Product Manager

What you'll do

• Work with the founders, engineers, and researchers to turn Alpha Z’s capabilities into a practical, usable product.
• Translate user problems into clear requirements, user flows, prototypes, and acceptance criteria.
• Break down product priorities into actionable tasks and drive execution through development, testing and release.
• Design AI-powered workflows connecting problem understanding, optimization modeling, solver execution, and result interpretation, with appropriate user review and validation.
• Build representative test cases with researchers and engineers, gather user feedback, and drive improvements in quality and usability.

What we look for

• A strong background in Operations Research or a related quantitative field, with hands-on experience formulating and solving optimization problems. Academic, research, and industry projects are all relevant.
• Strong execution and attention to detail: able to turn ambiguous ideas into clear tasks and follow through to delivery.
• Experience building or prototyping AI-enabled workflows, with an understanding of tool use, human review, failure handling, and output validation.
• Technical fluency to work closely with engineers, understand APIs and data flows, and use Python for basic analysis or prototyping.
• Clear communication and product judgment, with an ability to make complex technical workflows understandable to users.
• Active use of AI tools for research, prototyping, documentation, or testing, with responsibility for the quality of their outputs.
• Ideally 1–3 years of relevant experience. Recent graduates with strong project experience are welcome; prior product management experience is not required.