Senior Product Manager

Akkio is the AI infrastructure platform that powers and automates workflows across the media ecosystem. As Senior Product Manager, you'll work at the intersection of AI technology and media agency transformation, collaborating with engineering and design teams while engaging directly with customers to shape product strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Discover and define: Deeply understand common workflows and jobs-to-be-done within media agencies, identifying opportunities where AI can create transformational value
• Translate vision into reality: Convert customer insights into clear product requirements for our engineering and design teams
• Lead product development: Set direction and guide cross-functional teams through the product creation process, course-correcting as solutions come to life
• Engage with customers: Present and demo solutions to senior agency leaders, gathering feedback and building relationships that inform product strategy
• Make decisive calls: Use your product instinct to recognize strong versus weak product directions quickly and set the right course forward
• Build credibility: Earn the trust of both world-class engineers internally and C-level stakeholders externally through your technical depth and leadership presence

Requirements:

• CS, Engineering, or Design background or degree
• Track record of shipping impressive software products, with roles of increasing responsibility
• You know how to lead teams of software engineers and designers in building great products
• You immediately recognize good versus bad product decisions, think fast on your feet, and set direction rather than just relay information
• You command the room with senior leaders, keeping pace with (and ideally leading) strategic conversations and demos
• Willing to spend significant time in NYC working directly with customers
• Must be authorized to work in the US
• Experience in AI startups or AdTech product companies (knowledge of either AI technology or media agency operations strongly preferred)