Applied AI Product Manager (Forward Deployed)

About the Position

Join EPAM as an Applied AI Product Manager (Forward Deployed) to transform complex business challenges into AI solutions that deliver real value. EPAM’s Applied AI exists to put frontier AI to work inside real businesses - sitting with clients, from the CTO to the people doing the actual job, and turning ambitious, often fuzzy goals into AI solutions that ship and create real value. The work runs from helping a workforce use AI well, to rebuilding a whole process around agents, to launching brand-new AI-native products.

We’re looking for an Applied AI Product Manager (Forward Deployed) to own that journey - from the first messy conversation to a live system that earns or saves real money. It’s hands-on and client-facing: you’re the client’s main point of contact, you decide what gets built and why, you run delivery through to a working system, and you prototype solutions yourself rather than handing every idea off. You hold the why and the what; engineering, data and architecture build alongside you for production scale.

Responsibilities

• Build, don’t just brief. Prototype working AI solutions and demos yourself, with modern tooling, to prove the idea in pre-sales and get to value fast.
• Own the client relationship. Be the day-to-day partner and point of contact, earning trust across the organization and staying straight about trade-offs.
• Shape what we build and why. Turn vague, high-stakes goals into a sharp problem statement, a solution, and a definition of success everyone signs up to.
• Carry it through. Lead the shaping in pre-sales as a full member of the team, then stay on into delivery so nothing is lost in the handover.
• Run the room. Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders, and bring the clarity when the brief is fuzzy or the client changes direction.
• Make the case. Build the business case and the ROI story so clients can invest with confidence.
• Drive adoption. Work on rollout and change so what you build actually gets used - then feed the lessons back into how we work.

Requirements

• You build with AI, hands-on. You actively prototype with the current toolset - and you reach for them in your own work by default.
• You’ve delivered AI into production. A track record of taking AI agents or AI-native features all the way into live client use.
• Customer-facing, high-stakes experience. You’ve led work where stakeholders weren’t aligned, and the path wasn’t obvious. Roughly 5+ years in product, consulting.
• Deep in one vertical. Real domain depth in at least one industry - Financial Services, Retail Banking, Insurance, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Retail or Travel & Hospitality.
• A real product and value mindset. You’re at home with 0→1 product innovation: building from a blank page, under ambiguity, without a playbook.
• GenAI fluency. Working knowledge of LLMs, prompting, RAG, embeddings and vector databases, agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• You can be heard in the room. You ask sharp questions, structure chaos, and move from whiteboarding with execs to a crisp brief for engineers without losing the thread.
• Bias for action. You jump into the gaps - a rough prototype over a weekend, a workshop, a demo at short notice - to keep things moving.

Nice to Have

• Pre-sales and solution-shaping experience with senior client stakeholders.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work remotely from Poland
• Professional growth and development

About the Company

EPAM is a global software engineering and product development company, delivering digital platforms and large-scale software solutions to Fortune 500 clients. We are committed to innovation and excellence in technology, and we are looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our team.