Overview

An AI Product Manager is the person who holds the line between what a model can do, what a customer actually wants, and what a business can responsibly ship. They are as comfortable reading an eval report as they are rewriting a positioning deck. They translate technical reality into roadmap decisions the whole company can execute against.

Radical AI PMs are selected through APAC, which means you are hiring someone who can make judgement calls under ambiguity, not only someone who has shipped features before. They have been tested on the communication and reasoning that makes an AI product team work, not just on their CV.

Best fits are companies with strong engineering but a gap between model capability and product clarity. Teams shipping AI features but struggling to define the right success metrics. Product organisations that need someone who can hold the AI and the business view simultaneously.

01·What this role does

What this role does

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Sets and maintains an AI product strategy grounded in customer evidence
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Works directly with researchers and engineers on trade-offs around cost, quality, and time
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Defines success metrics that go beyond model accuracy and into business outcome
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Partners with go-to-market on pricing, positioning, and responsible use
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Owns the risk register for AI features: safety, bias, privacy, and compliance

02·Skills & experience

Skills and experience we look for

Proven product management experience in a data- or AI-led context

Fluent in evaluation, experimentation, and A/B testing

Comfortable in technical conversations without pretending to be the engineer

Strong written communication: specs, decisions, trade-offs on the record

Awareness of EU AI Act obligations and how they shape roadmap decisions

03·How you engage

Typical engagement types

Permanent

Full-time product leader for an AI portfolio — accountable for strategy, roadmap, and outcome metrics across the long term.

Interim

Fixed-term engagement to set direction, unstick a roadmap, or bridge the gap between technical capability and product delivery.

Secondment

A Radical works embedded in your team under a shared engagement structure, providing senior product leadership without a permanent headcount commitment.

04·Why Radical

The APAC difference

Every Radical clears the APAC assessment before the shortlist.

APAC is our framework for evaluating the human qualities that make great AI professionals: Adaptability, Personality, Awareness, Connection. You are hiring for judgement, not only for a CV. Read the full method and findings in our research paper.

The best AI professionals are not busy on LinkedIn Open To Work. They are already building. We know them, and we know how to reach them, because we spend time with them.

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