Product Manager — Core Platform

Field Ai
Irvine, CA
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in security or urban operations and a background in product management for SaaS or software.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with mid-level product management experience in SaaS or software and domain expertise in security or urban operations
    — “Proven product management experience (5+ years), including shipping SaaS or software products end to end.”
  • Those who have successfully prioritized customer problems and translated them into product scope and technical solutions
    — “Deep customer empathy and strong discovery skills — you turn messy field reality into a prioritized problem list, not a wish list.”

Things to consider

  • This role demands a high level of technical collaboration with engineering teams on a daily basis
    — “Partner with engineering day to day — lead the technical discussions that turn a customer problem into the most elegant solution”
  • The hybrid work arrangement requires a commitment to in-office presence in Irvine, CA
    — “[Location: Irvine, CA · Hybrid]”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to translate customer problems into clear technical requirements and product scope
    — “Own the roadmap and the scope — define, sequence, and commit scope with clear acceptance criteria”
  • Showcase experience in building and deploying real-time systems or edge inference technologies
    — “Familiarity with computer vision, edge inference, or real-time detection and alerting systems.”
  • Demonstrate your go-to-market experience by including relevant sales enablement or positioning work in your resume
    — “Own go-to-market for the vertical — shape the positioning and narrative, build sales-enablement materials”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • own the customer problem and turn it into a prioritized problem list
  • define, sequence, and commit scope with clear acceptance criteria
  • partner with engineering day to day and lead technical discussions
Typical background
5+ years of proven product management experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Product Management ExperienceSecurity Or Urban-operations Industry ExperienceCustomer Empathy And Strong Discovery SkillsAbility To Own Scope And Drive Crisp Technical Discussions

Preferred

Experience With Physical Security, Surveillance, Or Urban/facility Operations

Stack & domain

Product ManagementSaasSecurityUrban OperationsAutonomyComputer VisionHardwareCustomer EmpathyCommunicationDiscovery SkillsProblem-solvingConstruction SitesFacilitiesField OperationsSurveillance

About the role

Original posting from Field Ai via Lever

Product Manager — Security & Urban Operations (Perception & Intelligence)

Make the edge see, understand, and report — before anything goes wrong.

[Location: Irvine, CA · Hybrid]   ·   [Full-time]

About Field AI

   Field AI builds field foundation models that bring real autonomy to robots working in the physical world — on construction sites, across facilities, and out in the field. We automate the dull, dirty, and dangerous work across the entire lifecycle of an asset, delivering immediate value to the people who build, operate, and own it, and turning every piece of data we collect into queryable insight. Our edge is generalization: autonomy that transfers across sites, customers, and industries instead of being rebuilt for each one.

About the role

  Urban operations is where Field AI’s intelligence has to be right in real time, at the edge, with property and sometimes safety on the line. You’ll own our detection and intelligence product line: real-time perception that turns raw sensor feeds into decisions, and the reporting and dashboards that turn detections into action. Your work is the difference between a system that merely records and one that understands — and between an operator buried in false alarms and one who trusts the single alert that matters.

What you’ll do

Own the customer problem — run discovery with customers, field teams, and deployment engineers, and turn what you hear into a prioritized, evidence-backed problem list, not a wish list.

Own the roadmap and the scope — define, sequence, and commit scope with clear acceptance criteria, replacing vague, half-finished requirements with crisp ones engineering can build.

Partner with engineering day to day — lead the technical discussions that turn a customer problem into the most elegant solution, not the first one.

Run a disciplined intake — rank needs in priority order: customer feedback first, then field and deployment engineers, then development engineers, so the loudest wish never outranks the real need.

Own go-to-market for the vertical — shape the positioning and narrative, build sales-enablement materials, and partner closely with sales as the product’s voice for the industry.

Calibrate with data — close the loop with usage data and field feedback; retire what isn’t landing and double down on what is.

Build on the platform — partner with the core platform team and build once, so every solution generalizes to the next customer and the next site.

What you’ll own

The detection and intelligence product line — real-time perception and scene understanding running at the edge, plus the reporting and insights UI  that turn detections into operator decisions.

The full customer journey for security and urban-operations accounts, in close partnership with our field deployment teams.

What we’re looking for

Proven product management experience (5+ years), including shipping SaaS or software products end to end.

Security or urban-operations industry experience — you’ve built for, sold into, or worked hands-on with physical security, surveillance, or urban / facility operations, and you understand how these buyers evaluate, procure, and deploy.

Deep customer empathy and strong discovery skills — you turn messy field reality into a prioritized problem list, not a wish list.

A track record of owning scope — defining it, sequencing it, and committing to it — and driving crisp technical discussions with engineers.

Excellent communication — you can shape a go-to-market narrative and enable a sales team as the product’s voice for the vertical.

Bonus points

Robotics, autonomy, computer vision, or hardware experience — a strong plus.

Familiarity with computer vision, edge inference, or real-time detection and alerting systems.

Why Field AIYou’ll own a product line at a company bringing real autonomy to the physical world — working directly with marquee customers and a world-class robotics and AI team, with the mandate to turn a genuinely hard problem into a product an entire industry runs on.

Source: Field Ai careers (Lever)

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