Engineering Full-Time

Forward Deployed Product Manager (US)

Bolo AI • Houston, TX

Company

Bolo AI

Annual salary

$150k – $286k/yr

Location

Houston, TX

Listed

4d ago

Experience:: 3 to 5 years
Workplace:: Hybrid, primarily based in Houston, TX (preferred) or Palo Alto, CA. This is a customer-facing role requiring 2-3 days per week on-site with clients. Office attendance is flexible around client schedules. Travel is need-based and can reach up to 50% during intensive customer phases, especially if based in Palo Alto. Houston-based candidates will travel less since most clients are concentrated there. Relocation support is not available.
Equity:: <p>Competitive equity package (stock options) benchmarked to industry standards via Pave. Bolo AI is a seed-stage startup backed by True Ventures, Benchstrength, Accomplice, Analog Ventures, and Beat Ventures with $10.3M raised, offering meaningful early-stage upside.</p>

Hybrid in Houston, TX.

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What you'll do

Own customer engagements end-to-end, from initial discovery through MVP scoping, deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact
Embed with clients on-site 2-3 days per week, deeply understanding their day-to-day operations, workflows, and pain points in heavy industrial environments
Translate complex customer problems into clear problem statements, MVP scope, data requirements, and product requirements for the engineering team
Partner closely with engineering to build and iterate on AI-powered solutions, either by rapidly prototyping yourself or sitting with engineers to shape the product
Manage tradeoffs across customer urgency, technical complexity, commercial value, and long-term product reusability
Drive pilots to become must-have deployments by creating clear, measurable customer value, the bar is that customers cannot live without Bolo when the pilot ends
Identify repeatable patterns across engagements and turn them into scalable product and delivery processes as Bolo grows
Participate in sales meetings and stay close to expansion, renewal, and commercial outcomes

What you need

We need someone with 3-8+ years of experience in a high-ownership, customer-facing role (consulting, forward-deployed product, or technical delivery) who has deep domain expertise in heavy industry, specifically oil & gas, chemicals, manufacturing, power, utilities, or infrastructure. You should be comfortable operating in ambiguity, working directly with customers 2-3 days per week, and translating messy operational problems into shipped AI-powered solutions. Strong preference for candidates with MBB consulting backgrounds (especially McKinsey) combined with hands-on heavy industry experience.

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The listing gives $150k – $286k/yr.

Is this role remote? +

The listing gives the location as Houston, TX. Hybrid, primarily based in Houston, TX (preferred) or Palo Alto, CA. This is a customer-facing role requiring 2-3 days per week on-site with clients. Office attendance is flexible around client schedules. Travel is need-based and can reach up to 50% during intensive customer phases, especially if based in Palo Alto. Houston-based candidates will travel less since most clients are concentrated there. Relocation support is not available.