Senior PM – GenAI at Envato | AI Product Career Growth in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
A High-Signal Role at the AI-Creative Intersection
This Senior PM role sits at a genuinely rare intersection: a global creative marketplace (Envato serves millions of professionals) now owned by Shutterstock, doubling down on generative AI. Post-acquisition growth phases like this often create outsized career acceleration for PMs who can demonstrate impact quickly.
Skills You'll Build
- GenAI product strategy — one of the most in-demand PM skill sets in 2024–2025
- Model evaluation & AI prototyping — hands-on experience that differentiates you from PMs who only manage AI at a surface level
- Creative tools domain expertise — valuable at companies like Adobe, Canva, Figma, and any creative-tech startup
- Stakeholder alignment in cross-functional teams — always a core PM signal
Compensation & Market Benchmarks
No salary is disclosed, which is a minor red flag for transparency. Senior PM roles in AI at Australian tech companies typically range AUD 150,000–200,000 base. Given Shutterstock's ownership and the GenAI specialisation, candidates should negotiate toward the upper end and probe for equity or bonus structures.
Culture & Growth Signals
Envato has a strong culture reputation in the Australian tech scene. The explicit acknowledgment of ambiguity and autonomous work signals a mature product culture. However, post-acquisition environments can shift rapidly — worth asking in interviews how the Shutterstock integration has affected product roadmap autonomy.
Green Flag: Real investment in GenAI with a clear customer-first framing, not just AI-washing.
Build the next generation of creative tools with AI
Generative AI is changing how creative work gets made. At Envato, we're building for that shift.
We help millions of creative professionals find the assets and tools they need to create. Now we're bringing generative AI deeper into that experience, helping customers generate, edit and customise content as part of their everyday workflows.
We're looking for a Senior Product Manager – GenAI to help turn that opportunity into products creative professionals genuinely want to use.
This is a role for someone who is already deep in the world of GenAI. You're using the tools, exploring new models and paying attention to what is changing. You're curious about what the technology can do, but just as interested in whether it solves a real customer problem.
What You'll Do
You'll work within Envato's broader GenAI strategy, owning a defined product area and taking initiatives from discovery through to launch and iteration.
- Understand customer problems, explore product opportunities and identify where generative AI can meaningfully improve creative workflows.
- Use customer research, product data, experimentation and hands-on GenAI knowledge to decide what to build, test, improve or stop.
- Experiment with emerging models, use AI to explore concepts and prototype ideas, and build practical understanding of model capabilities and limitations.
- Work closely with Design and Engineering to turn the strongest ideas into high-quality experiences, balancing creative quality, model performance, reliability, scale and cost.
- Define success metrics, monitor how customers use what's built, and use evidence to drive continuous improvement post-launch.
What We're Looking For
- An experienced Product Manager who has owned complex, customer-facing product initiatives from discovery through launch and iteration — ideally in SaaS, technology or AI.
- Strong practical fluency in generative AI and generative media; comfortable working closely with technical teams and using AI to prototype and test ideas.
- Genuine interest in creative people and how creative work actually happens — understanding the difference between an impressive demo and a truly useful professional tool. Experience with creative products or tools is particularly valuable.
- Ability to synthesise customer, technical and commercial information into clear priorities and product decisions.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, making trade-offs and working autonomously.
- Strong communication skills; able to build alignment and bring cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Engineering) along with you.
Why Envato
There aren't many roles where you get to work at the intersection of creative professionals, generative AI and a global product already used at scale. We're not interested in adding AI just because we can — we want to work out where it genuinely makes creative work better. There is still a lot to figure out. That's the interesting part.
Life at Envato
We're a purpose-driven company with a long history of flexible, inclusive ways of working. Our values — Customer First, Build our Future, Make it Happen and Embrace Diversity — guide everything we do.
Our benefits include:
- Home office budget
- Team connection & learning budgets
- Wellbeing and study support
- Volunteer leave
- Generous paid parental leave
- Access to all Envato products
- Option to work from another remote location for up to 3 months per year
You can read more about us on our blog, including news of our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.
A Few Things Before You Apply
We embrace diversity at Envato and want to ensure that everyone who applies has an inclusive experience. Hiring for us isn't a tick-box exercise — we want to know what you're passionate about, what your lived experiences are and what you think you can add to the team.
We're also big believers in using AI, and that includes how we hire. We may use AI tools to help support our recruitment process, but they don't replace human judgement. Our people always make the final hiring decisions.
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