Senior Product Manager, AI (B2C exp in fintech, retail investing, financial media, or other consumer financial products)

Company Description VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. Job Description We’re looking for a driven and curious Senior Product Manager to help build a new generation of AI- powered equity research products for individual investors. This role sits at the intersection of consumer SaaS, equity research, and AI. You will work with a high- caliber team that brings together top-tier engineering and buy-side talent, including analysts with prior experience at firms such as Millennium, Point72, and KKR. We believe that everybody should be an investor and our mission is to help everyday people succeed in the stock market. The legacy stock-picking and financial research services are a multibillion-dollar business but are not living up to expectations anymore. We are building a market-leading product for the next generation of investors. In this role you will help shape core product experiences for our AI equity research platform, with a focus on features that help retail investors find, understand, and evaluate investment opportunities such as research reports, stock picks and discover screens. It is a great fit for someone who wants to stay close to users, product details, and execution. You do not need to be an equity analyst, but you should be an individual investor and understand how retail investors think and how public equities are researched. You will help identify the highest-value customer problems, define clear product requirements, validate product assumptions, and partner with engineers and analysts to ship experiences that make institutional-quality research accessible and actionable for a large retail investor audience. The team is part of a new organization, which means you will have meaningful influence over how products are shaped and how our product culture develops. We believe in strong customer discovery (JTBD), empowered product teams, shipping useful products quickly, and iterating based on real behavior. For the right person, this is an opportunity to take on significant ownership early and grow quickly as the platform and team scale. What You’ll Do:  Own and evolve core product experiences for stock research and discovery features  Conduct product discovery (interviews) with retail investors to understand how they identify ideas, evaluate stocks, build conviction, and make investment decisions  Translate customer needs and market insights into clear product opportunities, requirements, and execution plans  Play an integral role in defining how AI-generated insights are presented so that users can understand the reasoning, evidence and assumptions behind recommendations  Define success metrics, analyze user behavior, run experiments, synthesize feedback, and iterate quickly based on what users actually do  Communicate product strategy, tradeoffs, decisions, and progress clearly across Product, Design, Engineering, Equity Research and senior leadership Qualifications Requirements: Min of 5+ years of product management experience building and scaling consumer (B2C) subscription products, in fintech, retail investing, financial media, or other consumer financial products. Experience owning paid subscription growth, engagement, or retention is strongly preferred. Proven ability to take features and products from discovery through launch, including customer interviews, product requirements, execution, and post-launch measurement. Strong understanding of public equity markets and the retail investor experience. You understand how individual investors research companies, evaluate investment opportunities, build portfolios, and use financial news, data, and AI-powered tools to inform investment decisions. Personal investing experience is a plus. Ability to combine customer insights and your own product judgment to deliver delightful products. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate user problems, product rationale, requirements, tradeoffs, and launch plans. High agency, intellectual curiosity, and comfortable operating in an ambiguous environment. Additional Information As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected]. VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc. VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means. Business Segment: CNBC Compensation: USD 125000 - USD 170000 - yearly