Principal Product Strategist, AI Engagement Leader

About the Role at Able

Able is an AI-native product engineering firm. We partner with organizations that need to move faster, use AI more effectively, and build products that reflect how their teams and customers actually work. We work alongside our clients - embedded, fast, and outcome-obsessed - across industries and stages of product maturity.

This role sits at the center of those engagements. The Principal Product Strategist, AI Engagement Leader will lead discovery, frame opportunities, align decision-makers, define the path to value, and remain accountable as recommendations become product decisions and product decisions become shipped software. The role also helps shape how Able itself works: improving the use of AI across strategy, design, and delivery, and creating a repeatable product discipline that strengthens every engagement.

What Success Looks Like

• Clients view this person as a trusted senior partner who can make complex, ambiguous work feel clear and actionable.
• Able produces more consistent, rigorous discovery, product strategy, workflow analysis, and recommendation artifacts across engagements.
• AI opportunities are evaluated pragmatically - with attention to user value, workflow readiness, data, governance, feasibility, evaluation, and change management.
• The current PM and design team receive stronger coaching, clearer standards, and better tools to do exceptional work.
• Able has a practical roadmap for the future product strategy and design practice, including capabilities, hiring needs, and AI-enabled ways of working.

Experience

• 10+ years of relevant experience in product strategy, product management, design strategy, consulting, agency work, startup leadership, or a closely related product leadership role; 10+ years preferred.
• 2+ years leading product and/or design work through direct management, functional leadership, practice-building responsibility, or leadership of complex multidisciplinary engagements.
• Strong consulting acumen, including leading client discovery, facilitating workshops, shaping recommendations, and building credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting pre-sales and account growth: participating in early client conversations, framing engagement approaches, contributing to proposals or SOWs, estimating work, and presenting a clear point of view.
• Demonstrated ownership across the full product lifecycle, from ambiguous opportunity framing and discovery through build, launch, measurement, and iteration.
• Hands-on experience designing, validating, or shipping AI-enabled products, agents, automations, internal tools, or AI-assisted workflows - with practical judgment about where AI creates leverage and where it introduces risk or unnecessary complexity.
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