Director of Product Management, AI Platform

About Us:

Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the "last mile" of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings.

Location: Seattle, WA

Company Overview:

Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings.

Job Description:

Are you passionate about building robust, self-service platforms that empower users to leverage cutting-edge AI for complex business processes? Do you thrive on defining and executing product strategies for highly automated, agentic AI solutions? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as the Director of Product Management for our core AI Platform at Trase Systems.

We are looking for a customer-obsessed and mission-driven product leader with a strong sense of ownership who can help us shape the future of AI-lead automation. As Director of Product Management, you will define the vision and strategy for our foundational AI platform, enabling users to seamlessly define, build, deploy, and manage agentic AI solutions across various systems and data sources. You will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership from defining strategy, building a comprehensive product roadmap, writing detailed specifications, to evangelizing the platform and ensuring a timely and high-quality delivery. You will work closely with customers, engineering, UI/UX, marketing, sales, and pre-sales to build a platform that customers love for its ease of use, power, and reliability.

The ideal candidate for this role is a pragmatic visionary who can translate complex business needs into intuitive, automated AI solutions. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within a dynamic environment, often operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous landscape.

Scope of Activities:

• Platform Strategy & Vision: Define a comprehensive strategy and vision for a cloud-based AI agent platform that enables users to automate business processes. This includes identifying potential automation opportunities, enabling seamless self-setup and management, and supporting customization.
• Product Roadmap Development: Build and manage a detailed near and long-term product roadmap for the core platform. This will encompass:
• User Flow & Experience Design: Translate the end-to-end platform user flow into actionable product requirements. This includes:
• Architecture & Scalability: Actively participate in architecture discussions, driving decisions for a scalable, secure, and long-term solution.
• Validation & Quality Assurance: Champion the platform's validation capabilities, ensuring full auditability with detailed reasoning traces. Explore and implement AI tools for automated testing and validation of AI solutions.
• Product Evangelism: Articulate and share the platform vision at conferences and with strategic customers and partners. Create relevant collateral including presentations, whitepapers, and documentation to demonstrate value and impact.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Develop strong relationships with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to ensure successful product development and adoption. Work closely with customers to determine key use cases and product capabilities.
• Market Intelligence: Be the expert on the competitive landscape for AI platforms, automation tools, and agentic frameworks, strategically positioning Trase Systems for market leadership.

Credentials and Experience:

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in the software industry, specifically in product management for AI products, developer tools, or complex enterprise SaaS solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with AI/ML technologies, particularly in building or managing platforms that facilitate the development and deployment of AI agents.
• Deep domain knowledge of cloud application development solutions and Platform as a Service (PaaS), with a strong understanding of secure and scalable AI deployments.
• Experience with data integration, workflow automation, and process optimization.
• Ability to effectively communicate to stakeholders at all levels of the organization—from technical users to executive decision-makers—with excellent written, oral, and presentation skills.
• Self-starter with a growth mindset, adaptability, and a strong bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills, including the ability to present complex product concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization and to customers.

Benefits:

• 100% employer-paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning with educational reimbursements.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits through TARA Mind.

Some travel required.

If you want to be on the cutting edge of AI technology, building transformative AI platforms that empower organizations to achieve unprecedented automation, and are up for a significant challenge, let’s talk.

Salary Range: $235,000-$270,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.