About Tribe AI

Tribe transforms Fortune 1000 enterprises into AI-native companies. We map where AI creates billions in value, build it to production, and enable your team to run it. We're not a consulting firm handing you a roadmap — we're builders. We embed senior practitioners shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, ship real systems, and transfer capability so your team owns what we build.

We partner with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — we see their roadmaps before they're public. We know what's possible today, what's coming next month, and when to build custom vs. when new tools make it obsolete. We've been 100% AI-focused since founding in 2019 — not as a practice we bolted on, but as the only thing we've ever done.

About the Role

We're looking for product and strategy practitioners who can parachute into enterprise AI programs and make them go. You're the person who scopes the problem, shapes what gets built, designs how it works for users, and keeps the whole thing pointed at business outcomes — not just technical milestones.

This is a contract role (1099, 20–40 hrs/week) staffed on a project basis. You'll be matched to engagements based on your skills and experience, working alongside Tribe's forward-deployed engineering teams embedded with clients. All candidates go through the same assessment process we use across Tribe — same bar, same process, regardless of engagement type. Strong performers who are interested in full-time opportunities are encouraged to apply; this pipeline feeds both.

This role spans what many companies split across product management, AI strategy, and design. At Tribe, we need people who can move fluidly between all three — running discovery with a CAIO one day, writing product specs with engineers the next, and pressure-testing whether an AI workflow actually makes sense for the humans who'll use it. You don't need to be a designer by trade, but you need to think in terms of user experience and know when a technically impressive system is failing the people it's supposed to serve.

What You'll Do

• Lead discovery and scoping for AI engagements — translating executive-level business objectives into concrete product plans that engineering teams can build against
• Define product vision, success metrics, and prioritized backlogs for AI systems embedded in enterprise workflows
• Shape the user experience of AI-powered products — ensuring what gets built is usable, adoptable, and drives measurable behavior change
• Own delivery end-to-end: run client status, manage stakeholders up to C-suite, and make hard prioritization calls when scope, timeline, and ambiguity collide
• Partner with forward-deployed engineers and architects to make build vs. buy decisions grounded in what's technically feasible and what's strategically right
• Drive strategic transformation programs — map where AI creates value across a client's business, sequence the work, and build the case for expansion

About You

• 7+ years in product management, AI strategy, or a hybrid role — with significant time spent client-facing or in professional services environments
• You've led complex technical product initiatives from discovery through production in enterprise settings
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities and their practical applications — you know what LLMs can and can't do, when to build custom, and when to buy
• Exceptional at translating between business stakeholders and engineering teams. You're credible in both rooms
• Comfortable with ambiguity, messy organizational dynamics, and engagements where the problem statement isn't handed to you
• You think in terms of outcomes and adoption, not just features shipped. You measure success by whether the client's team actually uses what you built
• Experience with design thinking, user research, or product design is a strong plus — you don't just spec features, you shape experiences