Product Manager — AI Vendor Tools

The D. E. Shaw Group is seeking a Product Manager to lead product ownership for its portfolio of AI vendor tools and related integrations. The role manages product strategy and roadmaps, gathers requirements and feedback, coordinates execution, supports effective adoption, prototypes evaluation tools, and helps build a team to maintain and support the products.

Responsibilities

• Manage some of the firm’s largest AI vendor products and related integration efforts, liaising between stakeholders across the firm to drive project strategy and roadmaps
• Evaluate product capabilities, gather and synthesize business needs and feedback, set priorities, define requirements, and coordinate execution across technical and non-technical teams
• Lead efforts to integrate external vendor solutions into the firm’s environment, ensuring seamless and effective adoption
• Prototype lightweight solutions, such as dashboards or other tools, to help evaluate product capabilities, communicate opportunities, and accelerate decision-making
• Help build out and manage a small team responsible for maintaining and supporting these vendor tools, including more technical individual contributors

Benefits

• Variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire
• Medical and prescription drug coverage
• 401(k) contribution matching
• Wellness reimbursement
• Family building benefits
• Charitable gift match program

Company

• Global investment and technology development firm
• New York, New York, USA
• https://www.deshaw.com/
• Founded in 1988
• 1001-5000 employees

Qualifications

• At least five years of product management experience, including prior ownership of products, roadmaps, prioritization, and stakeholder communication in ambiguous environments
• A proficient technological foundation—including basic knowledge of core computer science concepts and familiarity with a large variety of technologies—and experience with human-centered design, data analytics, or application infrastructure
• Curiosity about technology, the initiative to spearhead improvements, and a knack for solving open-ended problems and seeing how small details interrelate to impact the bigger picture
• Demonstrated interest in AI, experience managing vendor products, and the ability to ramp quickly, operate independently, and move work forward with limited structure
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills, along with a client-service mindset and the ability to build successful relationships within the department and across the firm
• At least five years of product management experience, including prior ownership of products, roadmaps, prioritization, and stakeholder communication in ambiguous environments.

Required skills

• Product Management, AI Vendor Product Management, Human-Centered Design, Data Analytics, Application Infrastructure, Core Computer Science Concepts

Experience

• 5+ years