Principal Product Manager (AI Engineering)

TL;DR

Principal Product Manager (AI Engineering): Owning the strategy and roadmap for hirify.global’s Model Services platform, focusing on model selection, tuning, optimization, evaluation, routing, cost and performance management, and lifecycle operations. Focus on delivering reliable, governed, and reusable large language model capabilities for all engineering teams and evolving the model gateway, tuning pipelines, and safety mechanisms.

Location: Hybrid work format.

Company

hirify.global is a global community driving AI innovation strategy, shaping how generative and agentic AI are transformed into real products and customer-facing solutions across its portfolio.

What you will do

• Define strategy and roadmaps for Model Services, including the model gateway, routing, tuning, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
• Translate technical and architectural patterns into reusable platform capabilities.
• Lead planning and launch of model infrastructure components with engineering partners.
• Balance cost, performance, safety, and developer experience in product decisions.
• Conduct market and competitive research on commercial and open source models, runtimes, and tuning methods.
• Support downstream integrations into retrieval augmented generation, agentic systems, and internal tooling.

Requirements

• Ten or more years in product management or platform leadership, including three or more years in AI, ML, or ModelOps.
• Strong understanding of large language model operations, including selection, inference optimization, routing, tuning, evaluation, and safety.
• Experience with model lifecycle management, telemetry, benchmarking, and capacity and cost planning.
• Demonstrated success shipping enterprise platform or developer facing products.
• Ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear product decisions and actionable roadmaps.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with generative AI frameworks or enterprise governance patterns such as LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, or A2A.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a global community where trust is foundational and outcomes are owned.
• Be part of a company that embraces innovation and empowers its employees to make a difference.
• Work in an inclusive environment with an Employment Equity and Diversity Policy.
• Proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.