# Akkio - Senior Product Manager

- Generated: 2026-08-31 09:22:52 AM EDT
- Original/canonical posting: https://www.akkio.com/application-form-senior-product-manager
- Posting time: Not disclosed
- Applicants: Not disclosed
- Work model/location: Fully remote; significant customer-facing time in New York City required
- Compensation: $175,000-$225,000 base salary plus substantial equity
- Travel: Significant customer-facing time in New York City; percentage not disclosed
- Positioning track: Technical IC
- Fit outcome: BORDERLINE - 81%

## Fit decision

BORDERLINE, with materials generated at Keith's explicit request. The central mandate is a strong match: AI-native prototyping, ambiguous product discovery, customer-to-requirement translation, LLM product delivery, executive demonstrations, early-stage ownership, and technical credibility. Two material risks prevent a clean PASS: the job requires significant customer-facing time in New York City, which may exceed Keith's standing 5% travel limit, and Keith's product leadership has primarily been exercised through founder and engineering roles rather than a long sequence of formal product-manager titles. Media-agency and AdTech operating experience is preferred rather than mandatory and is not claimed.

## Weighted evidence map

| Requirement | Weight | Evidence score | Evidence |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| Ship impressive software products | 3 | 3 | Brought five commercial SaaS products to market; shipped AssistX within eight months and SuccessKPI's initial product within six months. |
| Use AI daily and build prototypes with agentic coding | 3 | 3 | More than half of AssistX used code generation; direct Codex, agentic coding, MCP, agent, RAG, and working-prototype experience. |
| Own ambiguous, shifting product direction | 3 | 3 | Direct founder ownership of discovery, product direction, architecture, prioritization, and delivery under uncertainty. |
| Technical foundation and engineering credibility | 3 | 3 | Decades of hands-on software architecture, AWS, AI/ML, APIs, cloud platforms, and engineering-team leadership. |
| Customer discovery, demos, and executive presence | 3 | 3 | Product demonstrations plus advisory and technical presentations to 200+ AWS customers and senior stakeholders. |
| Guide cross-functional product development | 3 | 2 | Direct product/engineering translation and team leadership; fewer formal product-manager titles than the recent operating scope implies. |
| AI startup or AdTech product background | 2 | 3 | Direct AI-startup product leadership at Intelligent DataWorks and SuccessKPI; no AdTech product-company claim. |
| Media-agency operations or marketing analytics | 1 | 1 | Transferable analytics and media-customer exposure, but no direct media-agency operating specialization. |
| Significant customer-facing time in NYC | 3 | 0 | Material conflict risk with Keith's standing maximum of 5% travel. |
| Early-stage startup experience | 1 | 3 | Direct founder and venture-backed startup experience. |

Weighted evidence result: 61 of 75 possible points = 81.3%, rounded to 81%. A material travel conflict and down-level/overqualification risk keep the outcome BORDERLINE.

## Direct-match strengths

1. Current hands-on agentic coding and prototype-to-production delivery.
2. Product discovery and customer workflow translation backed by quantified adoption and efficiency outcomes.
3. Deep technical credibility with engineers plus executive demonstration experience.
4. Strong early-stage ownership and comfort making decisions under ambiguity.
5. Production AI, security, governance, evaluation, observability, and enterprise AWS depth.

## Material gaps and caveats

1. Significant NYC time may exceed Keith's 5% travel preference; frequency must be clarified before accepting.
2. Product leadership is direct and substantial but embedded in founder and engineering roles rather than a long formal PM-title progression.
3. Direct media-agency, programmatic-advertising, and AdTech operating experience is not documented.
4. The Senior Product Manager level may create overqualification concerns given recent founder, VP, and Senior Director scope.
5. Applicant count and posting time were not disclosed.

## Full normalized job description

Senior Product Manager
Job type: Full Time | Department: Product Management | Work type: Remote | USD 175,000-225,000 per year
New York, New York, United States

About Akkio
Akkio is the AI infrastructure that powers agentic workflows across media companies. By running on-premises within agency cloud environments and sitting directly on top of data, Akkio enables organizations to productionize AI at enterprise scale, automating campaign workflows while maintaining complete security and governance control. Its infrastructure powers agentic AI and media-planning systems at Havas, Horizon Media, Mediaplus, and LG Ad Solutions.

How we build
Akkio builds with AI aggressively, thoughtfully, and in production. Agentic coding is foundational to engineering and product. Product managers use AI throughout their workflow and build working prototypes with agentic coding tools to make ideas concrete, pressure-test them with customers, and hand engineering something running rather than something written.

The opportunity
The Senior Product Manager will work at the intersection of frontier AI technology and media-agency transformation, collaborating with engineering and design and working directly with customers to understand workflows. The role carries product vision from concept to market adoption, including brainstorming with senior agency leaders, demonstrating capabilities, and guiding development through strategic insight and hands-on execution. Product direction is often partially defined and shifts with customer learning; the role requires ownership, judgment, and comfort operating without certainty.

What you'll do
- Discover common workflows and jobs-to-be-done within media agencies and identify transformational AI opportunities.
- Use agentic coding tools to turn ideas into working demos and validate direction with customers and engineering.
- Convert customer insights into clear product requirements and running prototypes.
- Set direction and guide cross-functional teams through product creation, course-correcting as solutions develop.
- Present and demo solutions to senior agency leaders, gather feedback, and build relationships that inform strategy.
- Make decisive product calls and earn credibility with engineers and C-level stakeholders.

Who you are
- Track record of shipping impressive software products in roles of increasing responsibility.
- Deeply integrated AI into daily research, analysis, drafting, and prototyping; able to build working demos with agentic coding tools without waiting for an engineer.
- Repeatedly takes ownership of loosely defined or shifting priorities and delivers products using judgment.
- CS, Engineering, or Design background with credibility to lead software engineers and designers.
- Experience in AI startups or AdTech product companies; knowledge of AI technology or media-agency operations strongly preferred.
- Strong product instinct and executive presence with senior leaders.
- Willing to spend significant time in New York City working directly with customers.

Bonus points
- Public artifacts of an AI-native workflow, such as agentic prototypes, MCP servers, or writing.
- Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered products, agent experiences, evals, or AI-native workflow tools.
- Media-agency, programmatic-advertising, or marketing-analytics experience.
- Early-stage startup experience.

Additional information
- Akkio is fully remote, but significant customer-facing time in New York City is required.
- Compensation is $175,000-$225,000 depending on experience, plus substantial equity.
- Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), and generous PTO.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.


## Artifact metadata

- Resume: https://bit.ly/4xobP6C
- Cover letter: https://bit.ly/4cnNA02
- Direct resume: https://files.keithsteward.com/Akkio/Keith_Steward_Senior_Product_Manager_Akkio_Resume.pdf
- Direct cover letter: https://files.keithsteward.com/Akkio/Keith_Steward_Senior_Product_Manager_Akkio_Cover_Letter.pdf
- Archived JD capture: https://files.keithsteward.com/Akkio/Keith_Steward_Senior_Product_Manager_Akkio_JD_capture.md
- Validation: 2-page resume (961 words); 1-page cover letter (246 words); profile 82 words; 40 supported technologies; PDF geometry, annotations, bounds, text extraction, and public links verified.
- Google Drive used: No