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Accordion · 5 hours ago

Senior AI Product Manager

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$170K/yr - $225K/yr

10+ years exp

Accordion is a financial consulting firm focused on leveraging data, technology, and AI to drive value for private equity clients. The Senior AI Product Manager will be responsible for building and scaling AI-enabled software products, owning the product vision, and collaborating with engineering and delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes.

AccountingConsultingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Own AI product vision & roadmap

Define the AI vision per solution, including user problems, workflows, success metrics, and a prioritized product roadmap

Identify and validate high-value use cases (copilots, agentic automation, predictive insights), translating them into product bets with KPIs

Scan the market for GenAI/LLM tools and vendors; run structured evaluations and POCs

Craft build/buy/partner recommendations and negotiate technical requirements and integration plans

Drive end-to-end product development with engineering and design: discovery → PRD → architecture tradeoffs → build → launch → iterate

Translate client and consultant needs into clear requirements, APIs, UX flows, and release plans

Ensure product quality in production across reliability, latency, accuracy, safety, and cost

Lead delivery of real user-facing GenAI capabilities (RAG, agentic workflows, tool/function calling, evaluation harnesses, observability)

Establish measurement frameworks for model and system performance over time

Partner with governance and security leaders to implement guardrails for safety, privacy, compliance (PII/PHI), bias testing, and auditability

Ensure 'human-in-the-loop' design where required

Build business cases, pricing/packaging, adoption plans, and ROI tracking for new AI products

Support pre-sales, demos, and client executive briefings; drive post-launch adoption and value capture

Lead high-stakes client sessions (CFOs, PE partners, operator teams) to shape AI product direction

Confidently guide tradeoffs, push back when needed, and represent Accordion as the AI product leader

Travel to client sites as needed

Qualification

AI product managementGenAI experienceSaaS product developmentProduct discoveryAgile deliveryClient leadershipTechnical fluencyProduct/Agile credentialsCFO/finance solutions

Required

10+ years in product leadership or product ownership, including 5+ years building AI-enabled software products in SaaS/enterprise/fintech or equivalent environments

Proven record taking AI features from concept to prototype to production and scaled adoption, with clear KPIs and measurable ROI

Strong engineering fluency from prior software/AI engineering experience or deeply technical product work; able to drive architecture tradeoffs and execution with senior engineers

Production GenAI experience delivering LLM/RAG/agentic systems embedded in real workflows, including evaluation, observability, safety guardrails, and cost/latency optimization

Excellent product craft: customer discovery, PRDs, roadmap prioritization, metrics (activation, retention, quality, latency, cost-to-serve), and agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)

Executive presence and client leadership: confident guiding senior stakeholders, facilitating tough tradeoffs, and pushing back when needed across practices and geographies