Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster

Fictiv exists to help product innovators create.

Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.

Impact In This Role

As our Principal Product Manager - AI & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, you’ll serve as a strategic and technical thought leader driving the vision, roadmap, and execution of AI-powered capabilities across Fictiv’s Manufacturing Quoting and Fulfillment Platform. This is a highly visible, high-leverage role — one that shapes how AI and automation become foundational to Fictiv’s operating system for new product development (NPD). You’ll partner directly with our AI R&D, data science, and platform architecture teams to define the core intelligence layer that powers quoting, supply orchestration, and manufacturing decision-making at scale.

You will own and evolve the product strategy that fuses advanced AI models, data-driven automation, and manufacturing domain intelligence into a cohesive system that sets new standards for operational efficiency, precision, and speed.

This role is ideal for a seasoned product leader with experience bringing AI-first enterprise platforms to life — someone equally comfortable discussing model architectures and data pipelines as they are business value and market differentiation.

You will report to the VP, Product Management.

Areas of Responsibility:

1. AI Technology Strategy & Product Vision

Define the long-term AI technology strategy for Fictiv’s digital manufacturing platform — including where and how to leverage LLMs, machine learning, computer vision, and reinforcement learning
Partner with AI research and engineering leadership to translate R&D advances into scalable, customer-facing capabilities
Identify and prioritize core AI product opportunities — from intelligent quoting and auto-classification of 3D models to predictive supplier matching and adaptive routing engines
Drive the architectural vision for Fictiv’s AI intelligence layer, ensuring alignment between data infrastructure, ML systems, and platform integration
Evangelize the role of AI within the organization — educating teams on capabilities, limitations, and ethical deployment of intelligent systems

2. Deep Technical Product Leadership

Serve as the product owner for AI infrastructure and model lifecycle management, including data acquisition, training, deployment, monitoring, and feedback loops
Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to design human-in-the-loop workflows that continuously improve system accuracy and explainability
Own the AI feature pipeline: define use cases, establish model performance metrics (precision, recall, latency, cost), and measure impact on business KPIs (quote accuracy, margin, lead time)
Collaborate with platform engineering to ensure scalability, modularity, and compliance in AI integrations
Drive responsible AI practices, including fairness, transparency, and auditability in model-driven decision systems

3. Solutions Integration & Application Development

Lead the development of AI-driven application modules — such as automated quoting, manufacturability assessment, supplier recommendation, and production forecasting
Work with product teams across quoting, fulfillment, and partner management to identify where intelligence adds differentiated value
Ensure AI and automation capabilities are embedded seamlessly into Fictiv’s core user experiences and operational workflows
Act as a bridge between AI technology development and solution commercialization, ensuring innovations move efficiently from lab to production

4. Metrics, Experimentation, and Validation

Define the performance framework for all AI-enabled systems, including model metrics (accuracy, throughput, latency), business KPIs (margin improvement, cycle time reduction), and adoption metrics
Lead data-informed experimentation programs to validate new model capabilities and measure real-world impact before scaling
Champion continuous learning loops between R&D, product, and operations teams

5. Cross-Functional & Executive Influence

Partner with senior leadership across Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations to align AI investments with strategic business outcomes
Influence architecture, resource allocation, and data strategy decisions that affect Fictiv’s AI roadmap
Mentor and guide other product managers in the organization on AI-first thinking and technical product management best practices
Represent Fictiv externally — at conferences, customer forums, and AI ecosystem events — as a thought leader in intelligent manufacturing systems

Experience/Qualifications:

Required

10+ years of product management experience, including 4+ years leading AI or ML-driven products from research to production
Proven track record building AI-first SaaS or enterprise systems, ideally in manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, or industrial automation
Deep understanding of AI technologies, including LLMs, supervised/unsupervised ML, computer vision, or predictive analytics pipelines
Demonstrated success collaborating with AI research teams and data engineering to operationalize models into scalable, production-grade systems
Fluency in data infrastructure concepts (feature stores, inference APIs, model retraining, observability)
Strong technical intuition and ability to engage deeply with engineers and data scientists on architecture, experimentation, and trade-offs.
Analytical rigor and comfort with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, and quantitative product measurement
Exceptional communication and influence skills — able to connect technical complexity to business impact and inspire alignment across functions

Preferred

Domain experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or CAD/CAM ecosystems
Experience designing or managing systems with human-in-the-loop AI, active learning, or automated decision-support models
Working knowledge of product data ontologies, graph databases, or knowledge modeling for industrial applications
Track record of thought leadership or published work on AI strategy, ML productization, or applied AI ethics

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch.

Perks and Benefits

Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
401K plan
Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
Annual Education stipend
Parental leave programs
Paid volunteer days
Onboarding setup, including: standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
And much, much more!

Fictiv is continuing to expand our remote US workforce. Applicants from the following states are eligible to apply:

Arizona (AZ), California (CA), District of Columbia, (DC), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Hawaii (HI), Iowa (IA), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Kansas (KS), Massachusetts (MA), Maryland (MD), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), North Carolina (NC), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Nevada (NV), Ohio (OH), Oregon (OR), South Carolina (SC), Texas (TX), Tennessee (TN), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wisconsin (WI), Wyoming (WY)

Salary Range: $210,000 to $230,000 per year, based upon experience

Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.

About Fictiv

Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.

We’re actively seeking teammates who:

Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.