Head of Product

Location: New York

Head of Product NYC-Metro Engineering/Product Hybrid Full -time### Build the AI workforce that finance can actually trust.##### ##### We are closing the gap between what AI promises and what regulated institutions can responsibly deploy.##### If you  fall in love with hard problems — not easy answers — this is where your work matters.

The Role We're hiring our first Head of Product to own product strategy and execution across Obin's platform. This is a builder's role: you'll be deeply hands-on — partnering with engineering to ship AI-driven workflows, working directly with our domain SME network to translate institutional-finance expertise into product logic, and engaging PE, insurance, and private-credit customers to ensure what we build actually gets adopted in production, regulated environments.

As we grow, you'll build and lead the product organization.

What You'll Do
- Own product strategy and roadmap for Obin's platform, connecting a compelling, well-founded strategy to company-level growth — not just a bucketed list of feature requests.

- Go deep with customers (PE operations teams, insurance claims/carrier ops, private-credit fund administrators) to build a first-hand, evidence-backed understanding of their workflows, pain points, and what  good  looks like — beyond what's asked for in sales calls.

- Partner closely with Engineering
* * on technical trade-offs inherent to an AI-native product: model selection and evaluation, human-in-the-loop design, data/reference-data architecture, and where automation should (and shouldn't) replace expert judgment.

- Translate domain SME expertise into product * *, working with Obin's network of senior asset-servicing, claims, and valuation specialists to encode their judgment into configuration, workflows, and baseline solutions.

- Operationalize strategy into shippable increments * *, setting objectives that cascade to the team level, running a tight build-measure-learn loop, and adapting the roadmap as you learn — without losing coherence across the platform.

- Build and lead the product function
* * as Obin scales — hire, coach, and develop product managers; stand up the product operating model appropriate to our stage (not a big-company process overlay on a startup team).

- Operate as a business leader * *, not just a product manager: understand our unit economics, what drives revenue and margin in our segments, and how product decisions affect them; represent product in front of customers, investors, and the leadership team.

Must-Haves- 10+ years in product management, including 3+ years directly managing PMs * *, with a track record of owning and shipping products that customers demonstrably love (not just shipped — adopted, renewed, expanded).

- Deep domain fluency in at least one of: private equity/asset-management operations, insurance (P&C) claims, or private credit/fund administration * * — enough to challenge and validate SME input, not just relay it.

- Genuine technical fluency * *: comfortable driving trade-offs on AI/ML-driven products, partners with engineering as a peer rather than an  arms-length  requester, and can break down ambiguous technical challenges into scoped problems. (Prior technical degree, hands-on coding experience, or a track record building technically demanding products is a strong signal here.)- Proven ability to build and communicate strategy that changes what the company does * * — not a retrospective narrative fitted to a roadmap that would have happened anyway.

- 0-to-1 or 1-to-n product-building experience
* * at a startup or a new business line inside a larger company, comfortable with ambiguity and a small team.

- Direct customer-facing experience
* * with enterprise/institutional buyers — able to run…