top Hiring Enterprises

Leading corporations posting this role

  • Veeva Systems18 positions
  • Databricks8 positions
  • Scale AI8 positions
  • Workday, Inc.7 positions
  • Datadog7 positions
  • MongoDB5 positions

S&P 500 Sector Distribution

Industry sectors generating the highest hiring demand

  • Information Technology33.3%
  • Health Care19.3%
  • Communication Services12.7%
  • Financials12.7%
  • Industrials8%
03 // LIVE ATS SPECIMENS

Live Enterprise Job Postings

Sample of active postings directly from corporate ATS boards

8 active openings
RedditS&P 500USHybrid

Staff Technical Product Manager, Ads ML Platform

Seniority tier: Staff / Principal
Air ProductsS&P 500US

Principal Product Manager - AI/ML

Seniority tier: Staff / Principal
Veeva SystemsS&P 500USRemote

Technical Product Manager (AI) - Veeva QualityDocs & Training

Seniority tier: Lead / Manager
Keysight TechnologiesS&P 500US

Senior Program Manager, NPI Solutions – AI Infrastructure

Seniority tier: Lead / Manager
Global PaymentsS&P 500US

Senior Technical Product Manager, Master Data Management (MDM) 

Seniority tier: Lead / Manager
VeraltoS&P 500US

Product Manager, AI Solutions

Seniority tier: Lead / Manager
SupermicroS&P 500US

Staff Data Center Systems Product Manager

Seniority tier: Staff / Principal
FortiveS&P 500US

Senior Product Manager, Data Center Applications

Seniority tier: Lead / Manager
04 // BRIDGING THE SKILL GAP

Recommended Skill Tracks & Certifications

Curated programs on Coursera, DataCamp and cloud providers aligned with these role requirements

Explore Full Academy ↗
Coursera2-3 months (6 hrs/week)

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Specialization

Official curriculum by Google Cloud covering large-scale data processing with BigQuery, streaming pipelines with Dataflow, and modern lakehouse architecture.

BigQueryGCPDataflowDataprocPub/Sub
DataCamp60 hours hands-on

Data Engineer with Python Career Track

Interactive, browser-based coding track covering robust data pipelines, PostgreSQL, unit testing, software design patterns for data, and PySpark fundamentals.

PythonSQLGitDockerPySpark
DeepLearning.AI3 weeks (5 hrs/week)

Generative AI with Large Language Models

Created by Andrew Ng and AWS: practical engineering foundations of transformer architectures, pre-training, instruction fine-tuning, and alignment evaluation in production.

LLMGenAIFine-TuningRLHFPEFT/LoRA
CERTIFICATIONGoogle Cloud

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

Gold standard certification assessing design, security, scalability, and operational reliability of BigQuery and GCP analytical pipelines.

BigQueryDataflowCloud StorageVertex AIIAM & Security
CERTIFICATIONDatabricks

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional

Validates mastery of streaming, batch ETL, Unity Catalog governance, and production Lakehouse architectures with Delta Lake and Spark.

Delta LakeApache SparkDatabricks SQLLakehouseUnity Catalog
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