Lead Product Manager

Lead Product Manager – AI Search & Asset Intelligence
 

Job Title: Lead Product Manager
Reporting To: Vice President – AI Product
 

THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you a technical product manager with a passion for how AI can solve the "needle in a haystack" problem for enterprise data?

Tricentis is the industry’s #1 Continuous Testing platform. Our customers manage thousands of test assets, yet they often face a critical challenge: Discoverability. When users cannot find existing assets, they recreate them—leading to redundancy, maintenance debt, and inefficiency.

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to own our AI Search and Asset Intelligence strategy. You will leverage RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Vector Search, and Recommender Systems to transform how users find, reuse, and optimize their testing portfolios.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Own the "Asset Intelligence" Roadmap: You will drive the strategy for AI-enabled asset discovery, focusing on reducing redundancy and increasing the re-use of testing components across the Tricentis portfolio.

• Build Technical AI Products: You will define the requirements for our Search and RAG architecture, making high-stakes decisions on indexing strategies, relevance ranking, and context windows.

• Bridge the Gap: You will act as the translator between Data Science/AI engineering teams and business stakeholders, converting complex technical capabilities into tangible customer value.

• Drive Execution: Unlike a purely strategic role, this is a hands-on Lead IC role. You will write detailed technical specs, groom backlogs with engineering, and measure model performance (precision/recall) against business metrics (user retention/asset reuse rates).

• Define Agentic Success Metrics: Move beyond vanity metrics like Click-Through Rate (CTR). You will define and track Task Success Rate, Goal Completion, Steps-to-Solution, and Recovery Rate to measure how effectively agents solve user problems without human intervention.

• Manage Agent "Skills" & Tooling: Define the "tools" (APIs, functions, and data sources) your agents can access. You will specify the input/output contracts that allow the AI to interact with other Tricentis products (e.g., "Open JIRA Ticket," "Scan Repository," "Execute Test").

• Orchestrate Multi-Turn Reasoning: Design experiences where agents maintain Short-Term Memory (context of the current session) and Long-Term Memory (past user preferences), ensuring the system doesn't lose context during complex, multi-step workflows.

• Evaluation & Ground Truth: Establish "Golden Datasets" and evaluation pipelines to test for Hallucination Rate and Reasoning Accuracy before deployment. You will be responsible for the trade-offs between model latency and reasoning depth.

• Cross-Portfolio Integration: Work across multiple Tricentis product lines to ensure a unified search experience—allowing a user in one tool to seamlessly find and import assets from another.

• Agentic Frameworks: Deep understanding of agent architectures like ReAct (Reason + Act) and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. You should understand how agents decompose high-level goals into sub-tasks.

• Enterprise Data Privacy & Security:

• • RBAC for RAG: Knowledge of implementing Role-Based Access Control at the vector/chunk level to ensure users never retrieve data they aren't authorized to see.

  • Data Minimization: Experience designing pipelines that redact PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and sensitive secrets before data enters the vector store or context window.

  • Zero-Trust Retrieval: Understanding of ensuring that every tool call or retrieval step is verified against the user’s permissions token.

• Vector Database & RAG Strategy: Familiarity with indexing strategies (sparse vs. dense vectors), chunking methods, and semantic reranking to improve retrieval relevance.

• LLM Evaluation: Ability to design "LLM-as-a-Judge" frameworks to automatically grade agent outputs against defined rubrics.
   

Basic Qualifications (Must Haves)

• 5-8+ Years of Product Management experience, with at least 2+ years dedicated to Technical Product Management or AI/Data products.

• AI/ML Fluency: Demonstrated experience shipping products powered by Search (Elastic/Lucene), Vector Databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus), or LLMs.

• Technical Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent technical work experience. You must be comfortable discussing API contracts and data schemas with engineers.

• Data-Driven Mindset: Experience defining and tracking KPIs for algorithm performance (Precision/Recall, nDCG).

• Enterprise Experience: Experience navigating complex enterprise software environments where security, RBAC, and scalability are critical.
   

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Haves)

• Recommender System Experience: Experience building "You might also like" or "Similar assets" features using collaborative filtering or content-based filtering.

• Developer Tooling: Experience building products for developers or QA engineers (understanding the SDLC).

• Global Collaboration: Experience working with distributed teams (e.g., connecting Austin strategy with Prague engineering).

• Hands-on Tech: Previous experience as a developer or data scientist is a strong plus.
   

At Tricentis, we strive for success while inspiring those around us by knowing what we need to achieve and how we will achieve it. Our core values serve as our guiding light to drive our every action.

• Demonstrate Self-Awareness: Own your strengths and limitations.

• Finish What We Start: Do what we say we are going to do.

• Move Fast: Create momentum and efficiency.

• Run Towards Change: Challenge the status quo.

• Serve Our Customers & Communities: Create a positive experience with each interaction.

• Solve Problems Together: We win or lose as one team.

• Think Big & Believe: Set extraordinary goals and believe you can achieve them.
   

Instructions for AI

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