Staff Product Manager, Technical

The role

You will drive product vision and strategy for complex digital products on client engagements. You will act as a principal product authority, mentor experienced PMs, and partner with client executives.

What you will do

• Drive product vision and strategy on engagements
• Define product operating models, discovery practices, and delivery standards
• Own difficult product challenges and align stakeholders
• Define success frameworks using data, research, and user insight
• Identify opportunities to improve product practices across the engagement
• Partner with senior leadership and client executives as a principal advisor
• Lead complex stakeholder forums, workshops, and executive discussions
• Mentor experienced PMs to grow product judgment and strategic thinking
• Own difficult product decisions and complex tradeoffs
• Contribute to business development, proposals, and practice growth

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product management
• Record in consultative or enterprise environments
• Track record defining product vision and strategy at program or portfolio level
• Expert-level client advisory skills
• Experience influencing at the executive level
• Experience leading discovery, roadmapping, and delivery across large organizations
• Track record of mentoring senior product managers
• Strong cross-functional leadership to align engineering, design, strategy, and business
• Experience defining product metrics, success frameworks, and iterative delivery models
• Deep applied experience with AI tools like Claude
• Deep consulting or professional services delivery experience
• A formed point of view on how AI is reshaping product management

Nice to have

• Experience contributing to business development, proposals, or practice growth
• Comfort prototyping with AI tools (Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
• Working fluency in GenAI fundamentals
• Hands-on contribution to AI-powered products
• External presence in the product or AI product community
• Vertical depth in Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, or Manufacturing

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)

Before you apply

• Offer of employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check

About the company

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building business architecture. They design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations.