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Position Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a sprint-based ecommerce platform team supporting 11 real estate brands across 4 technology stacks. This role is highly execution-oriented and focused on driving measurable improvements to ecommerce performance, website experience, and platform scalability.
You will own sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery for ecommerce initiatives across brands, while serving as the primary ecommerce technology representative on our cross-functional ownership committee. This role requires strong operational leadership, cross-team coordination, and a deep understanding of ecommerce conversion, merchandising, and platform systems.
What You"ll Do
Sprint Leadership & Delivery
- Lead a dedicated ecommerce sprint team operating in a two-week Agile cadence.
- Own backlog grooming, sprint planning, prioritization, and execution.
- Ensure roadmap commitments and business-critical work are delivered on time and at high quality.
- Balance roadmap initiatives, enhancements, and keep-the-business-running work within defined capacity allocations.
Ecommerce Optimization Across Brands
- Drive continuous improvement of ecommerce performance across 11 brands and multiple tech stacks.
- Own initiatives related to:
o Conversion rate optimization (CRO)
o Merchandising and package presentation
o Checkout improvements
o Pricing display and framing
o Product detail page improvements
o SEO and generative search readiness
- Standardize best practices while accounting for brand-specific needs.
Platform Ownership & Governance
- Serve as the primary ecommerce technology representative on the ownership committee.
- Provide visibility into sprint progress, platform risks, and trade-offs.
- Advocate for scalable solutions across multiple technology stacks.
- Help define and enforce standards for ecommerce experience consistency.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner closely with: Engineering pods (multiple stacks), UX and design, Marketing and growth team, and Content and curriculum teams
- Translate business needs into clear product requirements and prioritized execution plans.
- Ensure alignment between ecommerce improvements and broader product strategy.
Data-Driven Performance Management
- Define and track key ecommerce metrics, including:
o Conversion rate
o Average order value
o Revenue per visitor
o Funnel progression
- Run structured experiments and A/B tests.
- Use insights to continuously refine backlog priorities.
Multi-Stack Platform Coordination
- Navigate and optimize across four technology stacks.
- Identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and long-term rationalization.
- Ensure changes are implemented consistently across brands where appropriate.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 6+ years of product management experience, ideally in ecommerce or multi-brand digital environments.
- Proven experience running Agile sprint teams.
- Strong understanding of ecommerce platforms, conversion optimization, and digital merchandising.
- Experience managing complex, multi-brand or multi-platform environments.
- Ability to balance hands-on execution with strategic thinking.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience using data to drive decisions.
- Familiarity with modern product tools (JIRA, analytics platforms, experimentation tools) Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; Master's degree is a plus.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Role Details
About This Role
AI Product Managers define what AI features get built and why. They translate business problems into ML-solvable tasks, work with engineering to scope model requirements, and own the metrics that determine if an AI feature is working. The role requires a rare combination of technical fluency and product instinct.
Unlike traditional product management, AI PM work involves managing uncertainty at a fundamental level. Your model might work 90% of the time. What happens the other 10%? What's the user experience when the AI is wrong? How do you measure 'good enough' for a probabilistic system? These questions don't have easy answers, and the AI PM is the person responsible for finding them.
Across the 8,943 AI roles we're tracking, AI Product Manager positions make up 5% of the market. At Colibri Group, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
AI Product Manager roles are growing as companies realize that shipping AI features requires different product thinking than traditional software. The best candidates combine product management experience with enough technical depth to have productive conversations with ML engineers about model capabilities and limitations.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week includes: reviewing model evaluation results with the ML team, defining success metrics for a new AI feature, conducting user research on how customers respond to AI-generated outputs, writing product requirements that include accuracy thresholds and fallback behaviors, and presenting the AI roadmap to leadership. You're the translator between technical capability and business value.
AI Product Manager roles are growing as companies realize that shipping AI features requires different product thinking than traditional software. The best candidates combine product management experience with enough technical depth to have productive conversations with ML engineers about model capabilities and limitations.
Skills in Demand for This Role
Technical fluency with ML concepts is essential, though you won't be writing models. Expect to understand training data, evaluation metrics, model limitations, and responsible AI practices. SQL and basic Python are increasingly expected. Experience with A/B testing, data analysis, and product analytics is baseline. Understanding LLM capabilities and limitations is now a core requirement.
The differentiator is AI-specific product thinking: knowing when to use ML vs. heuristics, understanding the cost of training data collection, designing graceful degradation for model failures, and building products that improve with usage data. Experience with AI safety, bias mitigation, and responsible AI deployment is increasingly important.
Strong postings describe specific AI products the PM will own, mention the ML team structure, and talk about measurement methodology. Look for companies that have already shipped AI features. Roles at companies that are 'exploring AI' often mean you'll spend a year defining the strategy before any building happens.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI Product Manager roles pay a median of $220,200 based on 862 positions with disclosed compensation. Senior-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $228,700.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $213,380. Top-quartile compensation starts at $264,148. The 90th percentile reaches $319,310. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($253,100) and Research Engineer ($252,000). By seniority level: Entry: $110,408; Mid: $193,200; Senior: $228,700; Director: $272,250; VP: $235,000.
Colibri Group AI Hiring
Colibri Group has 1 open AI role right now. They're hiring across AI Product Manager. Based in Remote, US.
Remote Work Context
Remote AI roles pay a median of $185,906 across 2,124 positions. About 6% of all AI roles offer remote work.
Career Path
Common paths into AI Product Manager roles include Product Manager, Data Analyst, Technical Program Manager.
From here, career progression typically leads toward Director of AI Product, VP Product, Head of AI.
The most effective path is PM experience plus self-directed AI education. Take Andrew Ng's courses, build a small ML project, and learn enough Python to read model evaluation code. The goal isn't to become an ML engineer. It's to have credibility in technical conversations and to understand what's possible, what's hard, and what's a bad idea.
What to Expect in Interviews
AI interviews typically combine coding challenges (Python-focused), system design questions tailored to the role, and discussions about your experience with relevant tools and frameworks. Strong candidates demonstrate both technical depth and the ability to make pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. Prepare portfolio projects that demonstrate end-to-end capability rather than isolated skills.
When evaluating opportunities: Strong postings describe specific AI products the PM will own, mention the ML team structure, and talk about measurement methodology. Look for companies that have already shipped AI features. Roles at companies that are 'exploring AI' often mean you'll spend a year defining the strategy before any building happens.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 8,943 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 175 entry-level, 4,132 mid-level, 3,268 senior, and 1,368 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 6% of the market (521 positions). The remaining 8,351 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $213,380. Top-quartile compensation starts at $264,148. The 90th percentile reaches $319,310. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($253,100 median, 57 roles); Research Engineer ($252,000 median, 419 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($251,622 median, 51 roles).
AI Product Manager roles are growing as companies realize that shipping AI features requires different product thinking than traditional software. The best candidates combine product management experience with enough technical depth to have productive conversations with ML engineers about model capabilities and limitations.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 8,943 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (6,739), AI Product Manager (403), AI Software Engineer (402). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (175) are outnumbered by mid-level (4,132) and senior (3,268) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 1,368 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 6% of all AI roles (521 positions), with 8,351 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $213,380. Top-quartile roles start at $264,148, and the 90th percentile reaches $319,310. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $253,100 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $141,440. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,422 postings), Aws (808 postings), Azure (638 postings), Rag (555 postings), Gcp (457 postings), Pytorch (433 postings), Claude (341 postings), Kubernetes (337 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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