--- title: 'Product Manager, AI Strategy at Obin AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-ai-strategy-obin-ai-new-york-2rmkszte2jns' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Product Manager, AI Strategy at Obin AI - **Company:** Obin AI - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $150k–$190k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-02-06 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/obin-ai/am9icG9zdDpFQsekRnRhhkdUNvQ5OOxa ## Job description About the Role: We're looking for a Forward Deployed Product Manager to join our team as one of our earliest hires. You’ll work directly with customers—primarily in the finance sector—to deeply understand their workflows, uncover impactful AI use cases, and translate those into product requirements for our engineering team. You won’t be expected to code, but you’ll need a solid grasp of technical systems and data flows. You’ll partner with full-stack engineers to build secure, scalable integrations with financial systems and deliver solutions that create real business value. This is a hybrid, high-ownership role based in New York, with regular in-office collaboration. What You’ll Do: ●       Own customer success: Serve as the primary product interface to our customers, translating their needs into structured product workstreams. ●       Drive discovery and delivery: Work across customer engagements to gather requirements, define MVPs, and guide solution implementation. ●       Bridge business and engineering: Translate customer workflows into technical integration needs and product specs for engineers. ●       Deploy for impact: Participate in onsite/hands-on deployments to ensure successful onboarding and usage of our product. ●       Deliver quickly: Collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced startup environment to prioritize and launch product features quickly and iteratively. Expectations: ●       Finance-savvy: You understand financial systems and data flows or have worked in a finance-adjacent role (e.g., fintech, investment banking, or management consulting). ●       Customer-obsessed: You’re comfortable interfacing with clients, unblocking deployments, and delivering value. ●       Technically fluent: While you won't be coding, but we expect you to build prototypes (using AI coding tools) ●       Structured thinker: You can distill ambiguity into clear problem statements and action plans. ●       Builder mindset: You thrive in zero-to-one environments and are comfortable wearing multiple hats. Experience: ●       3–6 years of experience in Product, strategy, consulting, or similar roles in Financial services ●       Strong exposure to technical concepts, ideally working closely with full-stack or infrastructure engineers ●       Background in finance, fintech, or management consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or investment banking are strong pluses) - Experience and/or Educational background from Top institutions in Finance/Investment Management/Private Equity and similar areas is highly preferred. ## 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. 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