Eleven Recruiting · 5 months ago
Vice President, AI Product Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $225K/yr
8+ years expEleven Recruiting is a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Their client, an investment firm, is seeking a Vice President, AI Product Engineer to lead the development of AI-driven products and features, overseeing the full AI lifecycle and ensuring alignment with product strategy.
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Responsibilities
Prototype LLM-powered tools, copilots, and retrieval-based workflows using APIs, embeddings, and orchestration frameworks
Build full-stack AI features with robust infrastructure, including retrieval logic, prompt pipelines, caching, evaluation, and observability
Own the full AI lifecycle—from data preparation and experimentation to deployment and monitoring
Rapidly evaluate new models and frameworks (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, open-source) to test what works and discard what doesn't
Monitor and improve system performance: accuracy, latency, hallucination, and user satisfaction
Translate ambiguous user or business needs into scoped, AI-capable features with clear goals and success metrics
Prioritize experiments and features based on impact, feasibility, and data—balancing speed with quality
Conduct internal or external user testing to validate product direction, gather feedback, and improve iteratively
Define KPIs and success criteria for AI-driven products, and track performance over time
Collaborate cross-functionally to align AI initiatives with product strategy, roadmap planning, and stakeholder needs
Act as a product owner for AI systems: making trade-offs, communicating rationale, and ensuring continuous learning from usage data
Ship fast, iterate smartly, and create real value—without waiting for perfect conditions and build systems that are observable, scalable, and evolve with usage
Help shape a company-wide culture of AI innovation and responsible deployment
Qualification
Required
Bachelors degree is required
8+ years of software engineering or ML experience, with 3+ years focused on LLMs, NLP, or applied AI
Proven track record shipping production AI tools or platforms used by real users
Deep experience with Python, LangChain/OpenAI SDK, embeddings, RAG architecture, and vector DBs
Strong product sense—ability to define problems, measure impact, and drive iterative improvement
Hands-on experience optimizing LLM workflows for latency, cost, performance, and reliability
Ability to think from first principles and manage ambiguity across both technical and product domains
Experience with model fine-tuning, LoRA, or open-source model hosting (e.g., Hugging Face, Ollama, BentoML)
Familiarity with agentic design, LangGraph, or task decomposition frameworks
Exposure to product analytics (Amplitude, Mixpanel, custom telemetry) and A/B testing of AI features
Experience building internal tools or workflows that increased efficiency or automation
Experience in designing user flows while simultaneously optimizing a prompt or embedding index
Preferred
Master's in computer or data science preferred
Company
Eleven Recruiting
Eleven Recruiting provides staffing services and employment assistance for professionals.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Michael Chiang
Chief Executive Officer
Bradley Picard
Managing Partner
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