Director, Product Management, AI Data Platform

Shutterstock, Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Shutterstock, Inc. in New York seeks a Director of Product Management to own the strategy, customer experience, and development of the AI Data Platform.

This leader will guide the platform from initial build through expansion, partnering with engineering, design, AI/ML, and commercial teams to translate customer needs into a scalable roadmap. You will own platform direction across search, discovery, and data access, ensuring AI-native experiences and monetization opportunities align with

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience leading complex products across data, developer, enterprise software, or AI.
• Demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into platform strategy and roadmap.
• Experience partnering with engineering, design, AI/ML, and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Platform Vision and drive the roadmap for Shutterstock’s AI Data Platform.
• Define end-to-end customer experiences for AI developers, researchers, and enterprises.
• Partner with Data Products to translate offerings into discovery and access experiences.
• Lead platform product direction across search, discovery, APIs, and data delivery.
• Build and lead a high-performing platform product team.

Skills

Product strategy

Platform product management

Cross-functional leadership

AI/ML platforms

Customer experience

Tools

ChatGPT

Job description

We are seeking a Director of Product Management to join Shutterstock’s Data Licensing & AI Services team and lead the strategy, customer experience, and development of Shutterstock’s AI Data Platform. This platform will make Shutterstock’s growing portfolio of multimodal data easy for AI developers and enterprises to discover, evaluate, and access for model training, inference, and emerging AI applications. As we scale our AI data business, this role will own the platform experience, partnering closely with our Data Products lead who owns the data and offerings that power it. Together, these teams will connect Shutterstock’s expanding data supply with customer demand and create a scalable, differentiated experience for discovering and accessing data. This leader will partner deeply with engineering, design, AI/ML, and commercial teams to translate customer needs and business opportunities into a clear platform strategy and roadmap, leading the platform from its initial build through continued expansion and adoption.

Product Strategy & Customer Experience

Own the Platform Vision: Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for Shutterstock’s AI Data Platform, balancing near-term customer opportunities with the capabilities required to build a scalable long-term business

Own the Customer Experience: Define intuitive, end-to-end experiences for how AI developers, researchers, data teams, and enterprises discover, understand, evaluate, access, and integrate data into their workflows

Connect Data Products to Customer Experience: Partner closely with our Data Products lead to translate Shutterstock’s growing portfolio of offerings into compelling discovery, evaluation, and access experiences

Make Clear Product Decisions: Establish what matters now, what can wait, and where we need to learn, making clear tradeoffs even when information is incomplete

Build & Lead the Team: Build and develop a high-performing platform product team, evolving the organization and capabilities needed to scale the platform and business

Platform & Engineering Execution

Lead Platform Product Direction: Drive product direction across search and discovery, customer evaluation, AI-assisted experiences, APIs and feeds, workspaces, data access, and delivery

Guide Engineering Execution: Translate customer and business needs into clear priorities and product decisions that allow engineering and design teams to move with speed and confidence

Partner on Technical Strategy: Work closely with senior engineering and technology leaders on architecture and technical tradeoffs, ensuring technology investments support the customer experiences and use cases we are building toward

Drive Iterative Delivery: Know when deeper discovery is required and when to make the best available bet, ship, learn, and improve AI, Market & Business Impact

Build AI-Native Experiences: Identify where AI, agentic capabilities, and automation can simplify data discovery, evaluation, access, and other complex customer workflows

Extend the Platform Ecosystem: Identify opportunities to bring Shutterstock data into the platforms, marketplaces, and AI workflows where developers build, including through APIs, integrations, and strategic product partnerships

Connect Product and Market: Work closely with customers, Sales, Business Development, and other key stakeholders to translate market demand into scalable platform capabilities

Shape the Platform Business Model: Define how customers access and engage with the platform and identify opportunities for platform-level monetization

Own Platform Product Outcomes: Establish clear measures of success and use customer feedback, usage, and business results to continuously evolve the platform

Qualifications

Proven Product Leadership: 8+ years of product management experience leading and scaling complex products across data, developer, enterprise software, or AI

AI-Powered Prototyping: Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools, including ChatGPT and similar technologies, to accelerate product discovery and design by creating prototype workflows and clickable front-end concepts. Works effectively with UX to refine requirements, visualize interactions, and communicate product intent before full engineering build-out

Zero-to-One Experience: Demonstrated success taking major products or platforms from ambiguity and concept through launch, customer adoption, and iteration

Product Judgment & Bias for Action: A track record of making clear product decisions and tradeoffs with incomplete information, enabling teams to move quickly, learn, and iterate

Customer Experience Leadership: Strong customer instincts and experience translating sophisticated workflows and unmet needs into intuitive, scalable product experiences

Technical Fluency: Strong understanding of modern data and platform concepts—including APIs, search and retrieval, data pipelines, cloud platforms, and AI/ML systems—with the ability to effectively lead and influence senior technology teams

Relevant Platform Experience: Experience with AI/ML platforms, data platforms, developer products, search and discovery, data marketplaces, or large-scale content platforms strongly preferred

Executive Leadership: Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to create alignment across technical, product, commercial, and executive stakeholders

#LI-MS1 At Shutterstock, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. The compensation package offered may vary depending on employment experience, skills, and knowledge. You may also be eligible for our generous benefits package including health, wellness and financial benefits.

Compensation ranges for candidates in locations outside of the location(s) below may differ based on the cost of labor, market, and additional factors. The pay range for this position is below: 220,000 - 240,000 per year in New York Note: Commission-eligible roles are expressed as on-target earnings (base and commission). Non-commission roles are expressed as base salary only but are also eligible for annual incentives.

Shutterstock Values

We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors.

Our Values represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock. If you are passionate about what you do, and want to become part of a cutting-edge technology company building industry leading products.

Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [e-mail].

The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting.

Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), directly and through its group subsidiaries, is a leading global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world.

Working with its growing community of over 1 million contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 340 million images and more than 19 million video clips available.

Headquartered in New York City, Shutterstock has offices around the world and customers in more than 150 countries.

The company’s brands also include Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media offering; Shutterstock Custom, a custom content creation platform; Offset, a high-end image collection; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music library; and Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial images for the world's media.

For more information, please visit http://www.shutterstock.com and follow Shutterstock on Twitter and on Facebook.

Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [e-mail].

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