Product Manager (Hybrid, US)

This role is open to candidates in Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, LA, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco.

Cornerstone Research’s Data Science Center is seeking a Product Manager to help define, build, and scale AI-enabled products that support the firm’s litigation consulting and expert services. This is a senior, hands-on role that owns the full breadth of product management across the Data Science Center’s portfolio of initiatives, from product definition and discovery through delivery and rollout. You will work in a domain where accuracy, trust, and impact matter, shaping products used in active matters that directly influence expert analysis and litigation outcomes.

You will work closely with Data Science leadership, engineers, designers, and stakeholders across the firm to translate needs into clear product direction, maintain roadmaps and feature backlogs, lead alignment, and drive successful product delivery and adoption. This role suits a product manager who operates with autonomy in fast-moving environments, sets product direction amid ambiguity, and works fluently in AI-native, prototype-first workflows.

Key Responsibilities

1. Own products end-to-end across the Data Science Center’s growing portfolio, with accountability for product outcomes and user impact across the full lifecycle, including (but not limited to):

o Leading discovery and validation efforts to engage users and stakeholders, surface unknowns, synthesize qualitative insights, and define product scope and success criteria before committing.

o Driving delivery execution, coordinating across designers, engineers, data scientists, and consultants while tracking timelines, risks, dependencies, and scope drift to surface tradeoffs and ensure delivery readiness.

2. Establish and own Cornerstone Research’s product operating model, shaping lightweight practices for planning, prioritization, and delivery that fit team capacity and firm-specific constraints.

3. Communicate product direction and drive adoption, translating plans, timelines, and tradeoffs into clear updates for senior stakeholders, while enabling user feedback, rollout, training, and effective use of delivered tools.

Qualifications & Experience

Required:

• 4–6 years of experience in product management or a closely related role, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership conceiving, shaping, and delivering multiple software products.

• Proven ability to frame product problems and commit to prioritization or sequencing decisions in situations with incomplete information or competing constraints, and to defend those decisions to stakeholders.

• Strong product sense, with the ability to interpret user needs, synthesize qualitative input, and identify when additional discovery or validation is needed.

• Experience driving structured product execution, including maintaining feature backlogs, writing specifications and acceptance criteria, and coordinating across design and engineering partners.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate priorities, tradeoffs, and progress to both technical teams and senior stakeholders, including executives.

• Comfort working in fast-paced, evolving environments and willingness to learn and adopt new tools and workflows, including using AI-assisted techniques to support early product exploration and prototyping.

• Ability to reason about AI-product tradeoffs, including human-in-the-loop workflows, accuracy, explainability, and trust, in collaboration with engineering and data science partners.

Preferred:

• Experience adapting common product development and delivery patterns, with the judgment to tailor processes to the organization’s constraints and operating context.

• Experience using AI-powered coding assistants as part of lightweight prototyping to explore and refine product ideas, communicate product intent, and validate workflows with engineers and stakeholders before committing to build.

• Familiarity with internal-facing products, data platforms, or enterprise tools used by professional or knowledge-based organizations.

Application Requirements:

• Resume

• Cover Letter

• Portfolio (optional, if applicable please upload under “Additional Documents”)

Cornerstone Research will provide visa support to full-time candidates. If you are applying from within the US, candidates should have at least 12 months remaining of work authorization.

Cornerstone Research offers a market-leading compensation and benefits package. The base salary range for the Product Manager role is $195,000 to $265,000. In addition to the base salary, the Product Manager will be eligible for a starting bonus and a discretionary bonus based on performance and other factors. Previous relevant work experience will be taken into consideration in determining compensation. Information about our benefits, including health and wellness and family support, can be found on the Careers page of our website.

About Cornerstone Research

Cornerstone Research provides economic and financial consulting and expert testimony in all phases of complex disputes and regulatory investigations. The firm works with an extensive network of prominent academics and industry practitioners to identify the best-qualified expert for each assignment. With a reputation for high quality and effectiveness, Cornerstone Research has consistently delivered rigorous, state-of-the-art analysis since 1989. The firm has more than 1,000 professionals in nine offices across the United States, UK, and EU.

Cornerstone Research’s Data Science Center is the firm’s center of excellence for advanced analytics, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled innovation. Working at the intersection of economics, data science, and litigation, Data Science partners closely with consultants to build practical, production-grade products that expand Cornerstone’s delivery boundaries, embedding AI directly into the way litigation consulting work is done. Deep domain expertise, direct access to real user problems, and strong distribution channels create a unique environment for building durable, high-impact products at the forefront of legal technology.

More details on Cornerstone Research and what we do can be found on our website: www.cornerstone.com.

Cornerstone Research provides Equal Employment Opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to legally protected categories, such as age, sex, gender, gender identity, race, color, creed/religious belief, medical condition, predisposing genetic characteristics, or genetic information or testing, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, military status, veteran status, arrest or conviction record (except where permitted by law), sexual orientation, ethnic background, citizen status, ancestry, national origin, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law.