Staff Product Manager, Technical

About the Position

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. We design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations and deliver measurable results for our clients. We're all in on AWS, combining deep UX capability with senior engineering talent to get AI into production fast and keep it there.

We’ve earned the trust of leaders across Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing and more, and earned a reputation as the nimble alternative to traditional global systems integrators. Founded in 2009, with delivery centers in Canada, the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, we are smaller, faster, and more senior by design. Our teams average 15+ years of experience. We move fast, sweat the details, and build things that actually ship.

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive product vision and strategy across the engagements they support. This role is ideal for a deeply experienced product leader who owns the hardest product challenges, serves as the senior product voice in client relationships, and shapes how product management is practiced at Robots & Pencils.

Responsibilities

• Craft & Delivery

  • Drive product vision and strategy on the engagements you support, owning direction for the most complex, high-stakes digital products
  • Define product operating models, discovery practices, and delivery standards for the engagement
  • Own the most difficult product challenges - framing problems, aligning stakeholders, and driving resolution at scale
  • Define success frameworks and use data, research, and user insight to evaluate outcomes and shape product direction
  • Identify opportunities to improve how product is practiced across the engagement and contribute those learnings back to R&P
  • Bring an AI-forward mindset to your daily work, using tools like Claude to drive efficiency, research synthesis, and product thinking at scale

• Collaboration & Communication

  • Partner with senior leadership and client executives as the principal product advisor, shaping product vision and direction at the engagement level
  • Represent product thinking at the leadership level, influencing how strategy, delivery, and technology decisions are made
  • Lead the most complex stakeholder forums, workshops, and executive-level discussions

• Leadership & Influence

  • Define and champion product delivery standards and best practices on the engagements you support
  • Mentor experienced PMs, helping them grow their product judgment, strategic thinking, and client impact
  • Own the most difficult product decisions, serving as the senior product decision-maker on complex tradeoffs
  • Contribute to business development, proposals, and the growth of R&P's product management practice

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product management, with a strong record in consultative or enterprise environments
• Demonstrated track record of defining product vision and strategy at the program or portfolio level for complex, high-stakes digital initiatives, with measurable business impact
• Expert-level client advisory skills and experience influencing at the executive level
• Deep experience leading discovery, roadmapping, and delivery across large, multi-stakeholder organizations
• Track record of mentoring senior product managers and shaping team-level PM practices
• Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to align engineering, design, strategy, and business at scale
• Experience defining product metrics, success frameworks, and iterative delivery models
• Deep applied experience with AI tools to drive efficiency, research synthesis, and product thinking at scale (e.g., Claude)
• Deep consulting or professional services delivery experience, with the gravitas to act as the primary product voice with senior client stakeholders and the discipline to deliver under client constraints
• Experience contributing to business development, proposals, or practice growth is a plus
• A formed point of view on how AI is reshaping product management, with the credibility to influence both client and internal thinking

Nice to Have

• Comfort prototyping with AI tools to validate product hypotheses (e.g., Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot), de-risking decisions before engineering invests in them
• Working fluency in GenAI fundamentals - LLMs, RAG, prompt and context engineering, and where models break - enough to frame the right product questions with engineering and clients
• Hands-on contribution to AI-powered products - features, prompts, evals.
• External presence in the product or AI product community (writing, speaking, advisory work) that builds external pull for the firm.
• Vertical depth in one or more of Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, or Manufacturing

We Offer

• Competitive salary range of $170,000 CAD - $225,000 CAD
• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees
• Opportunity to work remotely from Canada or the US

About the Company

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm building the next frontier of business architecture. We design and ship AI co-workers that integrate into enterprise operations and deliver measurable results for our clients. We're all in on AWS, combining deep UX capability with senior engineering talent to get AI into production fast and keep it there.

We’ve earned the trust of leaders across Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing and more, and earned a reputation as the nimble alternative to traditional global systems integrators. Founded in 2009, with delivery centers in Canada, the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, we are smaller, faster, and more senior by design. Our teams average 15+ years of experience. We move fast, sweat the details, and build things that actually ship.