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Technical Product Owner, Enterprise Search & AI
3M Company · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What 3M Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Senior Product Developer” (Chemical Engineers) in MN: $127k–$127k, median $127k. Most were filed at wage level II (100%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — 3M Company
The US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description: Technical Product Owner, Enterprise Search & AI Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers. This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career . The Impact You’ll Make in this Role As a Technical Product Owner for Enterprise Search & AI, you will serve as the critical operational bridge between strategic platform roadmaps and technical sprint execution for 3M’s enterprise search ecosystem. Operating as an individual contributor within a cross-functional pod, you will deconstruct high-level business needs into actionable technical requirements across search infrastructure, AI-powered retrieval, and digital experience platforms, prioritizing the day-to-day tactical backlog to deliver scalable, high-performance search capabilities that power digital commerce, content discovery, and emerging AI applications. Here, you will make an impact by: • Backlog & Requirement Engineering — Translating the Director of Product & Portfolio Management’s long-term search and AI platform vision into highly detailed user stories, technical specifications, and structured acceptance criteria spanning search API enhancements, ingestion pipeline improvements, index architecture changes, and AI retrieval features. • Tactical Backlog Prioritization — Owning, refining, and prioritizing the day-to-day pod-level backlog to optimize sprint velocity and engineering throughput across the enterprise search stack, balancing platform reliability work against new AI-driven capabilities such as hybrid retrieval, semantic search, and RAG-enabled experiences. • Sprint Execution Guidance — Partnering daily with the Enterprise Search Tech Lead and vendor engineers to provide absolute clarity on execution requirements during agile ceremonies, ensuring alignment on search relevance tuning, infrastructure-as-code changes, and AI model integration work. • Product Quality & Acceptance — Serving as the gatekeeper for user acceptance testing (UAT), verifying that vendor-built and internally developed artifacts strictly adhere to defined technical benchmarks for search performance, relevance accuracy, API response times, and AI output quality before release. • Adoption & Platform Feedback — Monitoring search platform utilization, tracking adoption metrics across consuming applications (product navigator, digital commerce, AI assistants), and funneling real-world feedback on search relevance and AI feature effectiveness back to the Product & Portfolio Management director. • AI & Search Capability Evolution — Defining and prioritizing product requirements for the platform’s evolution toward hybrid retrieval approaches combining lexical and semantic/vector search, supporting RAG pipelines, LLM grounding, and agentic AI use cases that drive competitive advantage. • Multi-Feature Capability Mapping — Mastering competing business group requirements across interconnected search, content, and AI platform modules, governing dependencies and release schedules across ingestion workflows, search APIs, and downstream digital experiences. • Shared Accountability: Release & Deployment — Co-owning product release schedules and deployment calendar targets alongside Program/Project Managers (PVMO), coordinating CI/CD pipeline releases and infrastructure changes. • Shared Accountabili