Director, AI Product Management

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Per Scholas preferred hires reside within the following states : AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, WA

POSITION TITLE: Director, AI Product Management

REPORTS TO: Senior Vice President, AI Product Management

The Role

As Director, AI Product Management you will serve as the primary requirements analyst and solution evaluator within the AI Tech Solutions team. While contributing across the full product lifecycle — Evaluation, Planning, Implementation, Adoption, and Support — your defining strength will be in the upstream discipline of understanding what users actually need and rigorously validating whether proposed solutions meet those needs. You will work cross-functionally with departments across Per Scholas to translate business challenges into clearly documented requirements, facilitate structured discovery sessions, and apply analytical frameworks to evaluate and recommend technical products. This role complements the existing Senior Directors on the team by bringing disciplined process orientation and deep attention to requirements integrity.

What You'll Do

Requirements Discovery & Business Analysis

Lead structured requirements gathering sessions with functional teams, employing workshops, interviews, contextual inquiry, and other proven elicitation techniques to surface stated and unstated needs

Translate business challenges into clearly documented requirements artifacts — including user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and decision matrices

Develop and maintain user personas grounded in real usage data and stakeholder input, ensuring product decisions are anchored to defined user needs

Evaluate candidate solutions against documented requirements using structured criteria (business fit, technical feasibility, user experience, financial impact), producing actionable recommendation briefs

Serve as the team's quality gate for requirements completeness — ensuring no product moves into development or procurement without validated, well-documented needs

Solution Evaluation & Validation

Design and facilitate solution validation activities (demos, proof-of-concept reviews, pilot evaluations) to confirm that proposed or in-development products meet documented requirements

Develop and apply evaluation rubrics that weigh business, technical, user experience, and financial considerations in a repeatable and transparent manner

Partner with technical SMEs to assess feasibility constraints and identify gaps between user needs and proposed solution capabilities

Track requirement traceability through implementation, flagging scope drift or unmet acceptance criteria

Product Lifecycle Support

Manage a portfolio of assigned AI products across the lifecycle, with particular emphasis on the Evaluation and Planning phases

Support product adoption by ensuring implementation fidelity to documented requirements and by contributing to user-facing documentation and training materials

Monitor product utilization data and user feedback post-launch, using findings to inform iteration priorities and identify unmet needs

Engage vendors on product capabilities, roadmap alignment, and issue resolution as it pertains to your assigned products

Process Development & Documentation

Create and maintain standardized templates, workflows, and artifacts for requirements gathering, solution evaluation, and product documentation

Contribute to the AI Tech Solutions Master SOP and related operational playbooks, ensuring process consistency across the product portfolio

Produce clear, well-organized deliverables appropriate for diverse audiences — from executive summaries to detailed technical specifications

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with Finance, IT/IS, and departmental stakeholders to validate product business cases and ensure alignment on scope, budget, and timeline

Collaborate with Senior Directors on the AI Product Management team to ensure requirements rigor is maintained across the broader portfolio

Support the SVP in preparing materials for roadmap reviews and leadership presentations as needed

Who You Are

Methodical and detail-oriented — you bring structure to ambiguity and are energized by turning messy stakeholder input into clean, actionable requirements

A skilled listener and interviewer — you know how to ask the right questions, probe beneath surface-level requests, and distinguish what users ask for from what they actually need

Analytically rigorous — you evaluate options through frameworks, not gut feel, and can clearly articulate the rationale behind a recommendation

Process-minded — you naturally create repeatable systems, templates, and checklists; you're the person who documents what works so it scales

A steady, reliable collaborator — you build trust through consistency, thoroughness, and follow-through rather than through high-visibility improvisation

Comfortable with technology — you can learn new tools quickly, conduct hands-on evaluation of software products, and engage meaningfully with technical stakeholders; experience with AI-assisted development (e.g., vibe coding, prompt engineering) is a plus but secondary to your analytical core

A complement to creative energy — you thrive on a team of big-picture thinkers because you bring the discipline that turns vision into validated, implementable plans

Preferred Qualifications

5–8 years in a role with significant focus on one or more of the following:

Business Analysis or Requirements Engineering

Product Management with emphasis on discovery and evaluation

Technical Project Management (product evaluation and implementation)

Solutions Architecture or Solutions Consulting (pre-sales or internal)

3+ years conducting formal requirements gathering — workshops, stakeholder interviews, user research — resulting in documented requirements artifacts

3+ years evaluating technical products or platforms against defined business and user criteria

Demonstrated ability to create and maintain process documentation, SOPs, and structured deliverables

Experience working cross-functionally with non-technical stakeholders to define and prioritize needs

Strong preference for experience in Education, Workforce Development, or Nonprofit organizations

Some preference for familiarity with Salesforce, AI/ML tools, or low-code/no-code platforms

Certifications in Business Analysis (CBAP, CCBA), Product Management, or Agile methodologies are a plus but not required

LI# Remote

For this role specifically, we are targeting a salary range of $90,000- $95,000/year. The salary difference is typically determined by several factors, including the geography where the selected candidate resides and alignment with qualifications and experience.

Benefits & Perks

Per Scholas offers a comprehensive benefits package designed