Principal Product Manager - Rapidminer AI products

Iowa State University Research Park is seeking a Principal Product Manager for their AI products in the Rapidminer data and AI platform. The role involves driving value for customers through innovative AI capabilities and shaping product strategy to achieve business success.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with senior leadership to define and evolve the vision and strategy for Rapidminer’s AI products, ensuring strong alignment with the overall platform direction
• Leading, mentoring, and supporting a successful team of product managers- encouraging curiosity, creativity, and continuous learning
• Championing commercial success by collaborating with marketing, sales, and customers, shaping go‑to‑market approaches, enabling teams, and helping meet revenue ambitions
• Creating clear, purposeful product roadmaps and work closely with design, engineering, QA, and cross‑functional partners to bring them to life
• Taking ownership of product outcomes, supporting customers through critical and high‑impact engagements when needed
• Representing and advocating for our products with internal teams, customers, analysts, and broader audiences in partnership with product marketing and related groups
• Working in close collaboration with engineering leadership to refine development frameworks, processes, and team practices

Requirements:

• Demonstrated product leadership with the skills to inspire, guide, and grow a high‑performing team while nurturing a culture grounded in accountability and shared success
• A commercially oriented mindset with experience navigating enterprise software markets
• Deep understanding of data science, machine learning, and AI, from industry use cases to value realization and hands‑on familiarity with low‑code/no‑code tools or languages such as Python in enterprise settings
• Strong grasp of data and AI‑focused enterprise software, customer needs across the AI value chain, and technologies spanning data, DSML/AI modeling, operations, and business applications
• Exceptional communications with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into accessible, compelling narratives (fluency in English is required)