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Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster
Fictiv exists to help product innovators create.
Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.
Impact In This Role:
As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll play a defining role in building the next-generation Operating System for New Product Development (NPD) — one that leverages artificial intelligence, automation, and deep manufacturing intelligence to revolutionize how products are designed, sourced, and delivered globally. You will own and evolve Fictiv’s Manufacturing Quoting & Fulfillment platform, the intelligent backbone that powers how our customers, operations teams, and global manufacturing partners collaborate. Your work will extend beyond traditional product management — you’ll define, prioritize, and launch innovative technologies that dramatically increase accuracy, speed, and efficiency across quoting, fulfillment, and supplier orchestration.
You’ll partner with our advanced technology R&D team to turn cutting-edge research into production-ready solutions, bringing automation, predictive analytics, and generative intelligence into every step of the manufacturing lifecycle.
What You’ll Be Doing:
1. Product Strategy & Vision
- Define the long-term vision for Fictiv’s manufacturing intelligence platform, emphasizing how AI and automation deliver measurable value for customers and partners
- Identify strategic opportunities to integrate machine learning models, natural language understanding, and computer vision into quoting, routing, and supplier selection workflows
- Build business cases for AI investments, articulating ROI through improved quote accuracy, reduced turnaround time, and increased partner throughput
- Partner with data science and R&D leaders to shape Fictiv’s roadmap for AI-enabled quoting, intelligent fulfillment, and predictive supply orchestration
2. AI Product Development & R&D Partnership
- Collaborate closely with AI research and data engineering teams to translate complex models into usable, scalable product features
- Define product requirements for systems that leverage large language models (LLMs), predictive algorithms, and generative tools to extract, classify, and structure manufacturing data (from drawings, CAD files, and natural language requirements)
- Create feedback loops between AI systems and operational users to continuously improve model performance and reliability
- Lead experiments and pilot programs that validate new AI capabilities before wide-scale deployment
3. Roadmap Execution & Delivery
- Translate strategic initiatives into clear, actionable roadmaps with measurable outcomes
- Establish frameworks to track input/output metrics, quantifying how new AI and automation features improve key business KPIs (margin, lead time, throughput, etc.)
- Prioritize trade-offs between innovation speed and reliability, ensuring that AI-based systems meet the performance standards expected of mission-critical manufacturing infrastructure
- Partner with distributed engineering teams in the US, India, to ensure consistent execution and iteration velocity
4. Customer, Partner, and Operations Insight
- Deeply understand the workflows, motivations, and friction points of engineers, procurement teams, and manufacturing partners
- Use a data-driven and empathic approach to discover high-impact opportunities for AI intervention — from automated feature recognition to supplier recommendation models
- Drive programs that integrate human feedback into AI systems, ensuring transparency, explainability, and trust
5. Cross-Functional Leadership
- Build strong relationships with operations, design, and go-to-market teams to ensure AI-driven innovations translate into real business outcomes
- Communicate complex technical concepts simply, securing buy-in across executive, engineering, and commercial teams
- Champion a culture of experimentation, where data, user feedback, and model performance insights continuously inform product evolution
Experience:
Required
- 5+ years of product management experience in B2B, SaaS, or technology-driven industries
- Demonstrated experience developing AI-enabled products or working directly with AI research or data science teams to bring intelligent features to market
- Strong analytical and strategic skills — able to balance visionary thinking with operational precision
- Expertise in Agile product development, roadmap ownership, and cross-functional execution
- Experience managing products that integrate multiple systems (ERP, MES, or supply chain networks)
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate across distributed teams and time zones
Preferred
- Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or complex logistics systems, particularly in quoting, routing, or fulfillment processes
- Familiarity with machine learning, computer vision, LLMs, or data analytics frameworks relevant to industrial applications
- Working knowledge of one or more manufacturing processes (3D printing, CNC machining, injection molding, sheet metal, etc.)
- Background in productizing or operationalizing AI models for commercial use
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch.
Salary Range: $180,000 to $218,000 per year, depending upon experience
Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.
We’re actively seeking teammates who:
- Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
- Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
- Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
- Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
- Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates
We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.
Ready to apply?
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Principal Product Manager - AI & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
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Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster
Fictiv exists to help product innovators create.
Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.
Impact In This Role
As our Principal Product Manager - AI & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, you’ll serve as a strategic and technical thought leader driving the vision, roadmap, and execution of AI-powered capabilities across Fictiv’s Manufacturing Quoting and Fulfillment Platform. This is a highly visible, high-leverage role — one that shapes how AI and automation become foundational to Fictiv’s operating system for new product development (NPD). You’ll partner directly with our AI R&D, data science, and platform architecture teams to define the core intelligence layer that powers quoting, supply orchestration, and manufacturing decision-making at scale.
You will own and evolve the product strategy that fuses advanced AI models, data-driven automation, and manufacturing domain intelligence into a cohesive system that sets new standards for operational efficiency, precision, and speed.
This role is ideal for a seasoned product leader with experience bringing AI-first enterprise platforms to life — someone equally comfortable discussing model architectures and data pipelines as they are business value and market differentiation.
You will report to the VP, Product Management.
Areas of Responsibility:
1. AI Technology Strategy & Product Vision
- Define the long-term AI technology strategy for Fictiv’s digital manufacturing platform — including where and how to leverage LLMs, machine learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning
- Partner with AI research and engineering leadership to translate R&D advances into scalable, customer-facing capabilities
- Identify and prioritize core AI product opportunities — from intelligent quoting and auto-classification of 3D models to predictive supplier matching and adaptive routing engines
- Drive the architectural vision for Fictiv’s AI intelligence layer, ensuring alignment between data infrastructure, ML systems, and platform integration
- Evangelize the role of AI within the organization — educating teams on capabilities, limitations, and ethical deployment of intelligent systems
2. Deep Technical Product Leadership
- Serve as the product owner for AI infrastructure and model lifecycle management, including data acquisition, training, deployment, monitoring, and feedback loops
- Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to design human-in-the-loop workflows that continuously improve system accuracy and explainability
- Own the AI feature pipeline: define use cases, establish model performance metrics (precision, recall, latency, cost), and measure impact on business KPIs (quote accuracy, margin, lead time)
- Collaborate with platform engineering to ensure scalability, modularity, and compliance in AI integrations
- Drive responsible AI practices, including fairness, transparency, and auditability in model-driven decision systems
3. Solutions Integration & Application Development
- Lead the development of AI-driven application modules — such as automated quoting, manufacturability assessment, supplier recommendation, and production forecasting
- Work with product teams across quoting, fulfillment, and partner management to identify where intelligence adds differentiated value
- Ensure AI and automation capabilities are embedded seamlessly into Fictiv’s core user experiences and operational workflows
- Act as a bridge between AI technology development and solution commercialization, ensuring innovations move efficiently from lab to production
4. Metrics, Experimentation, and Validation
- Define the performance framework for all AI-enabled systems, including model metrics (accuracy, throughput, latency), business KPIs (margin improvement, cycle time reduction), and adoption metrics
- Lead data-informed experimentation programs to validate new model capabilities and measure real-world impact before scaling
- Champion continuous learning loops between R&D, product, and operations teams
5. Cross-Functional & Executive Influence
- Partner with senior leadership across Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations to align AI investments with strategic business outcomes
- Influence architecture, resource allocation, and data strategy decisions that affect Fictiv’s AI roadmap
- Mentor and guide other product managers in the organization on AI-first thinking and technical product management best practices
- Represent Fictiv externally — at conferences, customer forums, and AI ecosystem events — as a thought leader in intelligent manufacturing systems
Experience/Qualifications:
Required
- 10+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading AI or ML-driven products from research to production
- Proven track record building AI-first SaaS or enterprise systems, ideally in manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, or industrial automation
- Deep understanding of AI technologies, including LLMs, supervised/unsupervised ML, computer vision, or predictive analytics pipelines
- Demonstrated success collaborating with AI research teams and data engineering to operationalize models into scalable, production-grade systems
- Fluency in data infrastructure concepts (feature stores, inference APIs, model retraining, observability)
- Strong technical intuition and ability to engage deeply with engineers and data scientists on architecture, experimentation, and trade-offs.
- Analytical rigor and comfort with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, and quantitative product measurement
- Exceptional communication and influence skills — able to connect technical complexity to business impact and inspire alignment across functions
Preferred
- Domain experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or CAD/CAM ecosystems
- Experience designing or managing systems with human-in-the-loop AI, active learning, or automated decision-support models
- Working knowledge of product data ontologies, graph databases, or knowledge modeling for industrial applications
- Track record of thought leadership or published work on AI strategy, ML productization, or applied AI ethics
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch.
Perks and Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K plan
- Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
- Annual Education stipend
- Parental leave programs
- Paid volunteer days
- Onboarding setup, including: standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
- And much, much more!
Fictiv is continuing to expand our remote US workforce. Applicants from the following states are eligible to apply:
Arizona (AZ), California (CA), District of Columbia, (DC), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Hawaii (HI), Iowa (IA), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Kansas (KS), Massachusetts (MA), Maryland (MD), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), North Carolina (NC), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Nevada (NV), Ohio (OH), Oregon (OR), South Carolina (SC), Texas (TX), Tennessee (TN), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wisconsin (WI), Wyoming (WY)
Salary Range: $210,000 to $230,000 per year, based upon experience
Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.
We’re actively seeking teammates who:
- Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
- Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
- Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
- Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
- Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates
We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Fictiv