Product Manager - FDE
About The Position
We are seeking a Product Manager to lead product execution and support the CoCounsel Legal Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, focused on disciplined execution, customer engagement, and end‑to‑end AI product lifecycle management across deployments. This role is customer‑facing and requires familiarity or keen interest with the legal industry and how legal teams operate in practice. The Product Manager will work directly with corporate customers and Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure bespoke products & integration patterns as part of FDE engagements are well defined, well managed, and intentionally productized into scalable AI product capabilities over time. About the Role In this opportunity as Product Manager - FDE, you will: Customer Engagement & Use-Case discovery: Partner directly with legal stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and operational constraints. Oversee execution & delivery and support engagements with customers alongside Forward Deployed Engineers. Translate customer input into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria. Backlog & Execution Management: Own & maintain backlogs across FDE engagements, ensuring strong hygiene, prioritization, and transparency. Ensure work is clearly scoped, sequenced, and tracked across discovery, build, validation and hand-off. Support dependency management and execution planning with engineering partners. End-End Product Lifecycle Ownership: Manage product work from initial intake through development, launch and transition to core product teams. Ensure decisions, context, and learnings from deployments are well documented and reusable. Support release readiness and communication with internal stakeholders. Productizing Bespoke Work: Identify opportunities to convert customer-specific solutions into repeatable product capabilities. Work with Senior Product Managers and core product teams to define when work should remain custom-specific versus when it should be generalized.
Requirements
- 4–6 years of product management experience, ideally in enterprise SaaS or integration / implementation‑heavy environments.
- Customer‑facing interest or experience with legal teams, legal operations, or related enterprise workflows.
- Strong organizational skills and comfort managing complex backlogs across multiple engagements.
- Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into clear product requirements.
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to AI‑enabled products, APIs, or workflow platforms is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with legal stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and operational constraints.
- Oversee execution & delivery and support engagements with customers alongside Forward Deployed Engineers.
- Translate customer input into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Own & maintain backlogs across FDE engagements, ensuring strong hygiene, prioritization, and transparency.
- Ensure work is clearly scoped, sequenced, and tracked across discovery, build, validation and hand-off.
- Support dependency management and execution planning with engineering partners.
- Manage product work from initial intake through development, launch and transition to core product teams.
- Ensure decisions, context, and learnings from deployments are well documented and reusable.
- Support release readiness and communication with internal stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to convert customer-specific solutions into repeatable product capabilities.
- Work with Senior Product Managers and core product teams to define when work should remain custom-specific versus when it should be generalized.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working environment
- Flex My Way policies
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Career Development and Growth opportunities
- Grow My Way programming
- Skills-first approach
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays (including two company mental health days off)
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
