DEPARTMENT Product
LOCATION Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid)
TYPE Full time
REPORTS TO Head of Product
THE ROLE
The AI Product Leader sits at the intersection of product delivery, engagement leadership, and applied AI strategy. In practice it looks like: ~40% product delivery, ~40% client leadership, ~20% AI strategy. You will lead 2–3 concurrent engagements and be accountable for shipping, adoption, and measurable impact.
WHAT YOU GET TO DO
1) Product delivery and execution
Own backlogs, prioritization, and sprint execution across 2–3 engagements.
Run standups, planning, retros, and cross-team coordination with engineering/design/data.
Write crisp user stories and acceptance criteria; make trade-offs under real constraints.
Ensure production readiness: security, compliance, data governance, deployment, and operational runbooks.
Drive post-launch iteration using user feedback, telemetry, and KPI performance.
2) Client and engagement leadership
Lead client working sessions and check-ins; steer decision-making with exec and practitioner stakeholders.
Translate ambiguity into clear plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
Own delivery health: scope, risks, dependencies, and expectation management.
Partner with the engagement lead/account team on renewals/expansions and executive readouts (no hard sales quota).
3) Applied AI strategy (GenAI-heavy)
Help clients choose the right approach: workflow redesign, retrieval, tool use, evaluation strategy, rollout.
Design evaluation and measurement: rubrics, golden datasets, offline/online testing, and monitoring plans.
Make practical architecture-level recommendations with engineers (you don’t have to be the architect).
Stay current on model capabilities/limits and translate that into realistic product decisions.
WHAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED
You have shipped software to production and can point to what you built, what changed, and how it performed.
You can run delivery: budget, backlog, sprints, trade-offs, and stakeholder alignment (without hiding behind process).
You are fluent in modern GenAI patterns (prompting, RAG basics, evaluation, iteration) and have hands-on experience using tools to build prototypes or workflows.
You thrive in ambiguity: starting with incomplete requirements, making decisions with imperfect information, and adapting as you learn.
What we’ll accept as equivalent
Client leadership can be external clients or internal “enterprise clients” where you owned budget, outcomes, timelines, and executive stakeholders.
Experience with AI-powered low-code platforms (V0, Bolt, Lovable) for rapid prototyping and stakeholder demos
AI experience can be GenAI product work or adjacent data/ML product work plus clear hands-on GenAI experimentation in the last 12 months.
Required
AI/GenAI Product Manager who has also led enterprise delivery and exec stakeholders.
Engagement Manager/Delivery Lead from a SaaS/AI product company who has shipped software and can do product thinking.
Senior Product Owner/TPM with strong stakeholder leadership plus clear GenAI build/eval work.
Nice to have
Evaluation harnesses, red-team testing, or model monitoring in production.
Regulated environments (healthcare/finance/insurance) and security/compliance constraints.
Change management: rollout, enablement, adoption metrics.
Professional services experience, especially fixed-price or outcome-based delivery.
Not a fit if
You only want strategy work and don’t want to own shipping, iteration, and operational realities.
You prefer low-ambiguity roles with highly mature processes or narrow ownership.
You want people management or practice leadership right now.
You are remote-only and not able to travel to MSP regularly.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Competitive base salary with a revenue-based variable comp structure — when the company wins, you win. We offer comprehensive health coverage, 401(k) with match, flexible time off, flexible work arrangements, and support for professional development.
ABOUT BLANK METAL
Blank Metal is an AI-native engineering company that partners with enterprises to deliver production AI fast. We blend strategic insight with hands-on execution, shipping high-impact systems that turn AI initiatives into measurable business results.
We’re builders, not theorists. Our team of seasoned engineers, designers, and strategists work across industries to create AI applications that actually get used and make a difference.
Blank Metal is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all backgrounds and perspectives. Diversity makes our work better and our team stronger.
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Skills Required
- AI/GenAI Product Manager with enterprise delivery experience
- Engagement Manager/Delivery Lead from SaaS/AI background
- Senior Product Owner/TPM with stakeholder leadership and GenAI evaluation experience
Blank Metal Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Job postings for multiple roles explicitly include “comprehensive health coverage,” indicating a strong core medical benefit. This language appears consistently across engineering and leadership descriptions.
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Retirement Support — Role descriptions state a 401(k) with company match as part of the package. This is presented alongside core health coverage across various listings.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation write-ups describe a competitive base salary paired with a revenue-based variable component so employees benefit when the company performs well. This structure is cited across several roles, signaling a performance-linked upside.
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What We Do
🤘 What We Do PLAN What You Get: Board‑ready AI roadmap & ROI model Why It Matters: Align execs; secure funding BUILD What You Get: Production‑ready MVP in less than 90 days Why It Matters: Working software beats pilot purgatory OWN What You Get: Training, boot‑camps, governance Why It Matters: Your team scales the win 🤘 Proof, Not Promises. Insurance: We built a real‑time underwriting AI that drove +20 % revenue lift. Enterprise: Designed, built, and deployed an enterprise wide workforce platform that delivered 30% productivity uplift for thousands of employees. Healthcare: Led their C‑suite 2030 AI roadmap that was adopted at the board level. 🤘 Why leaders pick Blank Metal instead of big consulting: Lean, senior teams (<5 % overhead). Your budget builds instead just burning. Outcomes, not hour factories. We measure success in ROI, not utilization. AI-native from day one. Everything (workflows, processes, internal software/tools, incentives, etc) is built for velocity and iteration. Partners by design. Deep expertise and partnerships in the best models, APIs, and ecosystems. Ship in weeks, not quarters. Time‑boxed MVPs land with KPIs wired in day one. 🚀 Blank Metal is fueled by a $3M seed round from Rally Ventures, Traction Capital, and Pure Play Partners. 🤘 For 15 years our core crew has shipped market‑defining digital and AI products (from napkin sketch to exit) and now helps enterprises turn AI ideas into production software quickly, safely, and at a fraction of big‑consulting overhead. 🤘 Life at Blank Metal Small, autonomous squads vs. sprawling org charts. We hire builders who want to move fast, obsess over craft, and change what’s possible for our clients (and their own careers). AI powered, impact‑obsessed. **Let’s build something that actually ships.**
