Product Manager, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) & Edge AI
The Product Manager for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) & Edge AI at Confidential Client leads the vision, roadmap, and delivery of advanced AI-driven traffic and safety analytics products deployed in real-world municipal environments. This role requires close collaboration with engineering, sales, and public-sector customers to translate complex field requirements into scalable hardware and software solutions that improve road safety, congestion, and emissions. The position is Houston-based and focuses on high-impact, technical product management within a lean, innovative company.
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Role Overview
Confidential Client is hiring a Product Manager to lead the roadmap for intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and edge-AI products that run on rugged edge hardware and ship to city, DOT, and infrastructure customers. This is a hands-on product role that sits close to engineering and to customers, focused on video detection, safety analytics, adaptive signal timing, and field-ready edge deployments.
What You’ll Do
- Own the product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for the core ITS and edge-AI platform (video detection, safety analytics, adaptive control, hardware/software integrations).
- Translate field requirements from cities, DOTs, and systems integrators into product specs, acceptance criteria, and release plans.
- Work daily with engineering teams (computer vision, embedded/edge, hardware) to deliver reliable features that perform under real weather, lighting, and traffic conditions.
- Partner with sales, distributors, and customers to define use cases, success metrics (detection accuracy, congestion reduction, safety outcomes), and packaging/pricing.
- Define and track product KPIs; use deployment data and customer feedback to iterate quickly.
- Help shape go-to-market materials, competitive positioning, and the product story for public-sector and infrastructure buyers.
- Balance near-term customer commitments with longer-term platform bets (multi-camera fusion, digital twins, connected-vehicle interfaces, new form factors).
What We’re Looking For (Required)
- 5+ years of product management experience shipping hardware + software or edge/AI products used in production environments.
- Direct experience in one or more of: computer vision / video analytics products, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), traffic signal / detection systems, smart-city or municipal infrastructure platforms, or industrial edge AI.
- Proven ability to work with technical teams on constrained, real-world systems (latency, accuracy, ruggedization, integration with existing controllers and cameras).
- Experience selling to or delivering for government, DOTs, cities, or large infrastructure customers (procurement, compliance, field deployment realities).
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to turn messy field requirements into crisp specs and to represent the product with customers and partners.
- Comfortable operating in a small, high-ownership company where the PM is close to both engineering and the customer.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Strongly Preferred
- Hands-on familiarity with NVIDIA Jetson / Orin or similar edge GPU platforms.
- Experience with traffic controllers, NEMA cabinets, analog/IP camera integration, or signal timing systems.
- Background in B2B industrial or public-sector product management (not only consumer or pure SaaS).
- Track record taking a product from early deployments to repeatable, scalable offerings.
- Location in or willingness to be in Houston, TX (field visits, hardware development, and customer proximity matter).
Why This Role
You will own a product already deployed with U.S. cities and DOTs that directly affects congestion, emissions, and safety. The work is technical, tangible, and high-impact. You’ll work closely with a lean founding team to design and build in Houston and see deployments move from pilot to scale.
Work Style & Employment Type
This is a full-time role with an on-site preference in Houston, TX. Field visits and hands-on hardware work are part of the job.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
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