AI Product Manager

John Deere is hiring an AI Product Manager to build and scale AI-powered parts experiences across Shop.Deere.com, Deere.com, and Unified Parts Experience. The role owns the Parts AI product lifecycle, leads a development team, coordinates reusable capabilities across platforms, and supports internal AI adoption and measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product and outcomes: Define the AI agents needed, value proposition, objectives, roadmap, and measurable customer, dealer, and business outcomes for Parts AI
• Lead a dedicated development team: Provide day-to-day product direction, prioritize the backlog, make scope tradeoffs, remove ambiguity, and move capabilities from discovery through production
• Discover and validate user problems: Conduct customer and dealer discovery, identify high-value workflows, test concepts, and validate that AI is solving meaningful problems
• Translate needs into buildable work: Define journeys, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, data needs, guardrails, and release decisions in partnership with UX, Engineering, Architecture, Data, and Content
• Deliver and operate AI products: Lead pilots, phased releases, production readiness, monitoring, issue prioritization, and continuous improvement
• Own AI product quality: Establish evaluation criteria for accuracy, relevance, task completion, safety, and user trust; use findings to prioritize improvements
• Drive adoption and business impact: Partner with product, marketing, dealer, regional, and support teams to embed capabilities in workflows and measure utilization and value
• Orchestrate across DEC: Coordinate shared skills, tools, data sources, and interaction patterns so each platform can consume common Parts AI capabilities without duplicating development
• Prioritize AI work with teams using business value, demand, and support capacity
• Share company and industry AI insights to encourage reuse of proven work and reduce duplication
• Provide agent-building guidance, including instructions, templates, and reusable patterns for designing, testing, and deploying AI agents
• Coach teams through use-case testing, alongside AI Champions, and help review results before expansion
• Own program metrics, agree measures and baselines with teams, and review project status and before-and-after results; Armaan Arora supports reporting
• Review evidence with team leads to inform continuation, adaptation, or stopping; the leadership sponsor approves the next phase

Requirements:

• Product management experience delivering complex digital products with a cross-functional development team
• Experience owning discovery, roadmap, backlog, requirements, release decisions, and measurable outcomes
• Ability to translate customer, dealer, and business needs into scalable product capabilities
• Understanding of AI-enabled experiences, workflow design, product evaluation, and data dependencies
• Strong partnership skills across Engineering, UX, Architecture, Data, Content, Marketing, and business stakeholders
• Ability to balance speed, quality, responsible AI, technical constraints, and user value
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Systems thinking – seeing how changes ripple through the organization
• Advanced Excel Spreadsheet proficiency for KPI tracking, structuring information and reporting
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or a related discipline
• Must be 18 years of age or older to apply
• Product Management experience is highly desirable
• Advanced degree preferred
• Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following: