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[Remote] AI Product Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. John Deere is hiring an AI Product Manager to build and scale AI-powered parts experiences across Shop.Deere.com, Deere.com, and Unified Parts Experience. The role owns the Parts AI product lifecycle and coordinates reusable capabilities across platforms, while supporting internal AI opportunities through cross-functional delivery, governance, and adoption.
Responsibilities
- Own the product and outcomes: Define the AI agents needed, value proposition, objectives, roadmap, and measurable customer, dealer, and business outcomes for Parts AI
- Lead a dedicated development team: Provide day-to-day product direction, prioritize the backlog, make scope tradeoffs, remove ambiguity, and move capabilities from discovery through production
- Discover and validate user problems: Conduct customer and dealer discovery, identify high-value workflows, test concepts, and validate that AI is solving meaningful problems
- Translate needs into buildable work: Define journeys, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, data needs, guardrails, and release decisions in partnership with UX, Engineering, Architecture, Data, and Content
- Deliver and operate AI products: Lead pilots, phased releases, production readiness, monitoring, issue prioritization, and continuous improvement
- Own AI product quality: Establish evaluation criteria for accuracy, relevance, task completion, safety, and user trust; use findings to prioritize improvements
- Drive adoption and business impact: Partner with product, marketing, dealer, regional, and support teams to embed capabilities in workflows and measure utilization and value
- Orchestrate across DEC: Coordinate shared skills, tools, data sources, and interaction patterns so each platform can consume common Parts AI capabilities without duplicating development
- Prioritize AI work with teams using business value, demand, and support capacity
- Share company and industry AI insights to encourage reuse of proven work and reduce duplication
- Provide agent-building guidance, including instructions, templates, and reusable patterns for designing, testing, and deploying AI agents
- Coach teams through use-case testing, alongside AI Champions, and help review results before expansion
- Own program metrics, agree measures and baselines with teams, and review project status and before-and-after results
- Review evidence with team leads to inform continuation, adaptation, or stopping; the leadership sponsor approves the next phase
Skills
- VISA Sponsorship is NOT available for this position
- Product management experience delivering complex digital products with a cross-functional development team
- Experience owning discovery, roadmap, backlog, requirements, release decisions, and measurable outcomes
- Ability to translate customer, dealer, and business needs into scalable product capabilities
- Understanding of AI-enabled experiences, workflow design, product evaluation, and data dependencies
- Strong partnership skills across Engineering, UX, Architecture, Data, Content, Marketing, and business stakeholders
- Ability to balance speed, quality, responsible AI, technical constraints, and user value
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Systems thinking – seeing how changes ripple through the organization
- Advanced Excel Spreadsheet proficiency for KPI tracking, structuring information and reporting
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science or a related discipline
- Product Management experience is highly desirable
- Advanced degree preferred
- Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
- Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Tuition assistance
- Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
- Charitable contribution match
- Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
- Vacation and Holiday Pay
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