[Hiring] Director of Product Management, AI Generation Engine @SandboxAQ

Role Description

As the Director of Product Management for the AI Generation Engine (SAIGE), you will be the PM lead for the team and a key partner to engineering, research, and user research. You will:

• Own the product strategy and execution for our efforts in Finance & Risk Modeling, partnering closely with financial services and insurance customers to understand their workflows, risk models, and decision-making processes.
• Lead rapid prototyping and innovation across a broad range of new ideas and domains, driving 0→1 product discovery, experimentation, and incubation of high-potential use cases.
• Operate in a highly ambiguous, fast-changing environment, providing clarity on priorities, making pragmatic trade-offs, and ensuring we ship impactful prototypes and products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy in Finance & Risk Modeling.
• Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for our Finance/Risk portfolio, focusing on financial services and insurance (e.g., portfolio risk, capital modeling, risk analytics, underwriting, and related workflows).
• Develop a deep understanding of customer contexts, including current tools, models, and data flows (e.g., portfolio/risk modeling systems, vendor platforms, internal analytics stacks).
• Partner with quantitative researchers, ML engineers, and domain experts to translate customer problems into clear product requirements and model/data needs.
• Define success metrics and validation strategies to compare our approaches against existing PML/ERM and portfolio views, and to demonstrate differentiated value.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize new AI/LQM use cases across multiple domains (beyond Finance/Risk), from early signals to clearer opportunities.
• Lead 0→1 product discovery: problem framing, hypothesis development, lightweight customer validation, and rapid iteration on prototypes.
• Work with engineering and research to scope experiments that are small enough to move quickly but meaningful enough to answer key questions.
• Establish and champion a rigorous but pragmatic approach to ruthless prioritization, ensuring the team focuses on the highest-impact opportunities.
• Serve as a trusted product partner to senior stakeholders at key customers (e.g., heads of risk, portfolio managers, actuaries, CROs), speaking credibly about risk models, scenarios, and portfolio decisions.
• Lead customer conversations from initial discovery through pilot definition and ongoing adoption, connecting customer needs to the SAIGE roadmap.
• Communicate progress, learnings, and recommendations clearly to internal and external stakeholders, including executives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, with substantial time spent on complex B2B or platform products; at least several years operating at a senior/staff/principal/director level (e.g., L7-equivalent scope).
• Experience in financial services and/or insurance, especially in one or more of:
  • Risk modeling (e.g., portfolio risk, capital modeling, asset-liability management, market/credit risk, or insurance risk)
  • Financial simulation or scenario analysis
  • Portfolio analytics or decision support tools
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with quantitative and engineering teams.
• Proven track record of 0→1 product work.
• Strong ruthless prioritization skills.
• Exceptional customer-facing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution without heavy process or structure.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions.
• Retirement savings with company matching.
• Paid parental leave and inclusive family-building benefits.
• Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs.