As an Associate Director of Product Management - Applied Machine Learning (AML), you’ll leverage your unique balance of business, product and deep technical skills to drive development of state of the art AI and machine learning products in a variety of domains including search, personalization, cybersecurity, digital fraud and more. You will be closely working with product/business partners, ML Scientists, ML Engineers and other stakeholders to be the driving force that prioritizes and brings meaningful ML products to life.
***This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at a Best Buy location and some days virtually at home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota.
What you’ll do

• Leading the ideation, design and development of state of the art ML products and services
• Think strategically with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Obsess about leveraging AI to improve customer experiences and create greater business value
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to drive product vision, define/track product requirements and milestones, coordinate resources and guide the team through key milestones.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a highly quantitative field (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, Operations Research or related)
• 4 or more years of product management experience
• 3 or more years of people management or team leadership experience
• 1 or more years of managing people leaders
• 1 or more years experience leading the development of ML/AI or related products
• Strong experience managing/tracking agile development over JIRA boards
• Ability to effectively communicate/translate deep technical information to a wide spectrum of cross-functional technical/non-technical teams

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master’s degree
• 2 or more years of Product management experience in tech industry
• 8 or more years of related Product management experience
• 4 or more years of technical people management/team leadership experience
• 6 or more years of hands on experience as an ML Engineer, ML Scientist or Software Engineer during early part of their career
• 1 or more years of experience leading ML product design and development over GCP or AWS
• 1 or more years of Open source contributions or GitHub portfolio

What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Generous employee discount
• Physical and mental well-being support

About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™