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title: 'Head of Product at Obin AI'
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# Head of Product at Obin AI

- **Company:** Obin AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $250k–$325k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDr3kdF2AkkyDKUu1DBhXUKR

## Job description

## 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 discovery, negotiate scope, and hold a credible product conversation with sophisticated operations and technology counterparts at PE firms, insurers, or credit funds.
- Hands-on, player-coach orientation**: at this stage, you will personally write specs, run discovery calls, and dig into edge cases — not solely manage a team that does.

Good-to-Haves

- Experience at an AI-native or AI-heavy startup, especially building products involving LLMs, agentic workflows, or human-in-the-loop automation.
- Prior experience working with or managing a distributed/offshore domain-expert or SME network (vs. a purely engineering-only team).
- Experience scaling a product organization from a first hire to a multi-PM team, including hiring and developing PM talent who went on to succeed elsewhere.
- CFA, FRM, or other financial-services credential, or direct prior operating experience inside a PE firm, insurance carrier, or credit fund.
- Track record of operating close to the C-suite (as a direct report to a CEO/President, or representing the entire product function to the board/investors).
- Experience with regulated or compliance-sensitive enterprise software, where auditability and controls are first-class product requirements.
- Network within institutional finance operations, technology, or the AI-in-financial-services ecosystem.

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## About Obin AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Obin AI builds production-grade AI agents that automate complex workflows for regulated financial institutions, enabling them to scale capacity without adding headcount.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Apoorv Saxena (CEO, Co-founder) and Dr. Valliappa "Lak" Lakshmanan (CTO, Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI for financial services (asset management, wealth management, insurance, underwriting, portfolio monitoring, origination, claims)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large financial institutions (top-tier banks, asset managers, insurers)
- **Mission**: "Expand institutional capacity without expanding headcount, enabling financial institutions to deploy capital faster, price risk more precisely, and operate with real-time insight that was previously impossible." [obin.ai/about](https://www.obin.ai/about)

## Products & Services
- **Obin Agentic Platform**: End-to-end platform to reimagine, build, and manage production-grade AI agents inside a client’s own environment. Modular, governed, and composable.
- **Robin Agents**: Regulated AI agents trained on domain expertise to execute complex financial workflows (underwriting, due diligence, IC memo creation, wealth advisor enablement, claims processing) with full traceability and auditability.
- **Obin Financial Agent for Gemini Enterprise**: A pre-built agent available on Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, already in production at a major U.S. life insurer and a private credit fund. [obin.ai/post](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (seed stage)
- **Total Funding**: Seed round led by Motive Partners (amount undisclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Motive Partners (lead), angel advisors Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; partner with Google Cloud (Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Engagements with institutions managing over $1 trillion in assets
  - Deployments move from pilot to production in weeks
  - 18 employees (as of 2025) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)
  - Already live in top‑three global financial institutions

## Competitive Advantages
- **Finance‑first engineering**: Built by alumni of JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Silver Lake, Google – deep domain expertise in both AI and regulated finance.
- **Governance by design**: Every agent output is traceable, auditable, and reversible; role‑based permissions and built‑in fail‑safes satisfy compliance teams.
- **Open architecture**: Transparent, modular design that runs inside the client’s environment – client owns data, models, and IP.
- **Edge‑case mastery**: Agents are trained on the exceptions and nuance that define financial workflows, not just routine 80% tasks.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen deployments with existing clients and expand to the next tier of global financial institutions.
- Continue to build the platform’s compounding learning effect – when one institution solves a workflow, the architecture improves for all.
- Scale the agentic workforce across asset management, wealth management, and insurance verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early‑stage startup (seed) tackling hard, production‑grade AI problems for high‑stakes environments. Emphasis on judgment, governance, and speed.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in the New York office. [obin.ai/careers](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
- **Team**: Advised by Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser; founded by former Google AI and JPMorgan executives.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the engineering culture emphasizes building production systems that financial institutions can trust – a rare combination of AI research and institutional rigor.

## Sources
1. [obin.ai – About page](https://www.obin.ai/about)
2. [obin.ai – Careers page](https://www.obin.ai/careers)
3. [obin.ai – Homepage](https://www.obin.ai/)
4. [obin.ai – Stealth announcement & news](https://obin.ai/post/obin-ai-emerges-from-stealth)
5. [builtin.com – Obin AI profile](https://builtin.com/company/obin-ai)

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