Senior Product Manager

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

About us:

AI71 is an applied research team dedicated to creating helpful and responsible AI agents for knowledge workers. Working closely with our industry partners, our cross-functional teams of AI experts build products grounded in the cutting-edge research of our colleagues from the Technology Innovation Institute (TII).

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.
• 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.

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.