What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Technical Product Manager position at DRINKS?
About DRINKS
DRINKS powers digital commerce for the $250 billion alcohol market. The company enables alcohol
ecommerce for leading retailers, brands, marketplaces, and wineries, eliminating a century of red tape with simple-to-use enterprise-grade technology. Electriq, DRINKS’ digital growth marketing agency, extends the company’s unparalleled beverage alcohol and ecommerce experience to create best-in-class customer experiences in the wine industry and beyond. Patented DRINKS IQ technology leverages Artificial Intelligence to better understand the science of selling. DRINKS was named a Top Place to Work by Built In LA for the last four years, one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes for two consecutive years, Most Innovative Retail Model by Modern Retail in 2020, and its Wine Insiders brand was named one of America’s Best Value Retailers by Wine Enthusiast in 2021.
Working at DRINKS
At DRINKS, you’ll get the good parts of working for a large company (first-rate health plans and benefits, remote work, highly competitive compensation packages) with the advantages of working at a rapidly growing startup (influence and impact in your role, broad responsibilities, and a high degree of flexibility). Our culture encourages a healthy work-life balance, and we empower employees to think like owners because they are – when they participate in our generous stock option plan! DRINKS rewards excellence, promotes career development, and celebrates diverse perspectives that inspire creativity and drive innovation.
The Role
We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager with a deep engineering background and extensive experience in SaaS, eCommerce, APIs, and AI-powered product development. This role is focused on scaling and evolving the DRINKS product portfolio, creating unprecedented value across our ecommerce, regtech and SaaS solutions by leveraging and evolving the DRINKS AI platform.
You will work alongside Data Scientists, Engineers and cross-functional squads to shape the strategy, architecture, and execution of our next-generation AI-driven agentic commerce solutions, ensuring our technology empowers merchants, producers, and retailers with cutting-edge automation, compliance, and AI merchandizing tools allowing seamless scaling and maturing of our core DRINKS Assure and DRINKS Anywhere products. If you thrive in high-growth, high-impact environments, have a passion for AI-driven innovation, and know how to turn complex technical capabilities into scalable, market-defining products, this is the opportunity for you. This position is a regular, full-time, exempt position. DRINKS is home-based in Los Angeles; however, we are now a remote-first company.
What You’ll do
- Drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution for DRINKS' AI-powered product offerings, including AI Agents, intelligent automation, and AI-driven commerce tools.
- Define and prioritize AI-driven features and services, ensuring they provide real business value, drive adoption, and scale efficiently.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, data science, and AI/ML teams to bring technical concepts to life and translate AI capabilities into tangible product features.
- Leverage and help lead the evolution of DRINKS AI platform APIs, ensuring seamless integration for both internal teams and external developers.
- Architect and drive the roadmaps of AI-powered SaaS workflows, such as compliance automation, predictive merchandizing, and intelligent order routing.
- Optimize AI adoption in eCommerce workflows, ensuring AI Agents and automation features enhance customer experience and revenue growth.
- Develop robust instrumentation and metrics to measure AI product performance and drive continuous improvements.
- Stay ahead of AI and automation trends, continuously experimenting with new ways to leverage AI for commerce innovation.
About You
- Proven experience working with and building modern AI products and tooling.
- Proven Senior Product Management experience in e-commerce, especially with platforms like Shopify.
- Deep experience with e-commerce/marketplace best practices including optimizing user journeys through the funnel, cart & checkout functionality, payment rails, order management, fulfillment systems and detailed instrumentation and metric driven development.
- Proven experience developing and managing product roadmaps in complex multi-product tech companies.
- Demonstrable leadership qualities and the ability to lead complex projects from conception to completion.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to work well with cross-functional teams.
- Highly analytical, with strong problem-solving abilities.
- Computer Science degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
Nice to Have’s
- Experience in a hands-on engineering role at some point in your career.
- Experience in the alcohol or other regulated industry.
- Experience in SaaS, Marketplace and/or B2B platforms.
- Experience in Data, ML and/or AI integrated into product features.
- Knowledge or prior work with digital transformation in traditional industries.
Primary Location: Los Angeles, CA
Primary Location Compensation Range: $180,000.00 - $240,000/yr.
Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
DRINKS celebrates being an equal employment opportunity provider to all people in accordance with all applicable laws. Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Salary : $180,000 - $240,000
