ARSIEM is looking for an amazingly talented AI Product Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to provide strategic and operational guidance to teams developing AI-enabled solutions. This role is suited for an experienced product-oriented professional who can help shape priorities, align stakeholders, drive disciplined execution, and keep technical efforts focused on mission value. This individual does not need to be a software engineer but should possess strong technical fluency and enough AI literacy to engage credibly with engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and government leadership. The ideal candidate understands how to translate mission needs into executable plans, keep complex efforts on track, and identify when programs are drifting from useful outcomes. Above all, we want someone with authentic curiosity and passion—someone who actively studies the AI landscape, learns continuously, and brings informed perspective to a fast-changing field.
This position will support one of our Government clients in Columbia, Maryland.
Responsibilities
- Provide SETA advisory support to government leadership and technical teams on AI product strategy, planning, and execution.
- Help define and refine AI use cases, product goals, success criteria, priorities, and delivery roadmaps.
- Guide teams in aligning AI solution development with mission outcomes, user needs, operational constraints, and program objectives.
- Monitor effort execution and help keep teams on track with milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
- Support requirements development, backlog shaping, capability prioritization, and stakeholder coordination.
- Translate between technical teams and non-technical leadership, ensuring shared understanding of what is being built, why it matters, and what risks exist.
- Advise on AI adoption challenges, including scope control, change
- management, user trust, operational fit, and realistic implementation sequencing.
- Review proposed AI solutions for feasibility, mission relevance, and alignment with available resources and timelines.
- Support briefings, planning artifacts, concept papers, product documentation, and executive communications.
- Help identify when teams need course correction, sharper problem framing, better metrics, or more disciplined execution.
Minimum Qualifications
- Min 18 years with Bachelors, 15 years with Master's degree in a relevant field such as Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations, or related discipline.
- Experience in product management, technical program support, capability delivery, or requirements management in a government, defense, or complex enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams building software, data, AI, or digital solutions.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle concepts, roadmap planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, and execution tracking.
- Familiarity with AI concepts, terminology, current capabilities, and practical implementation challenges.
- Ability to advise leadership while also engaging productively with engineers and solution teams.
- Excellent written, verbal, and briefing skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting AI, data, analytics, or software modernization efforts.
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, DevSecOps, or iterative capability delivery models.
- Ability to understand technical topics such as LLMs, AI tools, cloud platforms, agentic workflows, evaluation, and data dependencies without needing to be a hands-on developer.
- Experience in defense, cyber, or operational mission environments.
- Background in technology strategy, innovation support, requirements development, or portfolio management.
Candidate Referral: Do you know someone who would be GREAT at this role? If you do, ARSIEM has a way for you to earn a bonus through our referral program for persons presenting NEW (not in our resume database) candidates who are successfully placed on one of our projects. The bonus for this position is $3,500, and the referrer is eligible to receive the sum for any applicant we place within 12 months of referral. The bonus is paid after the referred employee reaches 6 months of employment.
Skills Required
- Minimum 18 years' experience with Bachelor's (or 15 years with Master's)
- Experience in product management, technical program support, capability delivery, or requirements management in government, defense, or complex enterprise environments
- Demonstrated ability to work with technical teams building software, data, AI, or digital solutions
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle, roadmap planning, prioritization, stakeholder management, and execution tracking
- Familiarity with AI concepts, terminology, current capabilities, and practical implementation challenges
- Ability to advise leadership and engage productively with engineers and solution teams
- Excellent written, verbal, and briefing skills
- Experience supporting AI, data, analytics, or software modernization efforts
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, DevSecOps, or iterative delivery models
- Understanding of LLMs, AI tools, cloud platforms, agentic workflows, evaluation, and data dependencies (non-developer level)
- Experience in defense, cyber, or operational mission environments
- Background in technology strategy, innovation support, requirements development, or portfolio management
What We Do
ARSIEM Corporation is a proven and trusted partner to its government clients. ARSIEM has an experienced workforce of qualified professionals committed to providing the best possible support. As demand increases, ARSIEM Corporation continues to provide reliable and cutting edge technical solutions at the best value to our clients. Our primary customer includes multiple agencies across the United Sates Government. ARSIEM has the experience, capability, and knowledge to deliver innovative IT solutions on a timely basis.
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