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Sherwin-Williams

Global paint and coatings manufacturer

Senior AI Product Manager

Product ManagementPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeCleveland, OH, USA$108.5k - $140.1k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or Business Administration, or at least seven years of technology product management experience in lieu of a degree.
  • At least four years of experience in technology product management, including launching and managing successful products at scale, and at least two years managing production-grade AI/ML, data, or analytics products.
  • In-depth knowledge of product development and launch processes, including agile methodologies.
  • In-depth knowledge of product innovation methodologies and leading practices.
  • Ability to conduct market research and analyze customer needs, market trends, and the competitive landscape.
  • Experience with AI/ML-enabled software product development, from proof of concept through scaled production deployment.
  • Knowledge of user experience design principles and customer-centric design thinking.
  • Knowledge of business processes, including IT, vendor management, the software development lifecycle, and the machine learning operations lifecycle.
  • Ability to translate complex technical solutions into business language.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, including predictive modeling, forecasting and optimization, generative AI, large language models, and agentic AI, sufficient to guide technical trade-offs with data science and engineering.
  • Knowledge of responsible AI principles, including bias, explainability, privacy, security, and human-in-the-loop design.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional pods without direct authority and partner with Enterprise Technology on platform and architecture decisions.
  • Experience defining model evaluation, experimentation (such as A/B or test-versus-control), and business value measurement approaches, including baselines, hypotheses, and pre-agreed success thresholds.
  • Understanding of data management and data product principles, including data quality, governance, and semantic layers.
  • Must be at least eighteen years of age.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
  • Technical skill areas include agile software development lifecycle and AI/ML lifecycle methodologies; agile project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps; product analytics and business intelligence tools, including SQL, Power BI, and Databricks SQL; customer relationship management; market research and competitive analysis; product strategy and planning; product risk management; modern delivery; product lifecycle management; demand and capacity management; technology domain knowledge; product optimization and growth strategy development; product requirements gathering and documentation; persona creation and journey mapping; reporting tools; AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot; Microsoft 365 and Power Platform; responsible AI and AI risk management; data and AI platforms such as Databricks, Microsoft Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Copilot Studio; AI/ML model evaluation and experimentation; generative and agentic AI solution design; and data product design and data governance.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute product strategy, including product roadmaps, priorities, release plans, budgeting, value cases, positioning, and messaging.
  • Define product requirements in partnership with the business and work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, sales, and marketing, to ensure the product vision is understood and executed.
  • Conduct user and market research and analysis to identify end-user needs, market trends, competitive threats, and emerging AI/ML capabilities.
  • Define, track, and report business value, adoption, and model performance metrics—including value realized, sustained adoption, time or cost saved, model quality, and cost per transaction or use—against baselines and success thresholds defined before the pilot; recommend whether to ship, iterate, or stop, and adjust strategy as needed.
  • Shape and prioritize the product backlog using business expertise, customer needs, and business value relative to development effort, including continuous experimentation after launch.
  • Manage the AI product development lifecycle from concept through proof of concept, MVP/pilot, and scaled deployment, ensuring timely, on-budget delivery that meets quality and responsible AI standards.
  • Own and manage product knowledge documentation.
  • Communicate product updates and progress to stakeholders and executive leadership, translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Analyze product and model performance, user adoption, and customer feedback to identify improvements and drive continuous product innovation, including ongoing post-launch experimentation.
  • Partner with data science and ML engineering to frame business problems as AI/ML use cases; define baselines, hypotheses, model evaluation criteria, and acceptance thresholds; design experimentation, including A/B or test-versus-control and causal inference when randomization is not possible; instrument business value measurement; and make trade-offs among accuracy, explainability, cost, and latency.
  • Partner with the technology team to industrialize AI-enabled products on enterprise data and AI platforms such as Databricks and Microsoft Azure, including MLOps, monitoring, drift detection, retraining triggers, post-launch evaluation, incident response, inference/token/compute cost management, and transition to run operations.
  • Ensure AI-enabled products comply with AI COE responsible AI, data privacy, security, and AI governance standards, including risk tiering, evaluation and red-teaming before scale, human-in-the-loop design, go/no-go recommendations with Legal, Privacy, and Cybersecurity, and risk mitigation.
  • Define and enforce data requirements for AI-enabled products, including data quality, lineage, and semantic layer standards for AI models, agents, and data products.
  • Define agentic AI product requirements, including autonomy levels, tool use, guardrails, and agent-specific evaluation for agents deployed to end users.
  • Drive end-user adoption and change management with business leaders, including training, process redesign, and feedback loops.

Desired Qualifications

  • Agile product management certification, such as PMI-ACP, SAFe POPM, PMC, or CSPO.
  • A master's degree in a quantitative or technical field, or an MBA.
  • AI/ML or data platform certification, such as Databricks or Microsoft Azure AI.

About the Company

Sherwin-Williams

Global paint and coatings manufacturer

Sherwin-Williams makes paints and coatings for professional, industrial, commercial, and consumer customers. It sells branded and private-label coatings for architectural, industrial, packaging, and transportation markets, distributed through more than 5,000 company-operated stores and facilities and supplying engineered coatings to over 120 countries. Its products protect and decorate surfaces in buildings, manufacturing, packaging, and transportation, and are supported by digital access and strong customer service. The company aims to maintain leadership in the paint and coatings industry by delivering high-quality products, expanding globally, and maintaining reliable access to its solutions through partnerships.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Cleveland, OH
Founded
1866

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