Technical Product Manager, AI Systems

About the Company

A1 is on a mission to build a proactive smart assistant for everyday users, bringing intelligence to conversations, errands, organizing, and workflows. The product focuses on high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion using multi-step reasoning and external tool interaction.

Responsibilities

• Research and define end-to-end AI system requirements from capability to behavior to user impact
• Translate model capabilities, data constraints, and evaluation results into clear product and system decisions
• Make hard trade-offs across quality, latency, cost, reliability, and UX
• Work closely with ML, backend, and mobile engineers on system design, evaluation, and iteration
• Define and evolve evaluation frameworks across offline metrics, online experiments, and human feedback
• Drive execution with clear specs, strong judgment, and disciplined prioritization
• Ensure systems ship quickly, safely, and reliably, with strong feedback loops
• Own product quality end-to-end, including correctness, predictability, and user trust

Requirements

• Strong grounding in computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and system design
• Solid understanding of ML fundamentals and how modern AI systems behave in production
• Hands-on exposure to AI-powered products, including LLM-based systems
• Experience working with model evaluation, prompt or pipeline iteration, and feedback loops
• Significant experience owning complex, technical products end-to-end
• Proven ability to work closely with senior engineers and ML teams
• Strong intuition for model limitations, hallucinations, bias, and drift

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience shipping AI-heavy consumer products
• Background as an engineer or highly technical product manager
• Experience defining evaluation metrics for ML systems
• Strong intuition for AI UX patterns and failure handling
• Prior experience in zero-to-one product environments