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title: 'AI Product Leader at Blank Metal'
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# AI Product Leader at Blank Metal

- **Company:** Blank Metal
- **Location:** Minneapolis, MN
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blank-metal/5f3dc3d6-cb05-46ba-9b4f-601e5e940907

## Job description

DEPARTMENT Product LOCATION Minneapolis, MN (Hybrid) TYPE Full time REPORTS TO Head of Product

## THE ROLE

The AI Product Leader sits at the intersection of product delivery, engagement leadership, and applied AI strategy. In practice it looks like: ~40% product delivery, ~40% client leadership, ~20% AI strategy. You will lead 2–3 concurrent engagements and be accountable for shipping, adoption, and measurable impact.

## WHAT YOU GET TO DO

1. Product delivery and execution

- Own backlogs, prioritization, and sprint execution across 2–3 engagements.
- Run standups, planning, retros, and cross-team coordination with engineering/design/data.
- Write crisp user stories and acceptance criteria; make trade-offs under real constraints.
- Ensure production readiness: security, compliance, data governance, deployment, and operational runbooks.
- Drive post-launch iteration using user feedback, telemetry, and KPI performance.

1. Client and engagement leadership

- Lead client working sessions and check-ins; steer decision-making with exec and practitioner stakeholders.
- Translate ambiguity into clear plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Own delivery health: scope, risks, dependencies, and expectation management.
- Partner with the engagement lead/account team on renewals/expansions and executive readouts (no hard sales quota).

1. Applied AI strategy (GenAI-heavy)

- Help clients choose the right approach: workflow redesign, retrieval, tool use, evaluation strategy, rollout.
- Design evaluation and measurement: rubrics, golden datasets, offline/online testing, and monitoring plans.
- Make practical architecture-level recommendations with engineers (you don’t have to be the architect).
- Stay current on model capabilities/limits and translate that into realistic product decisions.

## WHAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED

- You have shipped software to production and can point to what you built, what changed, and how it performed.
- You can run delivery: budget, backlog, sprints, trade-offs, and stakeholder alignment (without hiding behind process).
- You are fluent in modern GenAI patterns (prompting, RAG basics, evaluation, iteration) and have hands-on experience using tools to build prototypes or workflows.
- You thrive in ambiguity: starting with incomplete requirements, making decisions with imperfect information, and adapting as you learn.

## What we’ll accept as equivalent

- Client leadership can be external clients or internal “enterprise clients” where you owned budget, outcomes, timelines, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience with AI-powered low-code platforms (V0, Bolt, Lovable) for rapid prototyping and stakeholder demos
- AI experience can be GenAI product work or adjacent data/ML product work plus clear hands-on GenAI experimentation in the last 12 months.

Required

- AI/GenAI Product Manager who has also led enterprise delivery and exec stakeholders.
- Engagement Manager/Delivery Lead from a SaaS/AI product company who has shipped software and can do product thinking.
- Senior Product Owner/TPM with strong stakeholder leadership plus clear GenAI build/eval work.

## Nice to have

- Evaluation harnesses, red-team testing, or model monitoring in production.
- Regulated environments (healthcare/finance/insurance) and security/compliance constraints.
- Change management: rollout, enablement, adoption metrics. Professional services experience, especially fixed-price or outcome-based delivery.

Not a fit if

- You only want strategy work and don’t want to own shipping, iteration, and operational realities.
- You prefer low-ambiguity roles with highly mature processes or narrow ownership.
- You want people management or practice leadership right now.
- You are remote-only and not able to travel to MSP regularly.

## COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Competitive base salary with a revenue-based variable comp structure — when the company wins, you win. We offer comprehensive health coverage, 401(k) with match, flexible time off, flexible work arrangements, and support for professional development.

## ABOUT BLANK METAL

Blank Metal is an AI-native engineering company that partners with enterprises to deliver production AI fast. We blend strategic insight with hands-on execution, shipping high-impact systems that turn AI initiatives into measurable business results.

We’re builders, not theorists. Our team of seasoned engineers, designers, and strategists work across industries to create AI applications that actually get used and make a difference.

Blank Metal is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all backgrounds and perspectives. Diversity makes our work better and our team stronger. [blankmetal.ai](http://blankmetal.ai)

## About Blank Metal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blank Metal is an AI-native engineering partner that helps enterprises build production-ready AI products and platforms in 90 days or less, acting as an "anti-consultancy" that prioritizes outcomes over billable hours.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Matt Johnson (CEO), Eric Johnson (CTO), Teresa Marchek (Head of Product), Elli Rader (Chief Growth Officer), Missy Bemm (Head of Partnership Operations), Jeff Hinck (Board Member), Justin Kaufenberg (Board Member)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-Native Engineering Services / Technology Consulting
- **Target customers**: B2B; mid-sized companies ($500M–$1B revenue) needing outsourced AI teams, large multi-billion dollar corporations needing AI strategy and talent, and Rally Ventures portfolio companies needing rapid prototyping.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To help companies navigate the most profound technological shift in decades by delivering production-ready enterprise AI solutions without the overhead of traditional consulting.

## Products & Services
- **Enterprise GenAI Platform**: Build and deploy AI-native applications, AI agents, and replatform legacy systems — from "cool demo" to "enterprise production."
- **AI Roadmap & ROI Model (PLAN)**: Board-ready AI strategy and ROI model to align executives and secure funding.
- **Production-Ready MVP (BUILD)**: Time-boxed MVP delivered in less than 90 days with KPIs wired in from day one.
- **Training & Governance (OWN)**: Team upskilling, bootcamps, and governance frameworks so clients can scale the win internally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $3.0M Seed round (June 24, 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Rally Ventures, Traction Capital, Pure Play Partners (co-led seed round)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Monthly website traffic growth: +282.5%
  - LinkedIn follower growth: +7.4% monthly (1,322 followers)
  - Headcount growth: +4.0% monthly; currently 20 employees (23 according to Built In)
  - Active job postings: 12 (monthly growth +140%, quarterly +100%)
  - Client outcomes: 20% revenue lift for a national insurer, 30% productivity uplift for an enterprise workforce platform, board-adopted C-suite 2030 AI roadmap for a healthcare client

## Competitive Advantages
- **"Anti-consultancy" model**: Lean, senior teams with <5% overhead; outcomes-based contracts (not hour factories).
- **AI-native from day one**: Every workflow, process, and internal tool is built for velocity and iteration.
- **Ship speed**: Time-boxed MVPs delivered in weeks, not quarters.
- **Deep partnerships**: Expertise and partnerships with best models, APIs, and ecosystems (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.).
- **Performance Guaranteed**: Measurable ROI, not strategy decks.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling the team (12 open roles), expanding partner ecosystem (OpenAI and Anthropic Partner Lead roles), and serving diverse client sizes from startups to Fortune 500s.
- **Growth direction**: Building a place where top AI talent can explore broadly, while helping clients build, maintain, and scale AI products and tools.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, autonomous squads vs. sprawling org charts; "builders who want to move fast, obsess over craft, and change what’s possible for clients."
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid workspace with flexible on-site time; offices in Minneapolis, MN (HQ) and a second location in Minnesota.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI tech (OpenAI, Anthropic, PyTorch, Kubernetes, etc.); exposure to diverse clients from startups to Fortune 500s; strong emphasis on craft and impact.
- **Engineering Culture**: AI-powered, impact-obsessed; "we measure success in production." Tech stack includes Python, TypeScript, React, SQL, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenAI, and more.

## Sources
1. [blankmetal.ai](https://www.blankmetal.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn - Blank Metal](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blank-metal)
3. [Built In - Blank Metal Careers](https://builtin.com/company/blank-metal)
4. [Rally Ventures - Blank Metal](https://www.rallyventures.com/blank-metal/)
5. [Twin Cities Business - New AI Firm Blank Metal Raises $3 Million](https://tcbmag.com/new-ai-firm-blank-metal-raises-3-million/)
6. [FinSMEs - Blank Metal Raises $3M in Funding](https://www.finsmes.com/2025/06/blank-metal-raises-3m-in-funding.html)

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