Senior Product Manager, Shutterstock
Data Licensing & AI Services
$170-190k
+ Eligible for annual incentives
Office located in New York City, NY
Royalty-free media library
Open for applications
Royalty-free media library
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$170-190k
+ Eligible for annual incentives
Office located in New York City, NY
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help creative professionals from all backgrounds and businesses of all sizes produce their best work with incredible content and innovative tools, all on one platform.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a design-savvy, data-informed, technically fluent Senior Product Manager with a strong vision for customers’ model training workflows and needs
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Product Management, Computer Science, AI, Business, or related field
- 5+ years in product management, ideally with SaaS, APIs, or AI-powered applications
- Track record of shipping B2B platform-based products
- Proven success in stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams
- Experience managing products dealing with hyperscale data ingestion and processing (petabyte-scale multimedia datasets)
- Experience managing products that integrate with customer/partner ML training pipelines
- Deep understanding of data storage, ingress / egress, APIs, and metadata discovery / search
- Ability to balance customer needs with revenue goals
- Strong grasp of data governance for model training: provenance, rights/consent, auditability, retention, and policy enforcement
- Working knowledge of AI models, APIs, and cloud-based integrations
- Fluency in data/metrics to drive product decisions
- Deep familiarity with customer ML workflows (multimodal/3D), including how teams consume datasets, human feedback, and evaluation results. '
- 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
What the job involves
- Shutterstock is building the engine to power the next generation of Generative AI through licensed data and bespoke training support services
- We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of our Licensed Data & Training Services Platform
- This platform will be the backbone of our AI Data Licensing & Services business: a storage, curation, and orchestration layer that helps customers and partners manage data licensing and services like content production, annotation, expert feedback, and model evaluation
- This is both a highly strategic and hands-on role
- The Senior Product Manager must balance roadmap execution, design leadership, market awareness, and stakeholder alignment to ensure Shutterstock successfully builds it's new Licensed Data & Training Services Platform
- Capture requirements, understand customer needs and scope Shutterstock’s new Licensed Data & Training Services Platform
- At every relevant point thoughtfully consider and analyze component features and determine if partnering or building represents the best path forward for the business
- Execute roadmap and successfully launch the Licensed Data & Training Services Platform in partnership with core engineering and the ML team
- Understand and execute a logical phased approach that balances speed-to-market with core needs and also appropriately tiers our approach across internal teams and customer needs
- Ensure alignment of priorities across key business unit sponsors and engage in deep understanding of business needs such that roadmap reflects impact and business objectives
- Partner closely with all business unit stakeholders to ensure the platform strategy is well understood, removing any friction from achieving build and launch milestones and timelines
- Act as a bridge between engineering and the rest of the team, always ensuring clear understanding of new capabilities, timelines, value propositions, and competitive positioning
- Identify and maintain partnerships with key technical and other partners to ensure seamless and rapid integration as defined and appropriate
- Track industry trends, evaluate competitor products, and research third-party vendor capabilities to inform roadmap decisions
- Facilitate onboarding and related documentation for content suppliers including reporting and other metrics that drive these key strategic partnerships
- Understand the AI model training lifecycle and the natural Shutterstock touchpoints with customers to deliver value and relationship expansion
- Define and document benchmarks for platform performance and continually enhance and improve capabilities to ensure the business is maximizing its opportunity
Our take
Shutterstock is a global leader in licensed images, videos, and music, serving creative professionals like designers, filmmakers, and marketers. Content creators upload their work, which is then used by businesses and media organizations in various projects. It's a two-sided marketplace that fuels creativity worldwide.
Shutterstock offers a variety of plans for individuals, teams, and enterprise customers as well as creative editing and collaboration capabilities. Their aim is to build sophisticated tools to help the world experience images and videos in a more beautiful way - they believe that the harmonious union of design and technology can influence global communication.
Shuttershock's brand portfolio includes Bigstock, Offset, PremiumBeat, Rex Features, and Shutterstock Customer, adding hundreds of thousands of images weekly. It has also expanded into generative AI, fairly licensing artists' work for AI-generated content. And in 2026, the company announced a huge proposed merger of equals with Getty Images, receiving US regulatory clearance and positioning the combined company for greater scale, financial strength, and long-term innovation.
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Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexibility: We offer a hybrid model that’s centered around flexibility and enabling collaboration, innovation, and accountability—no matter where we are.
- Connection: Whether online or on site, we make sure there are plenty of ways to connect and have fun.
- Recognition: We never miss an opportunity to celebrate our achievements and commend great work through our global recognition program.
- Empowerment: We offer generous and competitive compensation packages, PTO, wellness initiatives, on-and-off working hours, tuition reimbursement, and an employee referral bonus.
- Growth: Our SkillUP Program lets you take ownership of your personal development through virtual learning offerings.
- Belonging: Our goal is to build a workforce that’s representative of the diverse global community we serve, and where all employees can come to work as their authentic selves.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Jon Oringer
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Previously Board Member at Partnership for New York City for 6 years and Founder, CEO at SurfSecret Software for 5 years.
Paul Hennessy
(CEO)Paul previously held CEO roles at Vroom.com and Priceline.com. He was also the CMO at Booking.com and the Chief Distribution Officer/SVP of Online Marketing at Priceline.com
Rik Powell
(CFO)Rik joined Shutterstock in 2024 as a Senior VP of Finance and Investor Relations, moving into the role of CFO later that same year. Prior to this, he was a Senior VP of Finance and Investor Relations at Shake Shack. He also spent over 16 years at Getty Images, joining as a Director before holding various roles and becoming CFO.
Sara Birmingham
(Chief Human Resource Officer)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2020, Sara was a HR Advisor at Out East. She was also the founder of Jump HR Consulting where she served as the CEO for just over 1 year. Prior to this, she spent 18 years at Thomson Reuters in various HR roles.
John Lapham
(General Counsel)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2021, John was part of the General Counsel and SVP Government Affairs at Rover.com. He was also on the General Counsel and an SVP of Digital Media, Technology and eCommerce sectors at Getty Images for nearly 15 years.
Aimee Egan
(Chief Enterprise Officer)Prior to joining Shutterstock in 2023, Aimee was the CCO at ACA Group. She also spent over 11 years at Thomson Reuters in various roles, including VP of Growth and Market Development and GM of Small/Mid Market Corporations.
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