Research Product Manager

Percepta • New York, NY

3d

About The Position

As a Research Product Manager at Percepta, you will work across multiple customer engagements to identify, scope, and drive research work-streams that unlock transformative AI capabilities. While our Embedded Product Managers (EPMs) own the day-to-day execution and strategy for individual clients, you will bridge blue-sky research with real-world deployments across our entire portfolio.
Research PMs identify where cutting-edge research can create breakthrough value across multiple customers and industries.
We care deeply about translating research into production impact: you'll help customers understand which research bets are worth making, how to evaluate success, and how to integrate research outcomes into their operations.
We are creative problem solvers and relentlessly practical: you'll balance long-term research vision with near-term value delivery, running experiments across clients to validate research directions and working closely with our research team to push the envelope on the hardest problems.

Requirements

• Have deep technical understanding of ML/AI research, with the ability to evaluate research feasibility and impact.
• Have a proven track record of scoping and driving complex technical initiatives in ambiguous environments.
• Are motivated by high-leverage, cross-cutting problems that can unlock value across multiple customers and industries.
• Exhibit extreme agency and bias towards action. You are fundamentally a "so instead, I..." person.
• Have experience with LLMs and frontier AI research, or exceptional ability to quickly get up to speed.
• Can balance long-term research vision with near-term delivery needs and know when to push for research depth vs. pragmatic solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with EPMs and customer stakeholders across multiple clients to identify where research can unlock significant value.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete research questions and prioritize what the research team should work on.
• Partner with researchers to define research strategies, set milestones, and ensure research stays connected to customer needs.
• Design pathways for research outcomes to reach production, working with EPMs and Applied AI Engineers on evaluation frameworks and integration strategies.
• Identify patterns across engagements and abstract successful approaches into reusable methodologies.
• Communicate complex research concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping customers understand the potential and limitations of cutting-edge AI.
• Create and maintain a portfolio-wide view of research priorities, balancing customer-specific needs with broader platform capabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed