Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Akkio is an AI infrastructure company that automates campaign workflows for media agencies. As a Senior Product Manager, you will work at the intersection of AI technology and media agency transformation, collaborating with engineering and design teams, and engaging directly with customers to shape product direction and drive market adoption.
Responsibilities
- Discover and define: deeply understand common workflows and jobs-to-be-done within media agencies, identifying opportunities where AI can create transformational value
- Prototype with AI: use agentic coding tools to turn ideas into working demos, validating direction with customers and engineering before a line of production code is written
- Translate vision into reality: convert customer insights into clear product requirements and running prototypes 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
Skills
- Proven product leadership: a track record of shipping impressive software products, with roles of increasing responsibility
- You've deeply integrated AI into your daily workflow; you use it for research synthesis, analysis, drafting, and prototyping, and you can build a working demo with agentic coding tools without waiting on an engineer
- You thrive on ownership: you've repeatedly taken loosely defined or shifting priorities and delivered great products anyway, filling gaps with judgment rather than waiting for direction
- Technical foundation: a CS, Engineering, or Design background, and the credibility to lead teams of software engineers and designers in building great products
- Domain expertise: experience in AI startups or AdTech product companies, with knowledge of AI technology or media agency operations strongly preferred
- Strong product instinct: you immediately recognize good versus bad product decisions, think fast on your feet, and set direction rather than just relay information
- Executive presence: you command the room with senior leaders, keeping pace with (and ideally leading) strategic conversations and demos
- Travel flexibility: willing to spend significant time in NYC working directly with customers
- Must be authorized to work in the US
- Public artifacts of your AI-native workflow: prototypes you've shipped with agentic coding tools, published MCP servers, or writing about how you work with AI
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products: agent experiences, evals, or AI-native workflow tools
- Direct experience with media agency operations, programmatic advertising, or marketing analytics
- Previous early-stage startup experience
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Generous PTO policy
- Substantial equity grants
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