Director of Product, AI Product Strategy

At Forge (NYSE: FRGE), we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, humble, and accountable. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to planet-saving, plant-based nutrition, and more. 

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. 

Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect. 

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way. 

The Role:

Forge Global, a pioneer in delivering data intelligence solutions for private markets, is searching for a new Director of AI Product strategy. We're seeking an experienced professional with a background in building & growing AI powered financial market data products and solutions with a drive to execute. This role is pivotal in advancing our strategic mission of fostering transparency in private markets, expanding our product offerings and supporting the creation of an industry leading trading marketplace. This role will sit at the intersection of artificial intelligence technology, product development, and business strategy to guide the vision, strategy and execution of AI-driven products ensuring we meet the market’s needs.

Location: This will be a hybrid role where you’ll be onsite 2-3 days a week in our San Francisco or New York office. 

Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI and data-centric products, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and customer needs
• Deliver a roadmap that delivers new data insights leveraging AI to drive product enhancements, new data content and analytics
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for AI-powered data products, from ideation and research through development, deployment, and post-launch analysis
• Use a data-driven approach to product discovery, analyzing market trends, customer feedback, competitor analysis and data insights to identify new opportunities and drive product enhancements
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics for products, adoption by customers and Cost of goods
• Partner closely with data research, operations, engineering, design, and business teams for product ideation, development, testing, and iteration based on client feedback, company vision, and strategic objectives
• Collaborate with legal, compliance, and data governance teams to maintain data quality, integrity, security, and compliance with governance of AI
• Focus on personalization by leveraging machine learning models to deliver tailored insights that align with each client’s investment profile
• Develop strategies to drive user adoption of AI products. This may involve conducting user testing and refining features based on feedback
• Focus on aligning product outcomes with business objectives and ensure they meet both market and user demands

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management experience in a client-facing role, most of it attributed to building & launching financial data products such as pricing data, insights, data-driven investment signals
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, data architecture, and data science methodologies; experience with big data platforms, machine learning frameworks, and cloud technologies is highly desirable
• In-depth understanding of market data and the investment lifecycle across diverse financial asset classes
• Demonstrated experience in conceptualizing and developing financial data-oriented products using AI
• Superior communication skills, the ability to drive cross-functional delivery and interact effectively with senior leadership and clients.
• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Computer Science, Finance, Business Administration, or Economics
• A strong analytical mindset, problem solving skills and ability to think outside the box
• Prior experience with private or public market-related data and investment management experience is highly desirable

Nice to have:

• A strong understanding of financial concepts, such as valuation techniques, corporate action adjustments, market structure, and portfolio construction
• An unyielding passion for delivering solutions that create a significant impact on customer outcomes and business growth
• Technology fluency in data platforms and solid experience working closely with data researchers, operations to develop products & tools
• Demonstrated experience with Agile development, and modern product management practices, approaches and tools across engineering and design
• Strong project management skills with a proven ability to drive complex initiatives to completion on time and within scope

For residents of San Francisco/Bay Area, CA or New York, NY the annual salary range for this role is $250,000 - $280,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, annual bonus, performance and other factors.

Forge implements a mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, which applies to all employees. All employees covered by this policy are required to be fully vaccinated as a term and condition of employment at Forge. Employees are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after completing primary vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine, with, if applicable, at least the minimum recommended interval between doses. Employees must provide truthful and accurate information about their COVID-19 vaccination status, and, if applicable, their testing results as of the first date of their employment. 

Employees may request an exception from this mandatory vaccination policy if the vaccine is medically contraindicated for them or medical necessity requires a delay in vaccination. Employees also may be legally entitled to a reasonable accommodation if they cannot be vaccinated because of a disability, or if the provisions in this policy for vaccination conflict with a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance. All such requests will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.