Kodeva LLC is seeking an AI Product Manager to lead the development of AI-powered products in the retail and fashion sector. The role involves managing the pilot roadmap, selecting AI tools, and ensuring efficient collaboration among various teams to deliver products within a tight timeline.
Responsibilities:
- Own the day-to-day pilot roadmap — what gets built, in what order, with which tools, by whom
- Evaluate, select, and onboard AI tools across all five chevrons of the product creation pipeline
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks as the pipeline is assembled — your job is to keep the team moving toward shelf-ready product in 90 days
- Define and track the metrics that matter: time from insight to tech pack, sample cycle time, content production cost per SKU, sell-through rate
- Facilitate daily working rhythms across the tiger team — standup cadence, decision logs, tool documentation — without adding process overhead
- Feed learnings back into a documented, repeatable process that can scale to other categories and brands after the pilot
Requirements:
- Demonstrated experience shipping AI-powered products in a retail, fashion, e-commerce, or consumer goods context — not just advising on AI strategy, but owning the delivery of something that went live
- Deep familiarity with the AI tool landscape for fashion and retail — trend forecasting, generative design, 3D sampling, content production, social commerce — you do not need to operate every tool but you need to know what each one does and where it breaks
- Strong product instincts: you can make a tool selection decision with incomplete information, commit to it, and adjust when the evidence changes
- Experience working in small, cross-functional teams on compressed timelines — you are comfortable with ambiguity and do not need a defined brief to start moving
- Ability to hold the full five-chevron picture in your head while managing day-to-day execution details
- Excellent written communication — process documentation is an explicit deliverable of this engagement, not an afterthought