Lead Product Manager

Vertex Inc.•King of Prussia, PA

2d•$157,900 - $205,400

About The Position

The Lead Product Manager – AI Solutions role is a hands-on, individual contributor position that drives the definition and execution of AI-first and AI-enabled product capabilities within a defined product area. This position owns the end-to-end lifecycle for features and capabilities, partnering closely with engineering, UX, tax research, security & governance, and go-to-market teams to translate customer needs, market insights, and technical possibilities into clear product requirements and delivered outcomes. The role contributes meaningfully to AI product strategy and roadmap execution by ensuring AI capabilities are customer-ready, continuously improving, and delivering measurable business impact.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of hands-on AI product experience commercially launching AI-driven and data-intensive product capabilities.
AI Fluency: this role requires practical, hands-on AI fluency. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating directly in the AI product development lifecycle: Possess the technical acumen to experiment directly using AI tools for faster product prototyping. Understand how modern AI systems and AI Agents behave, improve over time, and fail. Understand how to use those characteristics to influence product decisions and user experience evolution. Ability to create or curate representative mock or synthetic datasets to support experimentation, evaluation, and validation.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field. Equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a formal degree.
Some experience mentoring or coaching junior product owners on AI fluency and product development practices.

Responsibilities

Define clear product requirements for AI‑powered capabilities and AI‑enabled integrations, with explicit expectations for evaluation criteria, and feedback mechanisms built into the roadmap.
Partner closely with engineering teams on model evaluation, experimentation, and tuning, to identify opportunities for iterative improvements, and assess release readiness.
Drive the continuous evolution of AI features by identifying gaps through customer feedback, usage metrics, AI performance signals, and translating those insights into sequenced roadmap investments and delivery milestones.
Curate and maintain a capability‑level AI roadmap for assigned AI features and core capabilities, prioritizing incremental improvements that drive quality, trust and customer value.
Metrics-driven product delivery, including defining success metrics, assessing outcomes, and using findings to guide iteration.
Experience applying responsible AI principles, including traceability, privacy, security, bias awareness, transparency, and auditability within owned capabilities.
Clear, structured communication skills, conveying priorities, trade-offs, risks, and progress to cross-functional stakeholders.