About the role
Cresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day. Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu , founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences. Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta. Cresta is on a mission to turn every customer conversation into a competitive advantage. Our unified platform combines both AI and human intelligence to enable 1. automating conversations with AI Agents and 2. transform their contact centers to discover customer insights. Born from the Stanford AI lab, Cresta's co-founder and chairman is Sebastian Thrun , the genius behind Google X, Waymo, and Udacity. Our leadership includes CEO, Ping Wu , the co-founder of Google Contact Center AI & Vertex AI platform, and co-founder, Tim Shi , an early member of Open AI in 2017. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Sequoia, and former AT&T CEO John Donovan. Our valued customers include brands like Airbnb, United Airlines, Hilton, Porsche, United Healthcare, Intuit, Cox Communications, and Carmax and we’ve been recognized by Forbes, Forrestor, and Bain Consulting as one of the top private AI companies in the world.
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the Role: As an Associate Forward-Deployed Product Manager on the AI Agents team, you will create, deploy, and optimize AI Agents that transform our customers’ businesses and delight their customers. This customer-facing role blends product thinking, prompt engineering, data-driven insights, and project leadership with Strategic & Fortune 500 companies. In this role, you’ll collaborate with senior Forward-deployed Product Managers and Forward-deployed Engineers (FDEs) to support the build of AI Agent products. What You’ll Do: Drive AI Agent deployments for customers across the lifecycle — from pre-sales to post-launch optimization Define AI roadmaps for the customer’s executive team by blending both quantitative analysis and qualitative insights; leverage automated conversation discovery tools in addition to traditional data analysis Iterate prompt & context engineering to achieve customer’s use case and intended business outcomes Own designing and running evaluations and A/B tests of AI Agents with Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs) using Cresta’s agent builder and beta internal tools Improve our playbooks for agent development and customer deployment