Sr. Product Manager, AI Model Training

The Opportunity:

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. 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.

The Day-to-Day:

Product & Roadmap Leadership

* 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.

Stakeholder Management & Strategic Alignment

* 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.

Partner & Market Engagement

* 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.

Technical & Analytical Contribution

* 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.

What You'll Bring to the Role:

* 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.

Key Skills & Competencies

Product & Business Acumen

* 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.

Technical & Analytical Skills

* 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. '

Design & UX Judgment

* Strong design instincts and ability to guide UX teams.

* Competitive research mindset to benchmark implementations.

Leadership & Collaboration

* 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.

Curiosity & Vision

* Passion for generative AI and rapid market evolution.

* Ability to connect long-term vision with disciplined execution.

Why Shutterstock:

* You have a direct impact on the success of the company. Your work matters and is essential to the evolution of our growing AI Business

* Executive leadership cares personally. They prioritize growth and…