Associate Product Manager (Winter 2025)

About Us:

AltaML is a leading North American applied AI company with extensive experience in building and operationalizing AI solutions. We call our business model Invent and Studio, from industry agnostic to industry focused, which encompasses focus and domain expertise combined with an ability to understand workflows and how to get to generalizability with data. AltaML has multiple functional disciplines and joint ventures.

We are a company like no other – we believe in making small bets, failing fast, and being better together. We are looking for creative problem-solvers who obsess about the customer to find wins across different industries. 

We don’t hire for fit; we hire to add. We are looking for people who play our core values of being: Agile, Gritty Humble, and Happy. If you’re passionate about AI/ML, thrive in a dynamic environment, and want to work with a diverse team of wickedly smart people, we want to hear from you! 

Responsible AI (RAI)

AltaML employees, contractors, and associates must be trained and well-versed in the importance of Responsible AI and empowered to enact RAI principles by developing and deploying AI solutions. They should also be empowered to raise and escalate RAI concerns as required.

AltaML is responsible for elevating public discourse and awareness of AI through open, transparent communications with the broader public.

About the Role:

This opportunity is for current students looking for work experience in Winter 2025 (January - April).

As an Associate Product Manager, you are responsible for assisting in discovering, investigating, and building prototypes for new ideas that will turn into ventures that elevate human potential through applied AI.

Build products with AltaML’s Venture Studio! AltaML’s Venture Studio helps founders and startups fast-track their journey from zero to one by providing technical expertise, managing operational details, and incorporating insights from our corporate labs to deliver innovative applied AI products.

Here, the product team is responsible for launching brand-new AI products. This involves the rigorous process of vetting new ideas by evaluating their potential impact on the world and their feasibility of becoming a viable business. 

An important part of this process includes understanding the target customer and their pains. You will help us learn what potential customers are trying to do, why they do it, and how we can help them make significant improvements. If you have a strong desire to take ideas from 0 to 1, through starting a business, social enterprise, or another means of making an impact, this is the role for you!

Office as a Resource & Participating Universities: This opportunity is currently open to anyone that is currently enrolled at the U of Alberta, U of Calgary (Masters Only), Mount Royal U, U Waterloo, U of Toronto, Queens U, or Conestoga College. As this is a Mitacs funded opportunity, please reach out if you have questions regarding your eligibility. While we have offices in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and Waterloo we use our offices as a resource as this is a hybrid opportunity.

• Conduct creative prospecting to reach customers in new markets through targeted calls and emails, and other outreach activities to set up discovery interviews, demos, and pilot programs.
• Conduct user discovery interviews with potential customers to uncover essential insights, validating problems and opportunities that inform our product development.
• Collaborate with our software and machine learning developers to determine the feasibility of the proposed ideas.
• Identify opportunities to integrate machine learning to solve complex problems and deliver unique market differentiation.
• Map out a clear product roadmap for building prototypes with Must-Have and Nice-to-Have features for our ventures based on the insights received from the discovery interviews and technical team. 
• Identify and engage pilot customers to test product prototypes.
• Create and test hypotheses with the prototype to validate the product’s value proposition, business viability, technical feasibility, and usability.
• Collaborate closely with the dev team, customers, and other key stakeholders to deliver the most valuable features.
• Define and refine the Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, ensuring it aligns with customer insights and business objectives. 
• Conduct thorough research on competitors to understand the market landscape to position the product effectively.
• Develop compelling pitch decks and presentations to communicate the product’s value to stakeholders and potential partners.
• Help us develop the best process for evaluating ideas and growing them into products. This involves humbly listening to data, recognizing the team’s strengths and weaknesses, embracing failures, and brainstorming ways to continue to improve.

• You are working towards a career in business development, technical sales, or product management: you may be pursuing a degree in business, marketing, or a more technical degree (CS, Engineering, Data Science) with a strong interest in how your work delivers value to customers. 
• You possess confident, clear, and concise communication abilities. 
• You have experience or the aptitude for professional interactions, including with executive-level customers. 
• You have a proven track record of entrepreneurial activities, showing initiative, innovation, and a capacity to think outside the box. Your experiences in launching or leading projects or ventures are highly regarded.
• Your ability to work effectively in diverse teams, understanding and integrating different perspectives is crucial. 

• Knowledge of machine learning / AI
• Knowledge of additional functional areas such as Engineering, Sales, UX/UI, Customer Support, Marketing, or Finance

First Nations Acknowledgment

As this role is an opportunity in Edmonton, Alberta - AltaML would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands, referred to as Treaty 6 Territory and that the City of Edmonton and all the people here are beneficiaries of this peace and friendship treaty. Treaty 6 encompasses the traditional territories of numerous western Canadian First Nations, including Cree, Dene (DEN–Ē), Stoney Nakota Sioux, Saulteaux (SO-TO), and Ojibwe (OJIB-WĒ). AltaML is dedicated to ensuring that the spirit of Treaty 6 is honoured and respected.

Equal Opportunities

AltaML is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a safe, diverse and inclusive environment. We encourage qualified applicants of all backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, nationality, and education levels to apply. If you are contacted for an interview and require accommodation during the interviewing process, please let us know.

Equal Opportunities

AltaML is dedicated to fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive workplace as an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds, encompassing ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, nationality, and educational backgrounds. If you are invited for an interview and require accommodations during the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

AltaML acknowledges that its head office is located on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages, and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community.

We Look for A-Players Who:

- Express our core values

- Are hungry for knowledge

- Want to learn new skills

- Are respectful

- Collaborate with others across the whole company

- Share knowledge with coworkers

- Educate and promote AI and ML concepts both internally and externally

- Have a high work ethic and are self-motivated

Our Perks:

🌴Uncapped Vacation - For all full time, permanent employees. Seriously, take the time you need - when you need it.

🚀Make an Impact - Witness the impact your work contribution has on the success of our company.

👩🏿‍💻Working with PhD and Master Level Colleagues - Endless conversations around the latest in Machine Learning and Applied AI.

🩺Competitive Benefits - For all full time, permanent employees.

🏢 Office as a Resource -  Hybrid work environment with state-of-the-art office spaces that ignite collaboration.

⚡Big Slack Energy - IYKYK.

Our Culture:

You will be working in a high-paced environment focused on creating unique ML solutions to problems across multiple industries to generate impactful value. You will be working at a company with employees who have multiple years of industrial and academic experience in data science, software engineering, product development, and machine learning fields.

You will be able to experience a collaborative company culture, which means we believe in working hard, getting the job done, and enjoying the group social on Fridays. You’ll also get flexibility in where you work, what hours you work, how much vacation you take, and what you wear. We expect hard work but respect work/life balance.

Core Values:

At AltaML, we are driven by our core values. We believe that by embodying these values in everything we do, we will exceed our customer’s expectations while creating a positive and empowering work environment for our team members. We are dedicated to living our values and strive to make them the foundation for our success. 

Gritty

We are entrepreneurial, determined, and resilient, pushing through challenges to achieve our goals.

Agile

We make decisions based on “little bets” creating a safe space to take risks. We embrace an interactive process, allowing ideas to fail quickly or be scaled iteratively. Together, we continuously refine and improve our approach to reach the desired outcome. 

Humble

We listen to data, embrace new ideas, admit limitations and take ownership to solve problems. We constantly push ourselves to improve and excel.  

Happy

We ignite passion and purpose by fostering a dynamic work environment. We encourage tap dancing to work, common sense over rules, empowering team members to find joy in their contributions, and being your authentic self.