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Forward Deployed Product Manager, Public Sector

Scale AI· Public Sector Product
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Hybrid (New York, NY; Washington, DC)$210k - $345kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Product Manager for Scale's Public Sector focusing on military planning and real-time AI/Alerting (LUX) within defense and security-constrained environments. Owns cross-cutting AI/data capabilities, engages senior military and national security stakeholders, and drives deployments to production in classified contexts.

Responsibilities

  • Own product outcomes across Scale's military planning portfolio and/or its highest-impact national security accounts for LUX, spanning multiple DoW and National Security stakeholders and use cases.
  • Translate operational reality into high-signal product input for engineering and platform teams — specific, evidence-backed product perspective with tradeoffs articulated, not requirements docs.
  • Build trusted advisory relationships with senior military leaders, National Security customer stakeholders, and senior technical leads.
  • Drive deployments from contract to production inside classified and operationally constrained environments.
  • Distinguish where the product is the constraint from where execution, integration, policy, or change management is the constraint and drive blockers to resolution.
  • Shape a cross-cutting set of solutions spanning multiple stakeholders, echelons, and use cases.
  • Partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams and Platform Capability teams.
  • Identify and develop expansion opportunities grounded in demonstrated customer value.
  • Represent customer reality to the platform and leadership with credibility that informs decisions.
  • Balance competing requirements across CCMDs and service components that must collaborate despite differing needs.
  • Travel as required to customer sites, including classified facilities.

Qualifications

  • Active TOP SECRET security clearance (TS/SCI eligibility preferred).
  • 6+ years in product management, technical program management, or a customer-facing product ownership role
  • Direct experience working with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) or the broader U.S. national security community.
  • Working knowledge of at least one of the following, with ability to speak credibly to the other: - The military planning process (e.g., Joint Planning Process) and modeling/simulation systems (e.g., AFSIM) - Real-time streaming data systems — event-driven architectures, low-latency pipelines, and high-throughput data processing
  • Demonstrated record of shipping AI or data products into large, constrained, classified, or highly regulated organizations
  • Extreme ownership and follow-through
  • Comfortable operating with senior military/civilian/mission stakeholders and senior engineers
  • Strong judgment under pressure
  • Technical fluency sufficient to discuss architectural tradeoffs with platform engineers
  • Ability to shape cross-cutting solutions across multiple stakeholders and use cases
  • Ability to travel, including to classified facilities

Skills

Required:Enterprise deploymentDomain fluencyProduct judgment in the fieldCustomer trust-buildingTechnical translationOperating in ambiguityCommunication

Benefits

  • comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • learning and development stipend
  • generous PTO
  • commuter stipend (may be eligible)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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