Principal AI-First Product Manager

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BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

Build the product system that turns deep mainframe expertise into trusted, governed AI experiences at enterprise scale.

We are looking for a Principal AI-First Product Manager to join the BMC AMI Platform team. You will define and drive the product strategy for shared AI and agentic capabilities that enable AMI product teams to deliver intelligent, connected workflows across mainframe operations, data, development, and security.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for a product leader who can move fluently between customer problems, AI technology, platform strategy, commercial outcomes, and delivery execution. You will turn emerging capabilities in generative AI and agentic systems into differentiated, trustworthy products that customers can adopt in mission-critical environments.

• AI-first product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a major AMI Platform area, spanning agentic orchestration, common intelligence services, governance, observability, knowledge, integrations, and user experiences.
• A portfolio of customer problems and use cases, prioritized by customer value, strategic differentiation, feasibility, reusable platform leverage, and business impact.
• End-to-end product outcomes from discovery and validation through build, launch, adoption, measurement, and iteration.
• The product definition of safe, observable, accountable autonomy, including human oversight, policy controls, auditability, evaluation, and operational readiness.
• Commercialization and adoption plans, including packaging inputs, pricing hypotheses, business cases, enablement, design-partner programs, and success metrics.

• Define a clear product strategy and roadmap that connects AMI Platform investments to customer outcomes and portfolio growth.
• Lead customer discovery with mainframe leaders, practitioners, and enterprise AI stakeholders; convert insights into validated problems, requirements, and differentiated product bets.
• Shape AI-native and agentic experiences, including assistants, specialized agents, coordinated workflows, tool use, knowledge grounding, and cross-domain orchestration.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, UX, AI Engineering, Data Science, Quality and Evaluation, Security, SRE, and portfolio product teams to make high-quality tradeoffs and deliver scalable platform capabilities.
• Define measurable product success across user value, agent and task success, quality, trust, adoption, retention, latency, reliability, cost, and business impact.
• Set product requirements for evaluation, guardrails, governance, RBAC, audit, observability, explainability, and human-in-the-loop controls appropriate for enterprise and regulated environments.
• Drive 0-to-1 and MVP development with disciplined hypotheses, prototypes, design partners, and evidence-based decisions, then scale successful patterns across products and customers.
• Balance common platform capabilities with domain-specific needs, avoiding one-off solutions while creating practical paths to customer value.
• Develop business cases, competitive analysis,…