Senior AI Product Manager

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equitys value creation partner we sit at the heart of PEwhere sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data technology and AI we help clients drive valuesupporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking togrow come solvecomplexissues alongside1400 finance & technology experts ina supportive collaborativeenvironment.

Backedby premier private equity firms and headquarteredin New York with 10officesaroundtheglobe we are a high-growth entrepreneurial firmlookingforpeoplewhowantto be part of buildingsomethinggreat. Come make your mark.

Data & Analytics

Accordions Data & Analytics (D&A) team offers cutting-edge intelligent solutions to a global clientele leveraging a blend of domain knowledge sophisticated technology tools and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors including Retail CPG Healthcare Media & Entertainment Technology and Logistics.

We deliver data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales Operations Marketing Pricing Customer Strategies and more.

This role can be based in any of our US office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

About the Role

Were hiring a Senior AI Product Manager to build and scale AI-enabled software products across Accordions solution portfolio. You will own the AI product vision for how GenAI agentic systems and predictive automation reshape our solutions and client workflows and drive that vision from discovery through production and scaled adoption. Partnering closely with software and AI engineers Solution leaders and delivery teams youll translate real customer and consultant needs into prioritized roadmaps clear requirements and shipped capabilities with measurable impact. As the product owner for AI features youre accountable for product outcomesensuring what we build is valuable usable reliable and delivers ROI at scale.

What Youll Do

Own AI product vision & roadmap

• Define the AI vision per solution including user problems workflows success metrics and a prioritized product roadmap.
• Identify and validate high-value use cases (copilots agentic automation predictive insights) translating them into product bets with KPIs.

Build vs. buy leadership

• Scan the market for GenAI/LLM tools and vendors; run structured evaluations and POCs.
• Craft build/buy/partner recommendations and negotiate technical requirements and integration plans.

Product discovery & delivery with engineering

• Drive end-to-end product development with engineering and design: discovery PRD architecture tradeoffs build launch iterate.
• Translate client and consultant needs into clear requirements APIs UX flows and release plans.
• Ensure product quality in production across reliability latency accuracy safety and cost.

Production GenAI systems

• Lead delivery of real user-facing GenAI capabilities (RAG agentic workflows tool/function calling evaluation harnesses observability).
• Establish measurement frameworks for model and system performance over time.

Responsible AI & risk

• Partner with governance and security leaders to implement guardrails for safety privacy compliance (PII/PHI) bias testing and auditability.
• Ensure human-in-the-loop design where required.

Commercial outcomes & client impact

• Build business cases pricing/packaging adoption plans and ROI tracking for new AI products.
• Support pre-sales demos and client executive briefings; drive post-launch adoption and value capture.

Client-facing product leadership

• Lead high-stakes client sessions (CFOs PE partners operator teams) to shape AI product direction.
• Confidently guide tradeoffs push back when needed and represent Accordion as the AI product leader.

Travel

• Travel to client sites as needed.

Success in the First 612 Months

• Launch multiple AI tools either embedded in core Accordion solutions or with clients with clear adoption and ROI metrics.
• Stand up a repeatable build-vs-buy evaluation pilot-to-production playbook.
• Establish AI product KPI dashboards (quality latency cost risk) for all AI features in market.
• Become a trusted product leader to Solutions Consulting delivery and the Accordion Intelligence Labknown for clarity speed and technical depth.

What Youll Bring

• 10 years in product leadership or product ownership including 5 years building AI-enabled software products in SaaS/enterprise/fintech or equivalent environments.
• Proven record taking AI features from concept to prototype to production and scaled adoption with clear KPIs and measurable ROI.
• Strong engineering fluency from prior software/AI engineering experience or deeply technical product work; able to drive architecture tradeoffs and execution with senior engineers.
• Production GenAI experience delivering LLM/RAG/agentic systems embedded in real workflows including evaluation observability safety guardrails and cost/latency optimization.
• Excellent product craft: customer discovery PRDs roadmap prioritization metrics (activation retention quality latency cost-to-serve) and agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban).
• Executive presence and client leadership: confident guiding senior stakeholders facilitating tough tradeoffs and pushing back when needed across practices and geographies.
• Nice to have: familiarity with CFO/finance solutions PE value creation healthcare or industrials; experience with AI governance prompt safety bias testing and FinOps for AI.

Preferred Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science Engineering AI or equivalent engineering product shipping experience.
• Product/Agile credentials (PSPO/CSPO PMI-ACP SAFe) a plus.

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $170000 to $225000 USD benefits bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate including but not limited to geographic location skill set years and depth of experience education certifications cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion marital status age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy genetic information gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression veteran status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency person or entity.

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