Director, AI Product Management

About this role

ABOUT PER SCHOLAS:

For 30 years, Per Scholas has been on a mission to drive mobility and opportunity in the ever-advancing technology landscape by unlocking the untapped potential of individuals, uplifting communities, and meeting the needs of employers through rigorous tech training. By teaming up with dynamic employer partners, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups, we're forging inclusive tech talent pipelines, fulfilling an ever-increasing need for skilled talent. With national remote training and campuses in 20+ cities and counting, Per Scholas offers no-cost training programs in the most sought-after tech skills, spanning Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, IT Support, Software Engineering, and more. To date, 30,000+ individuals have been trained through Per Scholas, propelling their professional trajectories into high-growth tech careers with salaries three times higher than their pre-training earnings. Learn more by visiting PerScholas.org and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Per Scholas preferred hires reside within the following states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, WA

POSITION TITLE: Director, AI Product Management

REPORTS TO: Senior Vice President, AI Product Management

The Role

As Director, AI Product Management you will serve as the primary requirements analyst and solution evaluator within the AI Tech Solutions team. While contributing across the full product lifecycle — Evaluation, Planning, Implementation, Adoption, and Support — your defining strength will be in the upstream discipline of understanding what users actually need and rigorously validating whether proposed solutions meet those needs. You will work cross-functionally with departments across Per Scholas to translate business challenges into clearly documented requirements, facilitate structured discovery sessions, and apply analytical frameworks to evaluate and recommend technical products. This role complements the existing Senior Directors on the team by bringing disciplined process orientation and deep attention to requirements integrity.

What You'll Do

Requirements Discovery & Business Analysis

• Lead structured requirements gathering sessions with functional teams, employing workshops, interviews, contextual inquiry, and other proven elicitation techniques to surface stated and unstated needs

• Translate business challenges into clearly documented requirements artifacts — including user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and decision matrices

• Develop and maintain user personas grounded in real usage data and stakeholder input, ensuring product decisions are anchored to defined user needs

• Evaluate candidate solutions against documented requirements using structured criteria (business fit, technical feasibility, user experience, financial impact), producing actionable recommendation briefs

• Serve as the team's quality gate for requirements completeness — ensuring no product moves into development or procurement without validated, well-documented needs

Solution Evaluation & Validation

• Design and facilitate solution validation activities (demos, proof-of-concept reviews, pilot evaluations) to confirm that proposed or in-development products meet documented requirements

• Develop and apply evaluation rubrics that weigh business, technical, user experience, and financial considerations in a repeatable and transparent manner

• Partner with technical SMEs to assess feasibility constraints and identify gaps between user needs and proposed solution capabilities

• Track requirement traceability through implementation, flagging scope drift or unmet acceptance criteria

Product Lifecycle Support

• Manage a portfolio of assigned AI products across the lifecycle, with particular emphasis on the Evaluation and Planning phases

• Support product adoption by ensuring implementation fidelity to documented requirements and by contributing to user-facing documentation and training materials

• Monitor product utilization data and user feedback post-launch, using findings to inform iteration priorities and identify unmet needs

• Engage vendors on product capabilities, roadmap alignment, and issue resolution as it pertains to your assigned products

Process Development & Documentation

• Create and maintain standardized templates, workflows, and artifacts for requirements gathering, solution…