CDK Global is looking to lead the development and execution of their AI strategy across their automotive SaaS ecosystem to drive agentic AI strategy and deliver platform-wide AI capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, particularly around agentic AI, LLM orchestration, Retrieval-Augmented Generations (RAG), and prompt engineering.
- Deep expertise in GenAI, NLP, time-series forecasting, or recommender systems
- Demonstrated experience in OpenAI APIs, Snowflake, Databricks
- Demonstrated success leading platform or infrastructure-level product initiatives in a SaaS environment.
- Experience working with data science and engineering teams on experimental and production-ready models.
- Experience with MLOps, feature stores, or AI observability tools is a plus.
- Experience with model deployment tools (i.e. FastAPI, Docker) and Cloud ML platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead the centralized Agentic AI strategy and maintain a scalable roadmap that aligns with business and product objectives.
- Serve as the platform AI lead, partnering with other product managers to identify and collect cross-product AI feature requests and use cases.
- Prioritize and scope AI features in collaboration with data science and engineering, ensuring feasibility, value, and scalability.
- Drive a modular platform approach to AI agents, enabling product teams to build and manage their own agents within a common framework.
- Define and manage cross-product capabilities such as prompt management, orchestration, observability, and agent evaluation.
- Represent AI initiatives in product planning sessions and executive reviews, ensuring alignment across teams.
- Translate complex AI concepts into clear product requirements and customer value stories for internal and external stakeholders.
Other
- 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 6 years focused on AI/ML, data platforms, or developer tools.
- Deep product sense and ability to balance long-term platform scalability with short-term delivery needs.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfortable navigating matrixed organizations and influencing without authority.
- Automotive, enterprise SaaS, or vertical SaaS experience preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or graduate degree a plus.
- Remote (with flexibility to work from the Austin, TX office as desired or needed)
