About the opportunity
The Senior Product Manager for Generative AI leads strategy and execution across Shutterstock’s proprietary platforms including: image generator, video generator, and editor. The role spans product vision, roadmap ownership, stakeholder alignment, vendor engagement, and design leadership. It sits at the center of the AI Business Unit, bridging Marketplace, Business Solutions, and Studios, and operates as a generative AI center of excellence for the company.
This is both a highly strategic and hands-on role. The Senior PM must balance roadmap execution, design leadership, market awareness, and stakeholder alignment to ensure Shutterstock’s generative AI products are best-in-class. The ideal candidate is a design-savvy, data-informed, technically fluent PM with a strong vision for AI’s future.
The day to day
1. Product & Roadmap LeadershipEstablish and manage robust product roadmaps for customer-facing generation experience (image video, editing).
Execute roadmap with support from machine learning engineers to deliver services such as model selection, AI safety, automated review and advanced features.
Drive priorities based on business / revenue impact across key business units (Marketplace and Business Solutions.)
Ensure alignment of priorities across key business unit sponsors and and engage in deep understanding of business needs such that roadmap reflects impact and business unit objectives
Partner with Business unit stakeholders to ensure AI strategy is embedded in all aspects of divisional strategies.
Lead GTM readiness, ensuring clear understanding of new capabilities, value propositions, and competitive positioning are clear and compelling.
Evangelize internally to ensure the most current AI capabilities and strategies are considered and developed for Shutterstock’s customers and business objectives
Partner with business units and champion design excellence by working closely with UX teams to deliver creative tools that are intuitive, powerful, and inspiring.
Bring an opinionated design perspective rooted in competitive research and customer needs.
Establish high standards of usability and creative empowerment across generative experiences
Maintain partnerships with major model partners
Collaborate with Business Development to support negotiations and roadmap discussions.
Track industry trends, evaluate competitor products, and directly test new models to inform roadmap decisions
Understand generative AI APIs, architectures, and cloud-based integrations; troubleshoot issues and assess product impact.
Use SQL/Tableau/Snowflake to self-serve analysis, support decision-making, and run experiments validating model capabilities.
Contribute hands-on to model testing and evaluation to inform product direction.
Respond to escalated customer issues and coordinate triage with engineering.
Drive internal communication and adoption of launches across sales, marketing, and support.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Product Management, Computer Science, AI, Business, or related field.
Experience
5+ years in product management, ideally with SaaS, APIs, or AI-powered applications.
Deep understanding of generative AI, including multimodal content generation (image, video, audio).
Track record of shipping customer-facing creative tools and scaling enterprise-ready AI solutions.
Proven success in stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams.
Deep understanding of SaaS, APIs, subscriptions, and monetization.
Ability to balance user needs with divisional revenue goals.
Working knowledge of AI models, APIs, and cloud-based integrations.
Comfort with SQL and data analysis for decision-making.
Hands-on with model testing and evaluation.
Strong design instincts and ability to guide UX teams.
Competitive research mindset to benchmark implementations.
Skilled at aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, design, product, sales, and marketing.
Excellent communicator across technical and executive audiences.
Customer-first orientation with enterprise and end-user empathy.
Passion for generative AI and rapid market evolution.
Ability to connect long-term vision with disciplined execution.
Why Shutterstock:
You have a direct impact on the success of the company. Your team’s work matters and is essential to the evolution of our core business!
Executive leadership cares personally. They prioritize growth and planning your career path with your goals and passions in mind.
Flexibility to work between home and office with everything you need to be successful in both
A generous and competitive benefits package.
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Shutterstock connects diverse artists and creative professionals around the globe with the agencies, brands and people who need their work and services. It’s a place where creators come to be inspired and discover new ways to produce their best work.
Shutterstock enables its employees to drive culture and tap into the world around them to develop the toolbox and solutions that help others share their world views. At Shutterstock, your ideas will be welcomed, your uniqueness will be celebrated, and you will be supported in presenting your view of the world as you experience it. We’re champions of resiliency; quickly learning from our shortcomings in our pursuit of continuous growth.
Diverse teams are critical to our success. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply and we commit to creating and maintaining a culture where employees know they belong and have equal opportunities to succeed.
At Shutterstock, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. The compensation package offered may vary depending on employment experience, skills, and knowledge. You may also be eligible for our generous benefits package including health, wellness and financial benefits. Compensation ranges for candidates in locations outside of the location(s) below may differ based on the cost of labor, market, and additional factors.
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Shutterstock Values
We are one team collectively focused on creating an unrivaled experience for our Customers and Contributors. Our Values represent the mindset of the employee who will thrive at Shutterstock. If you are passionate about what you do, and want to become part of a cutting-edge technology company building industry leading products, please apply.
Shutterstock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Suitably qualified and eligible candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Shutterstock ensures that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [email protected].
The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
