Senior Product Manager – R&D

Nerdio is a company focused on simplifying IT professionals' lives through Microsoft cloud technologies. The Senior Product Manager will lead research and AI-driven innovation in product development, shaping new ideas into scalable capabilities while collaborating with various teams to ensure successful execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead research‑driven discovery and innovation across core product areas
• Identify, incubate, and validate new product concepts, emerging capabilities, and intelligent automation opportunities
• Balance near‑term delivery with a long‑term product and technology vision, ensuring defensibility and scalability
• Frame ambiguous problem spaces into clear product bets, hypotheses, and validation plans
• Drive experimentation through prototypes, pilots, and iterative learning loops
• Champion AI assisted product development agents across discovery, design, and delivery
• Partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to define and deliver AI powered capabilities, including:
• Recommendations and insights
• Workflow automation
• Copilots and guided user experiences
• Evaluate where AI delivers meaningful customer value versus novelty and ensure adoption through thoughtful integration into workflows
• Ensure responsible AI practices, including security, privacy, compliance, transparency, and enterprise trust
• Act as a senior product manager, you are expected to be influencing Engineering, Design, Architecture, GTM, and Support through clarity of vision and excellence
• Collaborate with internal R&D teams and external technology partners on joint innovation initiatives
• Influence portfolio‑level prioritization and investment decisions, providing product and customer insight to senior leadership
• Represent product strategy and discovery outcomes in executive‑level discussions
• Own initiatives end‑to‑end: problem framing → discovery → delivery → iteration
• Author high‑quality PRDs, problem statements, success metrics, and delivery plans
• Define success using outcome‑based metrics, including OKRs, adoption signals, customer impact, and learning velocity
• Ensure alignment on vision, priorities, and expectations across all contributing teams
• Continuously refine the backlog based on customer feedback, data insights, and research findings

Requirements:

• 4+ years of product management experience in SaaS, cloud, or enterprise software
• Proven success leading product discovery, R&D efforts, and innovation initiatives as an individual contributor
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to collaborate deeply with engineering and architecture teams
• Influence senior stakeholders without formal authority
• Exceptional problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Comfort operating in high‑ambiguity, high‑impact environments
• Experience applying AI/ML or AI‑assisted tooling in product development
• Familiarity with modern AI patterns such as copilots, automation, recommendations, or agent‑based workflows
• Background working on platform products, developer‑adjacent tools, or complex systems
• Experience contributing to long‑term product vision and innovation strategy