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Caylent

AWS-focused cloud-native consulting and DevOps

Forward Deployed Product Manager

Technology & Systems ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of product management experience, including meaningful experience in a client-facing, embedded, or consulting role.
  • Experience working directly with product teams on their discovery processes, product development lifecycle design, and specification practices.
  • Experience or demonstrated capability using agentic artificial intelligence to facilitate product management activities.
  • Ability to facilitate working sessions with product and engineering stakeholders, extract useful information from ambiguous input, and drive toward a signed-off decision.
  • Ability to write clear, executable specifications for engagement deliverables and as a model for clients being coached.
  • Technical fluency to scope prototypes with engineers, discuss architectural feasibility, participate in specification-to-build handoffs, and contribute to architecture lock sessions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the product workstream end-to-end on enterprise transformation programs by assessing current client product-team operations, designing the future-state product development lifecycle, and coaching product managers to become strategic orchestrators of AI-assisted development.
  • On prototype and build-enable engagements, run discovery with client stakeholders, shape the delivery backlog into a signed Sprint Charter, and write specifications that drive prototype and minimum viable product development.
  • Design product-management training curricula and lead enablement sessions throughout engagements, using real delivery work as session material.
  • Surface expansion opportunities during delivery and identify what the client's product organization needs next by the close of each engagement.
  • Help define and refine product-facing agents deployed across engagements, including idea consolidation, specification generation, product-management workflow automation, and agent prioritization.
  • Provide field feedback to improve agent design, prompt configuration, and scoping frameworks for client agentic tooling.
  • Co-own product specification artifacts that define how Caylent's intellectual property is built and evolved across the practice.
  • Turn product development lifecycle patterns from client engagements into improvements to product workstream methodology, scoping frameworks, and future-state design templates.
  • Support pre-sales conversations involving product definition, sprint structure, or product development lifecycle maturity assessment.

Desired Qualifications

  • Background in professional services, management consulting, or an embedded advisory role.
  • Experience redesigning how a product function operates within another organization, rather than only producing recommendations.
  • Familiarity with AI-native product workflows such as spec-driven development, large language model-assisted requirements generation, or agentic product tooling.
  • Experience with private-equity portfolio company environments or enterprise engineering organizations undergoing modernization.
  • Hands-on familiarity with Claude Code or equivalent AI-assisted development tooling.

About the Company

Caylent

AWS-focused cloud-native consulting and DevOps

Caylent is a cloud-native services company that helps organizations maximize the value of AWS-driven solutions. It guides and executes on cloud journeys, offering migration, DevOps, DevSecOps, and ongoing optimization to build, scale, and improve cloud systems. The company uses a co-delivery model, working closely with clients to deliver tailored cloud solutions and transfer knowledge so clients can manage their environments themselves. Caylent differentiates itself with deep AWS alignment (as an AWS all-in partner), a strong library of methodologies and code repositories, and a history rooted in container and microservices work (originating as the first Docker Swarm container-as-a-service platform). Its goal is to shorten time-to-value for customers by applying AWS best practices and proven processes to create scalable, secure, and well-optimized cloud environments.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Growth Equity (Venture Capital)
Total funding
$16.2M
Headquarters
Irvine, CA
Founded
2015

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