Job Details

Job Title: AI Product Manager
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months Temp to Perm
Position Type: Hourly contract Position (W2 only)

Note:

• SCHEDULE/ REMOTE FLEXIBILITY: Primary EST Hours, additional flexibility needed
• HOURS PER WEEK:40 max
• TEAM SIZE: 6 person team
• PURPOSE/ MISSION OF TEAM: Client is a new team to develop software and AI solutions across the Client Portfolio of Products with a mission to increase software.

Job Details:
What Makes Someone Great:

• Intellectually curious about complex industrial problems in energy, supply chain, manufacturing
• Rapid learner who context-switches across industries effectively
• Comfortable proposing frameworks that create clarity from ambiguity
• Builder mentality: ships products customers pay for, measures success by business outcomes
• Autonomous: figures things out without oversight
• Translation superpower: bridges technical and business worlds seamlessly
• Proactively raises questions about bias, fairness, and responsible AI use

• Nice-to-Haves:
• AI product experience in industrial companies (energy, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, industrial automation)
• Launched hardware products at scale (100K+ units)
• IoT product management for commercial/industrial applications
• Familiarity with edge AI, computer vision, predictive analytics, or industrial automation
• Corporate innovation or transformation role experience
• Experience working with Japanese companies and/or Japanese language abilities
• Additional Job Description
• What You'll Do
• Own end-to-end product development for AI/software solutions that enhance and monetize Panasonic's hardware
• Lead cross-functional innovation pods (5-10 people: engineers, strategists, GTM support)
• Translate customer problems into AI/ML solutions (e.g., predictive maintenance, energy optimization, supply chain intelligence, computer vision, intelligent automation)
• Work with data scientists and ML engineers to assess data quality, model viability, and technical feasibility
• Bridge hardware realities (sensors, connectivity, edge computing) with software/AI capabilities across the IoT stack
• Build credibility with business unit leaders and translate technical AI concepts for diverse audiences
• Run rapid experiments to validate product-market fit and define success metrics
• Create replicable playbooks for broader organizational adoption

What We're Looking For
Required:

• 10+ years in product management shipping AI/ML-powered products
• 0→1 product building experience in ambiguous environments
• Experience with physical products, IoT, or hardware-software integration
• Track record influencing without authority in matrixed organizations
• Technical fluency: engage confidently with data scientists/ML engineers on model architecture, training data, evaluation
• Understanding of AI/ML fundamentals: supervised/unsupervised learning, classification, prediction, generation, model evaluation
• Experience with generative AI products and LLM integration
• Familiarity with IoT stack: sensors, connectivity protocols, edge computing, cloud infrastructure
• Ability to translate business problems into clear AI/ML product requirements and lead cross-functional teams

Why This Role Matters For you: Rare transformation opportunity in a Fortune 500 company reimagining its business model. Build AI products across major industrial sectors with autonomy, access to Panasonic's scale and resources, and direct visibility to C-suite. Define AI product management practices that will scale across the organization. For Panasonic: Help evolve from hardware manufacturer to AI/software revenue generator. Create new business models that scale across business units. Establish replicable playbooks enabling Clientto achieve 30% AI-driven revenue by 2035.

Compensation:
The hourly rate for this position is between $90.00 -$100.00 per hour.

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].

Benefits: Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations

Contact:
Abdul Ajeej: ...@sunrisesys.com | 732-###-####| URL: www.sunrisesys.com