25th November, 2025
AI Product Manager #1044167
Job Description:
- We are a transformative strategic growth initiative that represents our commitment to innovation in a software-driven, AI-powered landscape.
- We pair cutting-edge AI and software with our hardware to enable integrated solutions that deliver personalized experiences, actionable insights, and unmatched efficiency.
- We aim to expand AI-driven hardware, software and solution businesses to 30% of its revenue by 2035.
The Opportunity - Across our portfolio, we have thousands of connected devices generating proprietary data in real-world environments.
- We're building AI/software products that monetize these assets and create new recurring revenue streams.
- You'll lead innovation pods within our company, taking AI/software products from 0→1 and beyond in solution areas like: energy management, supply chain optimization, manufacturing automation, food retail systems, or industrial IoT.
- You'll have autonomy, direct leadership visibility, and the opportunity to build transformative products within a Fortune 500 enterprise.
What success looks like: - 6 months:Launched MVP with validated market receptivity
- 12 months:Product customers pay for with clear path to scale
- Beyond:Key architect of AI product capabilities across our company
What You'll Do - Own end-to-end product development for AI/software solutions that enhance and monetize our hardware
- Lead cross-functional innovation pods (5-10 people: engineers, strategists, GTM support)
- Translate customer problems into AI/ML solutions (e.g., predictive maintenance, energy optimization, supply chain intelligence, computer vision, intelligent automation)
- Work with data scientists and ML engineers to assess data quality, model viability, and technical feasibility
- Bridge hardware realities (sensors, connectivity, edge computing) with software/AI capabilities across the IoT stack
- Build credibility with business unit leaders and translate technical AI concepts for diverse audiences
- Run rapid experiments to validate product-market fit and define success metrics
- Create replicable playbooks for broader organizational adoption
What We're Looking For Required: - 10+ years in product management shipping AI/ML-powered products
- 0→1 product building experience in ambiguous environments
- Experience with physical products, IoT, or hardware-software integration
- Track record influencing without authority in matrixed organizations
- Technical fluency: engage confidently with data scientists/ML engineers on model architecture, training data, evaluation
- Understanding of AI/ML fundamentals: supervised/unsupervised learning, classification, prediction, generation, model evaluation
- Experience with generative AI products and LLM integration
- Familiarity with IoT stack: sensors, connectivity protocols, edge computing, cloud infrastructure
- Ability to translate business problems into clear AI/ML product requirements and lead cross-functional teams
What Makes Someone Great: - Intellectually curious about complex industrial problems in energy, supply chain, manufacturing
- Rapid learner who context-switches across industries effectively
- Comfortable proposing frameworks that create clarity from ambiguity
- Builder mentality: ships products customers pay for, measures success by business outcomes
- Autonomous: figures things out without oversight
- Translation superpower: bridges technical and business worlds seamlessly
- Proactively raises questions about bias, fairness, and responsible AI use
Nice-to-Haves: - AI product experience in industrial companies (energy, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, industrial automation)
- Launched hardware products at scale (100K+ units)
- IoT product management for commercial/industrial applications
- Familiarity with edge AI, computer vision, predictive analytics, or industrial automation
- Corporate innovation or transformation role experience
- Experience working with Japanese companies and/or Japanese language abilities
Why This Role Matters For you: Rare transformation opportunity in a Fortune 500 company reimagining its business model. Build AI products across major industrial sectors with autonomy, access to our scale and resources, and direct visibility to C-suite. Define AI product management practices that will scale across the organization.
For us: Help evolve from hardware manufacturer to AI/software revenue generator. Create new business models that scale across business units. Establish replicable playbooks enabling us to achieve 30% AI-driven revenue by 2035.
Additional Information: At FastTek Global,
Our Purpose is
Our People and
Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are
helping people find their success stories. Also,
Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for
24 years!
FastTek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is
100% consultant and
client focused, operating in nearly half of the states in the U.S., Europe and India.
We've differentiated ourselves by being
fast, flexible, creative and
honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our
flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
- Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
- Vision
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
- Long Term Disability (100% paid)
- Life Insurance (100% paid)
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the
Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023! To view all of our open positions go to: https://www.fasttek.com/fastswitch/findwork
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AI & Hiring Disclosure We use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications and identifying potential matches. These tools are designed to promote efficiency, consistency, and fairness, and they are always used under human oversight.
All personal data collected is used solely for recruitment purposes, and you have the right to know, access, or request deletion of your data at any time, subject to legal limits.
If AI will be used in a video interview, you'll be informed in advance and asked for your consent, with the option to opt out.
Our tools are regularly reviewed to detect potential bias and to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and our commitment to inclusive hiring.
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