Forward Deployed Product Manager

You're a product manager who is happiest closest to the customer, and you've learned that the fastest path to the right answer is usually to go look. You're comfortable being handed a scope that is 70% specified and a data set nobody has structured before. You can hold a conversation with an architect about how a plan set is drawn in the morning and write the query that tests your hypothesis about it in the afternoon.

You know the difference between a demo and a deliverable, and you're honest with customers about which one they're looking at.

You have:

5+ years of product management experience, including significant time in customer-facing or deployed settings—enterprise implementations, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or professional services.

Hands-on technical fluency: you write SQL, work in notebooks, script against APIs, and interrogate a data set yourself rather than requesting a pull.

Experience prototyping to validate ideas quickly using tools like Cursor, Replit, or V0.dev .

A track record defining structured data models, taxonomies, or classification schemes and getting a business to actually adopt them.

Strong judgment about data quality—what level of accuracy a decision requires, and what it costs to get there.

Excellent written and verbal communication, including with executive stakeholders who have limited time and no patience for status without substance.

Willingness to travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

A major plus if you also bring:

Background in residential construction, homebuilding, architecture, or AEC technology—especially fluency with plan sets, elevations, options, and how builders manage plan variation.

Experience with agent-based or natural-language search over structured data, RAG systems, or LLM-powered analytics.

Exposure to geometric or spatial data—CAD/BIM, computer vision on drawings, similarity and clustering methods.

Experience with large, messy, enterprise-scale data migrations or ingestion programs.

Experience building a function from zero: first hire into a new team, new practice, or new delivery model.

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company. Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with flexible PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office. Please note: we are seeing an uptick of fraudulent recruiting activity claiming to be associated with Higharc. All communication and outreach from our in-house team will come from an @higharc.com email address.