Forward Deployed Product Manager

About Higharc

Role Overview

What You Will Do

• Embed with headquarters, regional, and division teams to locate plan assets, establish sources of truth, and document plan variation.
• Own product definition for a searchable plan library, analytics dashboard, and agent-enabled search.
• Tune Higharc's Autotranslate AI to identify, categorize, and translate floorplans into data.
• Query the structured plan library, build against internal APIs, and ship working capabilities to users.
• Define delivery acceptance criteria for coverage, data completeness, and QA error thresholds.
• Frame and defend ROI related to catalog redundancy, dimensional variation, consolidation candidates, and purchasing leverage.
• Partner with engineering, technical leadership, QA, intake, and client strategy teams.
• Present progress and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders.
• Capture playbooks, artifacts, and data patterns for future engagements.

Required Background

• 5+ years of product management experience, including significant customer-facing or deployed work.
• Hands-on fluency with SQL, notebooks, APIs, and direct data investigation.
• Experience prototyping ideas quickly with tools such as Cursor, Replit, or V0.dev.
• Experience defining structured data models, taxonomies, or classification schemes and driving adoption.
• Strong judgment about data quality and the accuracy required for business decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executive stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

Preferred Background

• Residential construction, homebuilding, architecture, or AEC technology experience is a major plus.
• Experience with natural-language search, RAG systems, or LLM-powered analytics is a major plus.
• Exposure to CAD/BIM, computer vision on drawings, geometric data, similarity, or clustering is a major plus.
• Experience with enterprise-scale data migrations or ingestion programs is a major plus.
• Experience building a new team, practice, or delivery model from zero is a major plus.

Remote Work and Travel

• Higharc has operated as a fully remote company since its founding in 2018.
• The company combines remote work and asynchronous deep-work time with regular in-person team meetups across U.S. hubs.
• Roles requiring frequent travel beyond scheduled team meetups are represented during the interview process.

Compensation and Benefits

• Higharc offers competitive salaries, significant equity, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible PTO, and parental leave for full-time U.S.-based employees.
• Benefits also include disability plans, a 401K, a home-office stipend, and learning and development support.