Senior Product Manager - Build Auto Review

About Co Lab
At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.

About the Role
We're hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead one of the most ambitious bets at CoLab: building AI-powered review systems that help engineering teams identify issues before they become expensive downstream problems.

This team owns Auto Review — the capabilities that proactively surface risks, patterns, missing context, and engineering concerns across complex design workflows. The goal isn't to replace engineers. It's to help them make better decisions, faster, using the collective knowledge generated across every review inside CoLab.

This is a difficult product problem. You'll be operating at the intersection of AI, engineering workflows, enterprise trust, and product usability. The hard part isn't simply building AI features — it's building products technical teams actually trust enough to use in high-stakes environments.

You'll work closely with Engineering, Design, ML/AI teams, and customers to determine how to create tools that deliver real customer value. Some weeks you'll be deep in workflow discovery with customers. Other weeks you'll be making prioritization calls across model capabilities, UX tradeoffs, and platform constraints.

This role requires strong product judgment. There's no playbook for this category yet.

You won't thrive here if you're looking for highly predictable roadmaps, lightweight consumer problems, or environments where Product simply coordinates delivery. We need someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and help the team make hard decisions quickly.

The average person might think this role sounds overwhelming. If it sounds energizing, you'll probably fit right in.

Our Ideal Candidate
You're deeply curious about how complex systems work — both technical systems and human ones.

You know how to navigate ambiguity without creating chaos. You can hold a strong product perspective while staying highly collaborative with technical teams. You ask thoughtful questions, seek signals quickly, and care deeply about whether customers genuinely trust and adopt what you build.

You likely have experience building technical B2B SaaS products, especially products involving AI-assisted workflows, automation, recommendations, or decision support systems.

You probably won't enjoy this role if:

You need fully defined requirements before moving work forward

You treat AI as a branding exercise instead of a product problem

You avoid technical complexity

You optimize for shipping volume, customer trust and product quality

Job Responsibilities

Own product strategy and execution for CoLab's Auto Review capabilities

Partner closely with AI/ML Teams, Engineering, and Design to define and ship intelligent workflow experiences

Identify high-value opportunities for automation and AI-assisted decision making within engineering reviews

Conduct deep customer research to understand workflow pain points, trust barriers, and adoption patterns

Define product requirements and make prioritization trade-offs across UX, technical feasibility, and business impact

Use qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate product effectiveness and customer outcomes

Help shape CoLab's long-term AI product strategy

Collaborate cross-functionally with GTM teams to support launches, positioning, and customer adoption

Drive clarity and momentum in highly ambiguous problem spaces

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in Product Management for B2B SaaS products

Experience building AI-enabled, workflow automation, or recommendation-driven products is required.

Experience with AI/ML-powered enterprise products

Strong product judgment and systems thinking

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Experience working closely with highly technical Engineering teams

Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

Ability to simplify complex technical concepts into clear customer value

Bonus points for

Experience building products for engineering, manufacturing, CAD, or industrial workflows

Experience working on trust-sensitive systems where accuracy and explainability matter

Familiarity with human-in-the-loop workflow design

Extra Details

This is a full-time, permanent position with a competitive compensation package that includes stock options.

This role offers an extended health and benefits package that includes unlimited paid vacation and RRSP matching.

Our main office location is in St. John's, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities.

This role has the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in North America.

Equity Note
Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don't meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.

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