Senior Director of Product Management

Affinity; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Learning & Development

Wellness reimbursement

Team events

Job summary

Affinity, the AI-first CRM for private capital, seeks a Senior Director of Product Management to lead and inspire the PM organization. This role shapes the PM cadence, crafts AI-enabled product processes, and partners with engineering, design, and marketing to drive delivery across the product surface.

You will set high PM standards, drive strategic alignment, and mentor a team of senior PMs and analysts to deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management with 5+ years leading PM teams.
• Proven ability to raise the bar on PM craft and cadence.
• Strong alignment of PM decisions to business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers and analysts.
• Own the PM operating cadence: roadmap reviews, planning, prioritization.
• Set and uphold PM craft standards across discovery, scoping, delivery.
• Advance AI fluency and adoption across the team’s practices.
• Partner with engineering, design, and product marketing on delivery.
• Translate strategy into executable plans with clear priorities.
• Build metrics and impact models tying work to outcomes.
• Hire and cultivate PM talent and culture.
• Operate as a senior Affinity leader contributing to strategy.

Skills

PM leadership

Strategic mindset

AI in PM

B2B/enterprise

Communication

People leadership

Adaptability

Job description

Affinity is an AI-first CRM for private capital that helps dealmakers find, manage, and close more deals by using the power of their network. Investors, dealmakers, and operators rely on us to turn relationship signals into action.

As our Senior Director of Product Management , you’ll lead our entire product management team. You’ll own how the team operates, how it executes, and how it levels up on the PM craft especially through AI fluency. You’ll partner closely with Build leadership to shape what Affinity becomes over the next several years. You’ll report directly to the SVP of Product.

This is a pivotal moment for Affinity. Through this year, we’ve evolved our CRM to become a system of action, with agents and AI running now through the core of the product. We have a strong, senior team working on problems that matter, and we’re looking to bring on a PM leader with a strong point of view on craft, on team, and how the discipline itself is evolving.

What you’ll do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers plus our product analyst. Most are staff or principal and operate as leaders in their own space.

• Own the PM operating cadence: roadmap and execution reviews, planning cycles, prioritization, and the triad model with engineering and design.

• Set the bar for PM craft at Affinity. Define what good looks like across discovery, prioritization, scoping, delivery, and organizational influence, and hold the team to it.

• Lead how the team continues to grow on AI fluency. Our team already leverages AI for prototyping, rapid analysis, creating PRDs, generating updates, and submitting their own PRs. You’ll continue to develop team-wide practices and lead by example.

• Partner with engineering, design, and product marketing leadership on the operating model, quality, and delivery predictability across the product surface.

• Translate strategy into an executable plan. Ensure clear priorities and alignment across initiatives, roadmaps, team-level strategies, and the company & product strategy.

• Build the team’s strategic muscle: sharper metrics, impact modelling, and a stronger habit of tying product work to business outcomes.

• Hire as we grow, and establish a culture that both attracts and develops strong PM talent

• Operate as a senior leader at Affinity, contributing to strategic planning beyond your own function.

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years in product management, with at least 5 years leading and developing high-performing PM teams. You’ve managed leads or principal-level PMs.

• Genuine energy for evolving how PM teams operate. Team, culture, craft, and cadence are the parts of leadership you find most interesting.

• A strategic mindset. You can connect PM decisions to business outcomes, weigh trade-offs across short and long horizons, and influence company and product strategy.

• A track record of building teams that execute well. You’ve raised the bar on how a team works and can point to what changed.

• A clear point of view on how product management is changing with AI, and evidence you’ve applied it to your own work and your team’s.

• Experience in B2B or enterprise software with professional users. You understand workflow complexity, data quality expectations, and stakes of building for professional users.

• Comfort with pace and ambiguity. We’re a profitable company in the middle of a transformation, and you’re steady when priorities evolve with new learnings.

• Excellent written and verbal communication. You can rally a team, influence peers, and represent product management across the company.

• Directness paired with real care for people. You give honest feedback, build trust quickly, and grow the people around you.

• Nice to have: experience with private capital, financial services, or another domain where relationships and data are the product.

A note on qualifications:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are likely to only apply for jobs if they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

How we work:

Our culture is a key part of how we operate, as well as our hiring process:

• We iterate quickly. As such, you must be comfortable embracing ambiguity, be able to cut through it, and deliver value to our customers.

• We are candid, transparent, and speak our minds while simultaneously caring personally with each person we interact with.

• We make data-driven decisions and make the best decision for the moment based on the information available.

If you’d like to learn more about our values, click here.

_ Work Location: San Francisco, New York, or US Remote (Affinity is registered to employ in certain U.S. states)_

For those located in San Francisco or New York, for this role we’re embracing a hub-hybrid model, designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person collaboration. Team members within commuting distance are expected in-office 2 days per week, typically Tuesday through Thursday. We believe great things happen when people come together intentionally to connect, create, and build momentum as a team.

What you’ll enjoy at Affinity:

• We live our values: As owners, we take pride in everything we do. We embrace a growth mindset, engage in respectful candor, act as playmakers, and “taste the soup” by diving deep into experiences to create the best outcomes for our colleagues and clients.

• Health Benefits: We cover your medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums with comprehensive PPO, HDHP and HMO options (in CA), and offer flexible personal & sick days to support your well-being.

• Retirement Planning: We offer a 401(k) plan to help you plan your future.

• Learning & Development: We provide an annual education budget and a comprehensive L&D program.

• Wellness Support: We reimburse monthly for things like home internet, meals, and wellness memberships/equipment to support your overall health and happiness.

• Team Connection: Virtual team-building activities and socials to keep our team connected, because building strong relationships is key to success.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any equity or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job.

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $235,000 to $300,000 USD. Within the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant.

About Affinity

Affinity is the AI-first CRM for private capital, helping firms turn relationship intelligence into action across the investment lifecycle. Built on a decade of proprietary relationship, interaction and deal data, Affinity automatically captures activity, maps firm networks, and surfaces the connections and insights that help investors source, evaluate and win opportunities.

Trusted by more than 3,300 private capital firms, including 40% of the venture capital market and more than 330 private equity buyout teams, Affinity powers one of the industry’s deepest relationship graphs. The platform is built on more than 130 billion structured relationships, 177 million people tracked, 88 million companies tracked and 31 billion interactions, helping firms uncover opportunities sooner, move with greater conviction and scale institutional knowledge over time.

Learn more: affinity.co