# Staff Technical Product Manager

**Company:** [Scale AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/scale-ai)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AI, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Product Management, Defense, National Security, Prototyping, Technical Architecture, Model Training, Model Evaluation
**Posted:** 2026-04-10

> Staff Technical Product Manager owns product roadmaps and execution for Scale's Global Defense AI products, designing and shipping tooling for national security workflows. Requires 8+ years in engineering/ML or technical PM, hands-on building, and deep AI expertise.

## Job Description

## You Will

- Own the product roadmap and execution for one or more product areas within Global Defense, driving what gets built and how it ships
- Be hands-on: write specs, prototype solutions, dig into technical architecture with engineers, and make product calls grounded in real technical understanding
- Design and ship AI-powered products and tooling for defense and national security workflows, working side-by-side with engineering and ML teams
- Use customer context to inform what you build — understand allied defense workflows deeply enough to make opinionated product decisions, not just relay requirements
- Navigate the unique constraints of defense product development across allied nations — classification environments, accreditation processes, air-gapped deployments — or be ready to learn these fast
- Operate like a founding team member: wear multiple hats, move fast, unblock yourself, and drive outcomes across engineering, operations, and go-to-market

## Ideally, You’d Have

- Builder mentality: you’re energized by going from zero to one, not by managing from a distance
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or a deeply technical product role where you were hands-on with what shipped
- Technical fluency: software engineering or ML background (master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience). Experience training or evaluating models is a plus
- Deep intellectual curiosity about AI systems — you read papers, dig into technical details, and have strong opinions about how things should be built
- Enough customer instinct to know what matters, but your default mode is building, not selling
- Bias for action and comfort wearing multiple hats in fast-moving environments
- Willingness to travel to allied partner nations as needed

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