Product Manager, AI Strategy

Obin AI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech firm located in New York seeks a Forward Deployed Product Manager. In this hybrid role, you will work closely with finance sector clients to understand their workflows and convert those insights into product requirements. The ideal candidate will have 3–6 years of relevant experience, be finance-savvy, and possess strong technical understanding as they collaborate with engineers to drive impactful integrations and solutions.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in product, strategy, consulting, or similar roles.
• Strong exposure to technical concepts, ideally working closely with full-stack or infrastructure engineers.
• Background in finance, fintech, or management consulting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary product interface to customers, translating needs into product workstreams.
• Gather requirements, define MVPs, and guide solution implementation.
• Translate customer workflows into technical integration needs and product specs.
• Participate in onsite/hands-on deployments to ensure product onboarding.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to prioritize and launch product features.

Skills

Finance-savvy

Customer-obsessed

Technically fluent

Structured thinker

Builder mindset

Job description

**About the Role:****We're looking for a Forward Deployed Product Manager** to join our team as one of our earliest hires. You’ll work directly with customers—primarily in the finance sector—to deeply understand their workflows, uncover impactful AI use cases, and translate those into product requirements for our engineering team.You won’t be expected to code, but you’ll need a solid grasp of technical systems and data flows. You’ll partner with full-stack engineers to build secure, scalable integrations with financial systems and deliver solutions that create real business value.This is a hybrid, high-ownership role based in **New York**, with regular in-office collaboration.**What You’ll Do:****● Own customer success**: Serve as the primary product interface to our customers, translating their needs into structured product workstreams.● **Drive discovery and delivery**: Work across customer engagements to gather requirements, define MVPs, and guide solution implementation.● **Bridge business and engineering**: Translate customer workflows into technical integration needs and product specs for engineers.● **Deploy for impact**: Participate in onsite/hands-on deployments to ensure successful onboarding and usage of our product.● **Deliver quickly**: Collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced startup environment to prioritize and launch product features quickly and iteratively.**Expectations:****● Finance-savvy**: You understand financial systems and data flows or have worked in a finance-adjacent role (e.g., fintech, investment banking, or management consulting).● **Customer-obsessed**: You’re comfortable interfacing with clients, unblocking deployments, and delivering value.● **Technically fluent**: While you won't be coding, you understand how APIs work, how data flows between systems, and can speak fluently with engineers.● **Structured thinker**: You can distill ambiguity into clear problem statements and action plans.● **Builder mindset**: You thrive in zero-to-one environments and are comfortable wearing multiple hats.**Experience:****● 3–6 years of experience in product, strategy, consulting, or similar roles****● Strong exposure to technical concepts, ideally working closely with full-stack or infrastructure engineers**● Background in **finance, fintech**, or **management consulting** (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or investment banking are strong pluses)Location \*Years of experience \*Rate your familiarity with using AI assistants for product management (1 - 4 with 1 lowest) and explain \*Single sentence description of your last project involving AI agents \*