Client: Confidential Technology Company
Job Title: Senior Product Manager - AI Products
Experience Level: 5+ years
Location: In office in San Jose, CA on Mondays, WFH on Tuesdays/Fridays, San Jose, CA or San Francisco, CA office on Wednesdays/Thursdays.
Employment Type: Full Time Range: TBD Equity: Competitive
About the Role
Our client is looking for a product leader who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves solving complex customer problems, and is driven to build AI-powered products that make a tangible impact. The Product Manager not only defines what to build, but deeply understands why it matters. Someone who blends curiosity, creativity, technical understanding, and customer empathy to drive both adoption and outcomes. This is a high-impact, high-visibility opportunity to shape the product direction of an ambitious AI company. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to validate hypotheses, enable GTM teams, and deliver products that reduce time to value for Media & Entertainment customers.
Responsibilities
Customer Discovery & Problem Framing
Engage directly with customers in the Media & Entertainment space to
understand their workflows, pain points, and untapped opportunities.
Spend time in the field with customers to understand their workflows,
challenges, and goals.
Become an expert in customer domains and translate real-world insights &
problems into actionable product strategy.
Conduct field research, lightweight prototyping, and testing to validate
user hypotheses before investing in full-scale development.
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of new product development, from alpha
through beta to GA.
Define product roadmaps grounded in customer value, technical
feasibility, and business impact.
Identify the right product levers to drive adoption, reduce time to sale, and
accelerate customer success.
Iterative Development & Execution
Establish a strong hypothesis-driven product development loop,
continuously experimenting and learning from users.
Lead structured product discovery efforts grounded in hypothesis testing
and feedback loops.
Use both qualitative feedback and quantitative signals to prioritize,
validate, and iterate on features.
Collaborate closely with engineering, ML, design, customer solutions, and
sales to ship usable, lovable, and scalable features.
Go-to-Market Enablement & Adoption
Partner with sales and customer success to enable successful launches,
define training and onboarding materials, and shorten ramp times for GTM
teams.
Design and manage beta programs to gather early feedback, build
champions, and refine feature sets.
Ensure each product release is coupled with clear messaging, enablement,
and adoption strategies.
Strategic Impact & Vision
Contribute to the company's long-term product strategy by identifying
opportunities where AI can drive transformative value for our customers.
Influence leadership and stakeholders through clear, evidence-backed
communication of product bets and tradeoffs.
Act as a thought partner in applying AI meaningfully, especially in
multimodal domains like video, audio, and text.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in product management, ideally at early-stage or high-
growth startups.
Proven success building and scaling enterprise or data/AI-powered products
from concept to scale.
Demonstrated experience with customer discovery, field research, and
product hypothesis validation.
Strong understanding of AI technologies including computer vision, natural
language processing, and multimodal learning.
Experience working with technical teams on rapid iteration, experimentation,
and continuous delivery.
Ability to communicate with clarity and influence across design, engineering,
GTM, and executive stakeholders.
A bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and a relentless drive to solve real
problems with elegant solutions.
Why This Role is Unique
Strategic Impact: You will help shape the future direction of Coactive's AI
platform at a pivotal stage of growth.
Customer-Centered Innovation: You'll have direct access to customers and
the autonomy to build what they truly need, not just what they ask for.
Cross-Functional Leadership: You'll partner deeply across the company, from
engineering to sales, enabling not just product development but also GTM
execution.
AI at the Edge: You'll work on cutting-edge applications of AI in a domain rich
with untapped potentialβmultimodal content in media and entertainment.
If you're passionate about AI, product innovation, and making a measurable
difference in customers lives, we want to hear from you.