Staff Product Manager, Robinhood
Cortex
$191-225k
+ Equity-focused compensation structure + Bonus opportunities
3+ days a week in office
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
Open for applications
Commission-free stock trading & investing app
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$191-225k
+ Equity-focused compensation structure + Bonus opportunities
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize finance for all.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree, Master's, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of consumer-facing product management, with 3+ years on AI/ML-powered products
- AI Architecture & Technical Strategy — Deep fluency in LLM architectures, agentic systems, and retrieval-augmented generation; able to hold strong, informed opinions on build-vs-buy decisions, model selection, and system design alongside engineering leaders
- Industry Pace-Setting — Track record of translating rapid advances in AI research and tooling into product roadmap decisions, ensuring the product stays at or ahead of the frontier rather than reacting to it
- Evaluation & Continuous Improvement — Experience building and evolving evaluation frameworks that measure AI quality, accuracy, and safety at scale; able to establish systematic feedback loops and quality bars that enable the team to ship with confidence and improve continuously
- Consumer-Obsessed AI Product Craft — Ability to identify high-impact, user-facing improvements across a full AI product experience and ship them iteratively, turning a complex AI system into an intuitive financial companion customers trust and rely on daily
- Strong sense of urgency, high ownership, and comfort operating in ambiguity across a fast-moving technical and regulatory landscape
- Experience shipping AI products in financial services or other regulated industries
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation and observability tooling
- Experience with agentic AI systems in production
- Background in financial advice, portfolio management, or wealth-tech products
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Staff Product Manager to own and drive Cortex forward
- You'll lead the evolution from a powerful research assistant to an AI that can reason, plan, and act on behalf of customers — across investing, spending, saving, and beyond
- This role demands equal parts technical depth and consumer intuition: you'll shape the AI architecture alongside engineering leaders while obsessing over the experiences that make customers trust and rely on Cortex every day
- At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community
- Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams
- Own the Cortex product roadmap end-to-end — from improving the core conversational experience today to defining the path toward AI-powered financial planning and advice
- Drive the technical direction alongside engineering leads — making high-conviction decisions on AI architecture, model strategy, and system design that keep Cortex at the frontier of what's possible
- Build and evolve evaluation frameworks at scale — establish the automated quality, accuracy, and safety measurement systems that let the team ship with confidence and improve continuously
- Ship consumer experiences that drive adoption and retention — find the moments where AI creates real value in customers' financial lives and deliver them with craft and speed
- Navigate the regulatory landscape — partner with Legal & Compliance to responsibly expand what Cortex can do, from neutral research toward personalized financial guidance
- Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, design, data science, compliance, and operations — turning ambiguity into shipped product
Our take
For years, traditional brokers ruled the share trading realm, charging hefty fees that locked out everyday investors. Robinhood emerged as a disruptor, offering commission-free trading and opening the door to a new generation. Since then, expectations have continued to evolve, with investors looking not just to lower costs, but for simpler tools, clearer information, and guidance that makes the market easier to understand.
Robinhood was built to meet those changing expectations, designed from the start as a mobile-first platform that makes investor more accessible and less intimidating for people at every stage of their financial journey. Through its app, users can trade stocks and other financial instruments while benefiting from a clean interface and built-in educational support, helping them move from curiosity to confidence without unnecessary complexity.
Recently, Robinhood has strenghtned its impact too, particularly in the UK. With the launch of AI-powered Digests within its Robinhood Cortex assistant that helps users understand what's driving stock movements in plain English, while upcoming options trading and expanded educational resources add flexibility and depth. Together, these steps position Robinhood as a platform evolving alongside its users, blending technology and education to stay ahead in an ever-changing investment landscape.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2021
$2.4bn
CONVERTIBLE
Jan 2021
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $5.6bn
Company HQ
Downtown Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Vlad Tenev
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman)Studied Mathematics at Stanford University, where they met Baiju. Dropped out of a PhD to start Robinhood. Alongside Robinhood, Vlad is also the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Harmonic.
Baiju B.
(Co-Founder)Studied Mathematics and Physics at Stanford University, where they met their Vlad and co-founded Robinhood in 2012. Baiju is also the Founder and CEO of Aetherflux.
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