Forward Deployed Product Manager

The role

The Agentic SDLC Product Manager owns the Product workstream inside client engagements. You will lead product assessments, design future-state PDLC, and coach product managers on AI-assisted development.

What you will do

• Lead the product workstream end-to-end on enterprise transformation programs
• Assess client product team operations and design future-state PDLC
• Coach PMs through the shift to strategic orchestrators of AI-assisted development
• Run discovery and shape delivery backlogs into signed Sprint Charters
• Write specs that drive prototype and MVP development
• Design PM training curricula and lead enablement sessions
• Surface expansion opportunities during delivery
• Help define and refine product-facing agents
• Provide field feedback for agent design and prompt configuration
• Support pre-sales conversations regarding product definition and PDLC maturity

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience, including meaningful time in a client-facing, embedded, or consulting role
• Experience working directly with product teams on discovery processes, PDLC design, and spec practices
• Experience or demonstrated capability in the use of Agentic AI to facilitate product management activities
• Strong facilitation skills to run working sessions and drive toward signed-off decisions
• Able to write clean, executable specs
• Technical fluency to scope prototypes with engineers

Nice to have

• Background in professional services, management consulting, or an embedded advisory role
• Experience redesigning how a product function works inside another organization
• Familiarity with AI-native product workflows: spec-driven development, LLM-assisted requirements generation, or agentic product tooling
• Experience with PE portfolio company environments or enterprise engineering organizations navigating modernization
• Hands-on familiarity with Claude Code or equivalent AI-assisted development tooling

Benefits

• Medical Insurance for you and eligible dependents
• 100% remote work
• 401k plan with company match up to 4% and immediate vesting
• Competitive phantom equity
• Company issued laptop
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Term Disability Insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Equipment & Office Stipend
• Annual stipend for Learning and Development
• Unlimited Paid Time Off, following a 90-day probationary period

Before you apply

• Requires current legal authorization to work in the country where this position is located
• Caylent is not able to sponsor visa or work permit applications at this time

About the company

Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company and an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner. They help organizations modernize technology and move AI from experimentation into production.