Staff Product Manager, AI Platform

Headquarters: USA (Remote) Affinity is the relationship intelligence CRM platform trusted by private equity, venture capital, and investment banking professionals to unlock the power of their network. We help the world's most sophisticated dealmakers turn relationships into results. As a Staff Product Manager for AI Platform , you'll lead one of our most strategically important product domains—the foundational AI capabilities that empower product teams across the organization to build intelligent solutions for our customers. You'll own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for our core AI platform services, including semantic search, AI guardrails, agentic frameworks, and similarity and recommendation models. Your work will directly enable teams to augment workflows, automate processes, and deliver the next generation of AI-powered experiences. In this role, you will define the platform vision and be responsible for measuring adoption, developer experience, and business impact. You will partner with cross-functional teams to conduct research, run experiments, lead teams through design and engineering sprints, define success metrics, measure impact, and ultimately ship platform capabilities that accelerate innovation across the product portfolio. You're excited about this opportunity because you will: Define and drive the vision for a modern AI platform that serves as the foundation for product innovation across the company. Own a portfolio of high-impact capabilities—semantic search, AI guardrails, agentic frameworks, and similarity and recommendation models—that teams rely on to deliver customer value. Build for builders: design APIs, abstractions, and developer experiences that make it easy for product teams to integrate sophisticated AI into their solutions. Establish guardrails and governance frameworks that ensure our AI capabilities are safe, reliable, and aligned with responsible AI principles. Navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape, evaluating build-vs-buy decisions and staying ahead of emerging technologies and best practices. Partner closely with engineering, applied science, and design teams to lead discovery, definition, and delivery of platform capabilities that drive measurable business outcomes. We’re excited about you because you have : Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years at a B2B SaaS company (enterprise software experience a plus). Experience leveraging complex technology to create delightful product solutions and leveraging AI/ML to drive insights and recommendations. Experience working on zero-to-one products, or leading experiment-based concepts and prototyping quickly to validate ideas before development. Experience collaborating closely with engineering, AI/ML and design teams end-to-end to drive business impact. Strong communication skills that foster cross-team collaboration and ensure alignment on key outcomes and objectives. Deep understanding and empathy for users. Deep interest in how technology can unlock the power of professional networks and transform private capital investing, with enthusiasm for Affinity's mission. How we work: Our culture is a key part of how we operate, as well as our hiring process: We iterate quickly. As such, you must be comfortable embracing ambiguity, be able to cut through it, and deliver value to our customers. We are candid, transparent, and speak our minds while simultaneously caring personally with each person we interact with. We make data-driven decisions and make the best decis