Principal Product Manager - AI & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems

Fictiv • Oakland, CA

20h

About The Position

Fictiv exists to help product innovators create.
Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.
As our Principal Product Manager - AI & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, you’ll serve as a strategic and technical thought leader driving the vision, roadmap, and execution of AI-powered capabilities across Fictiv’s Manufacturing Quoting and Fulfillment Platform. This is a highly visible, high-leverage role — one that shapes how AI and automation become foundational to Fictiv’s operating system for new product development (NPD). You’ll partner directly with our AI R&D, data science, and platform architecture teams to define the core intelligence layer that powers quoting, supply orchestration, and manufacturing decision-making at scale.
You will own and evolve the product strategy that fuses advanced AI models, data-driven automation, and manufacturing domain intelligence into a cohesive system that sets new standards for operational efficiency, precision, and speed.
This role is ideal for a seasoned product leader with experience bringing AI-first enterprise platforms to life — someone equally comfortable discussing model architectures and data pipelines as they are business value and market differentiation.
You will report to the VP, Product Management.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading AI or ML-driven products from research to production
• Proven track record building AI-first SaaS or enterprise systems, ideally in manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, or industrial automation
• Deep understanding of AI technologies, including LLMs, supervised/unsupervised ML, computer vision, or predictive analytics pipelines
• Demonstrated success collaborating with AI research teams and data engineering to operationalize models into scalable, production-grade systems
• Fluency in data infrastructure concepts (feature stores, inference APIs, model retraining, observability)
• Strong technical intuition and ability to engage deeply with engineers and data scientists on architecture, experimentation, and trade-offs.
• Analytical rigor and comfort with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, and quantitative product measurement
• Exceptional communication and influence skills — able to connect technical complexity to business impact and inspire alignment across functions

Nice To Haves

• Domain experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or CAD/CAM ecosystems
• Experience designing or managing systems with human-in-the-loop AI, active learning, or automated decision-support models
• Working knowledge of product data ontologies, graph databases, or knowledge modeling for industrial applications
• Track record of thought leadership or published work on AI strategy, ML productization, or applied AI ethics

Responsibilities

• AI Technology Strategy & Product Vision
• Deep Technical Product Leadership
• Solutions Integration & Application Development
• Metrics, Experimentation, and Validation
• Cross-Functional & Executive Influence

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K plan
• Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
• Annual Education stipend
• Parental leave programs
• Paid volunteer days
• Onboarding setup, including: standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
• And much, much more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees