Senior Product Manager - AI Applications
Job Description
Drive product strategy and delivery for AI-powered capabilities across Reynolds and Reynolds CRM and DMS platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute the roadmap for AI-enabled features across CRM and DMS applications
- Evaluate and compare open-weight and hosted models using metrics such as quality, latency, cost, and risk
- Lead build-versus-buy decisions covering hosting and fine-tuning of AI/ML models
- Define objective evaluation approaches to measure feature effectiveness for automotive dealers
- Develop requirements and provide guidance to engineering teams to support collaborative decision-making
- Manage relationships with model and infrastructure vendors, including alignment, negotiation, and escalation
- Partner with Legal on data usage, privacy compliance, and AI disclosure regulations
- Include cost and efficiency analysis in product recommendations and business cases
- Mentor and support early-career product managers through feedback and review (no direct reports)
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience
- At least 3 years directly owning AI or machine learning products
- Experience in automotive retail technology or dealership software (highly valued, not required)
- Deep understanding of open-weight models and trade-offs between self-hosting and API-based solutions
- Proven delivery of LLM-based features, including prompt engineering, retrieval augmentation, tool integrations, and guardrails
- Experience with model evaluation, including test sets, benchmarking, and quality metrics
- Ability to discuss technical topics with engineers (latency, rate limits, context windows) without coding requirements
- Strong grasp of usage-based economics and cost structures
Work Location
- Dayton, OH (hybrid)
- Hybrid remote in Dayton, OH 45430
Compensation
- $100,000 - $110,000 per year
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and a health savings account
- 401(k) with up to 6% matching
- Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays
- Work-from-home days based on position eligibility (up to two days per week after completion of your training period, if eligible)
- Referral bonuses
- Professional development and training
- Promotion from within
- Associate discounts for cell phones, cars, computers, entertainment, and much more
- Onsite dining facility offering complimentary breakfast and lunch
- Fitness center
- Onsite medical center
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching