Product Leadership, Forward Deployed & Strategy
About the role
Lead a high-stakes team of Product Managers responsible for successful delivery and integration of Scale products into complex customer environments, driving scalable product strategy from bespoke deployments and partnering with Sales/GTM and EPD.
Responsibilities
- Hire, mentor, and deploy PMs across strategic accounts (e.g., Fortune 100, government).
- Identify patterns across deployments; decide which bespoke solutions should move from custom to core product.
- Primary product partner to Sales/GTM leadership to align roadmap with market demand.
- Provide strategic + technical oversight to unblock high-priority deployments in “red zones.”
- Champion the voice of the field within internal EPD teams.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of product leadership, including 4+ years managing Product Management teams.
- Experience in forward-deployed models or top-tier technical consulting / implementation.
- High technical IQ: comfort with APIs, data pipelines, SQL; understands how data quality affects model performance.
- Extreme ownership + systems thinking; navigates complex stakeholder landscapes from engineers to C-suite.
Skills
Benefits
- Policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role.

About Scale AI
Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI
Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.
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