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# Principal Product Strategist, AI Engagement Leader at Able

- **Company:** Able
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8624699002

## Job description

Back in 2012, we were a group of engineers and designers who decided we wanted to build things, so we did. Able started as an engineering and product hub building for a portfolio of early-stage startups. We built many relationships while developing products that were thoughtful, effective, and genuinely useful. But, since then, we’ve grown… and so has our ambition.

Now, we’re entering our next chapter, defined by applied AI. AI is a powerful force in the end-to-end software development cycle, and we’re creating practices that allow us to deliver software fast and more effectively than traditional approaches, creating meaningful value for our partners. Today, our builder mindset is driving us to become an AI-native organization across every function. We’re still evolving, and that’s part of the opportunity. If you want to build, learn, and tackle challenges alongside an ambitious team, let’s build together.

## About the Role at Able

Able is an AI-native product engineering firm. We partner with organizations that need to move faster, use AI more effectively, and build products that reflect how their teams and customers actually work. We work alongside our clients - embedded, fast, and outcome-obsessed - across industries and stages of product maturity.

This role sits at the center of those engagements. The Principal Product Strategist, AI Engagement Leader will lead discovery, frame opportunities, align decision-makers, define the path to value, and remain accountable as recommendations become product decisions and product decisions become shipped software. The role also helps shape how Able itself works: improving the use of AI across strategy, design, and delivery, and creating a repeatable product discipline that strengthens every engagement.

What Success Looks Like

- Clients view this person as a trusted senior partner who can make complex, ambiguous work feel clear and actionable.
- Able produces more consistent, rigorous discovery, product strategy, workflow analysis, and recommendation artifacts across engagements.
- AI opportunities are evaluated pragmatically - with attention to user value, workflow readiness, data, governance, feasibility, evaluation, and change management.
- The current PM and design team receive stronger coaching, clearer standards, and better tools to do exceptional work.
- Able has a practical roadmap for the future product strategy and design practice, including capabilities, hiring needs, and AI-enabled ways of working.

## Experience

- 10+ years of relevant experience in product strategy, product management, design strategy, consulting, agency work, startup leadership, or a closely related product leadership role; 10+ years preferred.
- 2+ years leading product and/or design work through direct management, functional leadership, practice-building responsibility, or leadership of complex multidisciplinary engagements.
- Strong consulting acumen, including leading client discovery, facilitating workshops, shaping recommendations, and building credibility with senior stakeholders.
- Experience supporting pre-sales and account growth: participating in early client conversations, framing engagement approaches, contributing to proposals or SOWs, estimating work, and presenting a clear point of view.
- Demonstrated ownership across the full product lifecycle, from ambiguous opportunity framing and discovery through build, launch, measurement, and iteration.
- Hands-on experience designing, validating, or shipping AI-enabled products, agents, automations, internal tools, or AI-assisted workflows - with practical judgment about where AI creates leverage and where it introduces risk or unnecessary complexity.
- Proficiency using AI applications to improve product work, including research, synthesis, workflow analysis, prototyping, requirements, documentation, and delivery practices.
- Experience partnering directly with product design, software engineering, and AI engineering teams; able to engage in technical feasibility, architecture, data, evaluation, and governance conversations without needing to be the primary engineer.
- Proven ability to translate messy and sometimes conflicting stakeholder input into a clear problem definition, prioritized opportunity set, and defensible recommendation.
- Comfort building lightweight business cases and articulating value using incomplete data, explicit assumptions, proxies, and outcome-oriented metrics.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including client-facing synthesis briefs, opportunity maps, PRDs, roadmaps, and executive recommendation decks.
- Startup, consulting, agency, venture studio, or similarly entrepreneurial operating experience strongly preferred.

## Responsibilities

Client and Engagement Leadership

- Build and maintain trusted client relationships, serving as a senior thought partner to product, business, technical, and executive stakeholders.
- Lead discovery on client engagements: stakeholder interviews, workflow and process analysis, opportunity framing, AI use-case mapping, value articulation, and prioritized recommendations.
- Bring structure to ambiguous problem spaces by surfacing assumptions, clarifying decisions, making risks and tradeoffs visible, and creating shared alignment around the path forward.
- Facilitate executive workshops and working sessions that move teams from disconnected input to clear priorities, product direction, and next steps.
- Develop clear, persuasive written artifacts - including briefs, opportunity maps, product strategy documents, PRDs, roadmaps, and client-facing recommendation decks.

Product Ownership, Delivery, and AI Product Strategy

- Maintain product ownership through build and implementation: translating strategy into buildable work, supporting sprint planning and backlog decisions, and keeping delivery grounded in client outcomes.
- Partner closely with product design, engineering, and AI engineering to validate feasibility, shape product and architecture tradeoffs, and make practical sequencing decisions.
- Define outcome hypotheses, success measures, and learning plans; help clients make decisions that balance user value, business impact, feasibility, governance, and time-to-value.
- Help clients identify, evaluate, and design AI-enabled products and workflows, including agentic experiences, automation opportunities, human-in-the-loop decisions, evaluation approaches, privacy, security, reliability, and change-management needs.
- Use AI as an extension of the product practice - accelerating research, synthesis, prototyping, documentation, and delivery workflows while maintaining quality and judgment.

Pre-Sales, Account Growth, and Practice Building

- Support pre-sales efforts by joining early client conversations, helping frame opportunities, developing engagement approaches, contributing to proposals and SOWs, estimating work, and presenting Able's point of view.
- Identify opportunities to deepen client relationships and expand impact while protecting trust, delivery quality, and a clear understanding of scope and outcomes.
- Build and evolve Able's product strategy and design discipline: establish methods, standards, AI-enabled workflows, artifacts, and operating practices that enable exceptional client work today and scale with the company over time.
- Provide functional leadership, coaching, and quality oversight for Able's current PM and design team; establish expectations for strong discovery, strategy, design collaboration, and delivery.
- Help define the future structure, capabilities, hiring needs, onboarding approach, and internal tooling roadmap for an AI-native product and design practice.
- Contribute to the strategy and roadmap for Able's internal platform, tooling, and operating systems when those efforts will strengthen client delivery or the broader practice.

Able is powered by curious, thoughtful people who care about what they build and how they build it. We’re actively investing in our team through AI training, knowledge-sharing, and hands-on experimentation to ensure everyone grows alongside the technology.

This position is 100% remote within USA. Strong verbal and written communication skills in English are a requirement. As a team member, you can expect:

- To work 40 hours per week, and be available during normal business hours as needed.
- 18 days of PTO per year, observance of local holidays, and an annual break between Christmas and New Years.
- 100% of health, dental and vision insurance coverage.
- $50 monthly in reimbursements for AI tool subscriptions and costs.
- We provide the equipment.

[About Able](https://able.co/)

Able builds technology products in a portfolio model. We believe that people, teams, and processes are more important than the ideas themselves, so we’ve focused on bringing great people together, and investing in their growth.

We’ve built products in a variety of industries. Everything from media to finance to toys to healthcare. Sometimes we work with management teams to help their businesses grow faster or unlock value using technology. Other times we start or buy businesses outright. Each time, we look for opportunities to leverage technology built at the portfolio-level to drive value faster.

Able is committed to inclusion and diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

This is but the beginning of a conversation we’d love to have with you.

Apply, and let’s get this adventure started!

## About Able

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Able deploys AI to supercharge software development teams, increasing coding velocity by up to 55% and reducing development cycles by as much as 40% [able.co](https://able.co/?hsLang=en).
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/able-co)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States (remote-first with an office in Lima, Peru) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/able-co) | [able.co/team](https://able.co/team)
- **Founded**: 2013 (company’s own story); some sources list 2008 or 2012 [able.co/get-to-know-us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/able-co) | [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Software Development / AI-powered Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- **Target Customers**: B2B — startups, enterprises, and non-profits seeking practical AI implementation and custom product development
- **Mission**: “We build products to build a better future” — leveraging technology for positive social change alongside commercial outcomes [able.co/get-to-know-us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us)

## Products & Services
- **AI-Powered SDLC**: An end-to-end service that uses agentic AI to automate repetitive tasks, reduce maintenance costs by 40%, and free engineers to focus on creative, high-value work. Includes change management and hands-on expertise from an Applied AI Lab [able.co](https://able.co/?hsLang=en).
- **Custom Product Development**: Full-stack design, engineering, and product management for partners ranging from early-stage startups to established businesses. Able builds, launches, and scales products across industries (media, finance, healthcare, toys, etc.) [able.co/get-to-know-us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us) | [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002)
- **Codeable**: An incubated coding school in LATAM that has graduated 9 cohorts with a 95% job placement rate, providing career advancement for engineering students [able.co/get-to-know-us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Revenue**: Not publicly available (private company, no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of 52 employees (+3.2% YoY) as of mid-2026; operates across 15 countries [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/able-co)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Backed by a family office; no external investors named. Partners include non-profits (e.g., Wishbone) and commercial clients across multiple sectors [able.co/get-to-know-us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us).
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring (5 open roles including Principal AI Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, Data Engineer) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/able-co) | [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002). Claimed 55% increase in coding velocity and 40% reduction in development cycles [able.co](https://able.co/?hsLang=en). Quarterly profit sharing announced targets.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Delivery Model**: Unlike traditional dev shops, Able has embedded AI into every stage of the SDLC, with a proven track record of measurable efficiency gains (55% faster code, 40% fewer cycles) [able.co](https://able.co/?hsLang=en).
- **Flat, Global Team**: A single integrated team of product professionals across 9+ countries in the Americas, not a U.S. team with near-shore contractors. This allows seamless collaboration and cultural cohesion [able.co/team](https://able.co/team).
- **Builder Culture**: Emphasis on practical outcomes over endless exploration; engineers direct AI agents, not the other way around. The company has a history of incubating its own products and investing in social good (Codeable, pro bono platforms) [able.co/get-to-know-us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us) | [able.co](https://able.co/?hsLang=en).

## Strategic Focus
- **Applied AI Leadership**: Transitioning to an AI-native organization across all functions. The goal is to set the technical bar for AI in custom software development, using agentic frameworks, RAG, vector databases, and multimodal pipelines [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002).
- **Scaling the Team**: Actively hiring senior AI talent (Principal AI Engineer, Senior AI Engineers) to lead production AI systems and drive thought leadership [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002).
- **Social Impact**: Continued investment in Codeable and partnerships with non-profits to bridge opportunity gaps through technology [able.co/get-to-know-us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: “We have always been and will always be a remote first company.” Team members are distributed across North and South America, with the option to use an office in Lima, Peru [able.co/team](https://able.co/team).
- **Unique Perks**: Meeting-free Able Fridays (full control of time), log off at 2pm local on Fridays year-round, monthly personal development and lunch stipends, quarterly profit sharing, monthly snack boxes, and no timesheets [able.co/team](https://able.co/team).
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Payments in USD, 18 days PTO per year, observance of local holidays, annual break between Christmas and New Year, wellness stipend [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002).
- **Growth & Learning**: Active investment in AI training, knowledge-sharing, and hands-on experimentation. Engineers are encouraged to be entrepreneurs and tinker on side projects [able.co/team](https://able.co/team) | [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002).
- **Culture**: Flat, inclusive, and focused on outcomes. Rated 4.1/5 on LinkedIn (52 reviews), with a 4.0 for work-life balance [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/able-co).

## Sources
1. [able.co – Homepage](https://able.co/?hsLang=en)
2. [able.co – Get To Know Us](https://able.co/get-to-know-us)
3. [able.co – Our Team / Careers](https://able.co/team)
4. [linkedin.com – Able Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/able-co)
5. [greenhouse.io – Principal AI Engineer Job Posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/able/jobs/8538789002)

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