AI Product & Project Manager

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Our client, a leading investment firm, is seeking an AI Product & Project Manager to join their team in El Segundo, CA!
  The firm is investing in AI and data capability and needs someone who can decide what to build and then make sure it ships. This contract role blends product ownership with hands-on project delivery. You will shape AI initiatives from first idea through launch, partnering with the AI/data lead, the PMO, and technology leadership.
We are looking for someone who learned the craft at a FAANG company or in an engineering-led organization. You know how AI products get built, you speak the language of engineers, and you bring the delivery discipline that keeps complex work on track.
Responsibilities:

• Own AI and data initiatives end-to-end: define the problem, write requirements, build the roadmap, and drive delivery through launch.
• Run projects with rigor, managing plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status reporting in line with PMO standards.
• Translate business problems into clear AI use cases, and prioritize them by value, feasibility, and risk.
• Partner closely with data scientists, AI/ML engineers, and data engineers on model, data, and platform decisions, making sound tradeoffs across scope, quality, and timeline.
• Define success metrics and evaluation criteria for AI products, including accuracy, adoption, and business impact, and track results after launch.
• Use AI tools (Claude and similar) in your own daily work to sharpen requirements, surface edge cases, and accelerate test case development.
• Engage business stakeholders early and often to drive adoption and manage change.
• Bring engineering-grade practices, such as agile delivery, rapid iteration, and experimentation, to a team with deep domain expertise.
• Keep leadership informed with clear, concise updates on progress, risks, and decisions needed.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a product manager, technical program manager, or project manager, with a track record of shipping AI, ML, or data products.
• Experience at a FAANG company or another engineering-led technology organization, or a background as an engineer before moving into product or project management.
• Solid technical grounding in how AI systems are built, including LLMs, the ML lifecycle, data pipelines, model evaluation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). You can challenge engineering estimates and tradeoffs with confidence.
• Strong project management fundamentals: agile/scrum delivery, roadmapping, risk management, and tools such as Jira or similar.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools (such as Claude) to improve your own product and project workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and executives.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to early-stage, fast-moving work.
• Collaborative and low-ego, able to introduce new ways of working alongside a team with deep institutional knowledge.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/BA in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience delivering AI products in a regulated environment, including exposure to AI governance or responsible AI practices.
• Exposure to financial services or investment management, paired with the ability to ramp quickly on domain.
• Agile, scrum, or project management certification (CSM, PMP, or similar).

Pay Rate: $80 - $100/hr

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