Senior Product Manager (Data Licensing & AI Services)

Requirements

• The ideal candidate is a design-savvy, data-informed, technically fluent Senior Product Manager with a strong vision for customers’ model training workflows and needs,
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Product Management, Computer Science, AI, Business, or related field,
• 5+ years in product management, ideally with SaaS, APIs, or AI-powered applications,
• Track record of shipping B2B platform-based products,
• Proven success in stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams,
• Experience managing products dealing with hyperscale data ingestion and processing (petabyte-scale multimedia datasets),
• Experience managing products that integrate with customer/partner ML training pipelines,
• Deep understanding of data storage, ingress / egress, APIs, and metadata discovery / search,
• Ability to balance customer needs with revenue goals,
• Strong grasp of data governance for model training: provenance, rights/consent, auditability, retention, and policy enforcement,
• Working knowledge of AI models, APIs, and cloud-based integrations,
• Fluency in data/metrics to drive product decisions,
• Deep familiarity with customer ML workflows (multimodal/3D), including how teams consume datasets, human feedback, and evaluation results. ',
• Strong design instincts and ability to guide UX teams,
• Competitive research mindset to benchmark implementations,
• Skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, design, product, sales, and marketing,
• Excellent communicator across technical and executive audiences,
• Customer-first orientation with enterprise and end-user empathy,
• Passion for generative AI and rapid market evolution,
• Ability to connect long-term vision with disciplined execution

What the job involves

• Shutterstock is building the engine to power the next generation of Generative AI through licensed data and bespoke training support services,
• We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of our Licensed Data & Training Services Platform,
• This platform will be the backbone of our AI Data Licensing & Services business: a storage, curation, and orchestration layer that helps customers and partners manage data licensing and services like content production, annotation, expert feedback, and model evaluation,
• This is both a highly strategic and hands-on role,
• The Senior Product Manager must balance roadmap execution, design leadership, market awareness, and stakeholder alignment to ensure Shutterstock successfully builds it's new Licensed Data & Training Services Platform,
• Capture requirements, understand customer needs and scope Shutterstock’s new Licensed Data & Training Services Platform,
• At every relevant point thoughtfully consider and analyze component features and determine if partnering or building represents the best path forward for the business,
• Execute roadmap and successfully launch the Licensed Data & Training Services Platform in partnership with core engineering and the ML team,
• Understand and execute a logical phased approach that balances speed-to-market with core needs and also appropriately tiers our approach across internal teams and customer needs,
• Ensure alignment of priorities across key business unit sponsors and engage in deep understanding of business needs such that roadmap reflects impact and business objectives,
• Partner closely with all business unit stakeholders to ensure the platform strategy is well understood, removing any friction from achieving build and launch milestones and timelines,
• Act as a bridge between engineering and the rest of the team, always ensuring clear understanding of new capabilities, timelines, value propositions, and competitive positioning,
• Identify and maintain partnerships with key technical and other partners to ensure seamless and rapid integration as defined and appropriate,
• Track industry trends, evaluate competitor products, and research third-party vendor capabilities to inform roadmap decisions,
• Facilitate onboarding and related documentation for content suppliers including reporting and other metrics that drive these key strategic partnerships,
• Understand the AI model training lifecycle and the natural Shutterstock touchpoints with customers to deliver value and relationship expansion,
• Define and document benchmarks for platform performance and continually enhance and improve capabilities to ensure the business is maximizing its opportunity