Senior Product Manager

About the job

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Company: AI71

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The team:

AI71, a pioneering AI company launched by Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) and VentureOne, stands as a pivotal movement in the realm of AI innovation. Leveraging the globally top-ranked Falcon AI models from the Technology Innovation Institute, AI71's focus spans multi-domain advancements, initially targeting the medical, education, and legal sectors. We specialize in turning innovation into impact. If you're ready to lead a world-class software engineering team at the intersection of AI and venture building, then AI71 is the place for you.

About the role:

This role will lead Product efforts for developing industry-leading AI software using cutting-edge research breakthroughs.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will continuously shape, own, and deliver on our ambitious product roadmap. Starting from user needs, and a deep understanding of GenAI technologies and the ecosystem in which we operate, you will rally x-fn teams around a compelling shared vision, and underlying product plan and drive its execution.

You’ll focus deeply on technology, early-stage product development, cross-functional leadership, and partnerships enablement to have maximal impact.

Operating with scale and speed, our world-class x-fn team is just getting started -- and as a core member of the founding team, you will have the opportunity to shape it!

Job responsibilities:

• Work entrepreneurially alongside our outstanding AI researchers, engineers, and other x-fn experts to identify new product and feature opportunities before incubating, launching, and scaling them in close collaboration with partners
• Develop product requirements for research products to scale. Evangelize the technology
• Identify new high-potential technologies that could have a groundbreaking impact on the world
• Develop technology vision; build the case to invest in new product development.
• Develop close relationships at the executive and working levels with partner teams to deeply understand their top priorities and how our research can help accelerate their existing products in the B2B space
• Identify new opportunities for partnerships that are aligned with our research and partner team goals around building AI-powered products for B2B customers and partners

About you

Required Qualifications (what you should have):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Product Management experience; crafting strategic product roadmaps from conception to launch and working with cross-functional teams
• Experience in early stage and startup environments
• A passion for AI

Preferred experience (it would be awesome if you also had these):

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, AI, Engineering or related technical field
• B2B Product Management experience
• Extensive experience with ML, LLMs, or Generative AI and deep technical skills (mandatory)
• An outstanding track record of figuring out product market fit
• Experience driving large cross-functional projects and enabling strategic commercial partnerships
• Strong communication skills

Why AI71:

• Proven performance of our large language models
• Strong traction and adoption from the open-source community
• Secured proprietary data to build specialized distinctive models.
• Locked large compute power to support our roadmap.
• Signed anchor clients, to develop POCs (proof of concept) and demonstrate our solutions.