Senior Product Owner, AI Platform

Location: Remote; restricted to U.S. persons who are U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, asylees, or refugees.

Salary: $170,000–$190,000 annually in Tier 1 U.S. markets; $130,000–$150,000 annually in Tier 3 U.S. markets. Bonus offered.

Company

hirify.global provides interconnection life cycle management software for utilities, grid operators, policymakers, and energy developers, helping reduce grid interconnection processing times.

What you will do

• Translate company and product strategy into a prioritized roadmap for AI deployment across hirify.global products.
• Engage customers, validate AI use cases, and make build, buy, partner, sequencing, and pricing decisions.
• Own the AI backlog, user stories, acceptance criteria, experiments, pilots, A/B tests, phased rollouts, and release readiness.
• Partner with product, design, engineering, data science, customer success, sales, security, and operations teams.
• Track model and business metrics, assess data quality and labeling needs, and course-correct initiatives that do not deliver value.
• Set requirements for explainability, auditability, bias mitigation, privacy, monitoring, human review, fallback behavior, and AI risk controls.

Requirements

• Degree in data science, computer science, statistics, engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in B2B SaaS software organizations, including 4+ years in a Product Owner role and 2+ years working on AI or data-heavy products requiring data science or analytics experience.
• Track record of shipping products or feature sets used by real customers with measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of the ML lifecycle, including data preparation, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and drift.
• Practical experience with LLMs and generative AI, including prompting, RAG, evaluation, cost and latency tradeoffs, and agentic workflows.
• Senior-level autonomy, comfort with ambiguity, strong written and verbal communication, and ability to communicate technical and business topics.
• Experience communicating with executive stakeholders and developing risk-mitigation and opportunity-securing pathways.
• In-depth understanding of Agile software development and ability to manage multiple changing priorities.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person under applicable federal law.

Nice to have

• Energy or utility industry experience, including transmission planning or interconnection processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with flexibility and work-life balance.
• Lean, fast-moving, mission-driven environment emphasizing bold thinking, reliability, transparency, scrappiness, and continuous learning.
• Professional development through training, mentorship, and career pathing.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance from day one, plus disability and basic life insurance at no cost.
• 401(k) plan with a 4% match and flexible PTO.
• Mission-driven work focused on improving the energy sector.