Forward Deployed Product Manager, Public Sector
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Overview
Scale AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Product Manager for the Public Sector to lead product efforts in military planning and real-time AI, driving deployments in classified environments and building relationships with senior stakeholders. At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact.
What You'll Do
- •Own product outcomes across Scale's military planning portfolio and/or its highest-impact national security accounts for LUX, spanning multiple DoW and National Security stakeholders and use cases.
- •Translate operational reality into high-signal product input for engineering and platform teams.
- •Build trusted advisory relationships with senior military leaders and National Security customer stakeholders.
- •Drive deployments from contract to production inside classified and operationally constrained environments.
- •Distinguish where the product is the constraint from where execution, integration, policy, or change management is the constraint.
- •Shape a cross-cutting set of solutions spanning multiple stakeholders, echelons, and use cases.
- •Partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) teams and Platform Capability teams.
- •Identify and develop expansion opportunities grounded in demonstrated customer value.
- •Represent customer reality to the platform and leadership.
What the Company Offers
- •Compensation packages include base salary, equity, and benefits.
- •Base salary range for this full-time position in New York is: $276,000 — $345,000 USD.
- •Base salary range for this full-time position in Washington DC is: $248,800 — $311,000 USD.
- •Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage.
- •Retirement benefits.
- •Learning and development stipend.
- •Generous PTO.
- •Additional benefits such as a commuter stipend may be available.
What We're Looking For
#### Core Competencies:
- •Enterprise deployment ownership: has driven AI/ML or complex/real-time software products from contract to production at scale.
- •Domain fluency: working knowledge of the military planning process and modeling/simulation tools.
- •Product judgment in the field: translates customer reality into product direction.
- •Customer trust-building: earns and maintains trust with demanding senior military and civilian stakeholders.
- •Technical translation: bridges the gap between customer engineering/planning teams and Scale platform engineers.
- •Operating in ambiguity and constrained environments: creates structure where there is none.
- •Clear, precise communication: adjusts for audience.
#### Must-Have:
- •Active TOP SECRET security clearance (TS/SCI eligibility preferred).
- •6+ years in product management or a customer-facing product ownership role.
- •Direct experience working with the U.S. Department of War or the broader U.S. national security community.
- •Working knowledge of military planning process and real-time streaming data systems.
- •Demonstrated record of shipping AI or data products into large, constrained organizations.
- •Strong judgment under pressure.
#### Nice-To-Have:
- •Direct experience with AI/ML platform products.
- •Hands-on familiarity with streaming technologies.
- •Experience in a startup or early-stage environment.