Hiring: Principal Technical Product Manager (R5249) Company: Shield AI Location: San Mateo, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:33:14 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AI, C++, Databricks, Fine-tuning, LLM, Python, React, TypeScript About the job Experience: •8+ years of product management for deeply technical products; engineering or CS background. Required Skills: •Own product definition, roadmap, and metrics across the office of the CTO's agentic AI portfolio: an enterprise knowledge assistant (Brain), an agent-driven engineering platform (Springboard), and enterprise AI/data modernization and app development. •Translate CTO strategy into crisp requirements, milestones, exit criteria, and KPIs — then hold the line on them. •Drive adoption of internal platforms: reduce onboarding friction, instrument usage, track NPS and active users, and run developer advocacy and objection handling. •Shape product direction for foundation-model based autonomy architectures and model lifecycle tooling (evaluation, fine-tuning, verification, deployment). •Run continuous discovery with engineers, operators, and executive stakeholders; turn findings into prioritized backlogs. •Prioritize ruthlessly across competing initiatives with small teams and aggressive timelines. •Analyze the agentic tooling, enterprise AI platform, and foundation model ecosystem; recommend build/buy/partner positions to leadership. •Author strategy documents, product briefs, and executive updates that drive decisions. Qualifications: •Technical fluency: you read code, work APIs and CLIs from a terminal, and prototype with AI coding tools yourself. •Shipped developer tools, internal platforms, or AI/ML products — and drove their adoption. •Working fluency in LLM-based systems: agents, evaluation, context management, fine-tuning trade-offs. •Metrics-driven operating style: you define KPIs, instrument products, and report against thresholds and objectives. •Exceptional written communication — requirements, strategy docs, executive briefs. •Proven stakeholder management up to the executive level across engineering, product, and business functions. •Fluid intelligence that allows one to operate effectively in ambiguous conditions while finding opportunities to drive technical efforts and force multiply. •This role requires travel to a Shield AI location 1-3 times per quarter •Prior experience as a software engineer. Compensation: •$220,000 - $330,000 / year •Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!