Head of Product

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Austin, TX, USA
Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Fintech • Information Technology • Financial Services • App development
We're in the business of what ought to be.
The Role
Founding Head of Product responsible for defining and shipping an AI-powered agentic platform across insurance and BPO operations. The role owns the transformation roadmap, embeds with operating teams to identify high-impact workflow improvements, and delivers products that improve margins and unit economics. Responsibilities also include evaluating acquisition targets, shaping platform strategy, prototyping AI solutions, and deploying systems into live enterprise environments.
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WHO WE ARE
We are PEAK6, a leading investment firm, using technology to find a better way of doing things. The company's first tech-based solution was developed in 1997 to optimize options trading, and over the past two decades, the same formula has been used across a range of industries, asset classes, and business stages to consistently deliver superior results. Today, PEAK6 seeks transformational opportunities to provide capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs and forward-thinking businesses. PEAK6's core brands include PEAK6 Capital Management, PEAK6 Strategic Capital, Apex Fintech Solutions, FOCUS, We Insure, Evil Geniuses, Poker Power, Zogo, and Bruce Markets.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
ABOUT THIS ROLE
PEAK6 AI Strategies is the AI investment and company-creation arm of PEAK6.
We're building what the next generation of services companies looks like: real businesses, with real customers and real revenue, re-founded around AI. Backed by PEAK6's P6 AI Strategies, we acquire and operate companies in the insurance services and BPO space - then rebuild their core workflows with agents, automation, and software until the economics look like a technology company, not a services firm.
You'd be the founding Head of Product: the technologist-operator who decides what we build, ships it into live operations, and owns the transformation roadmap across the platform. You're not selling AI to an enterprise and hoping they adopt it. You own the enterprise.
This team is onsite and based out of our Austin HQ. For this role, we are open to remote with regular travel to our operating offices.
What you'll do:
Own the product. Define and ship the agentic platform that runs underwriting support, claims, policy servicing, and back-office workflows across our operating companies. You set the roadmap.
Deploy forward. Spend real time inside the operating businesses - sitting with claims processors and ops managers, mapping workflows, finding the 20% of the work that's 80% of the cost. Then build against it.
Move the P&L. Your success metric isn't feature adoption or NPS - it's margin. Every launch should show up in unit economics within a quarter. You'll have a direct line from "we shipped this" to "the business makes more money."
Shape the thesis. As we evaluate acquisitions, you're in the room - assessing which businesses' workflows are most transformable, and what the platform needs to absorb the next one faster than the last.
YOUR EXPERIENCE
You've shipped AI systems into real enterprises - as a PM or FDE at an applied-AI company, an agent platform, or a top consumer/fintech product org that taught you craft and speed. Titles matter less than how you ship.
You have genuine technical depth: you prototype your own ideas, you can read the code, and you have strong intuitions about what current models can and can't reliably do in production.
You're energized (not deterred) by unglamorous, high-stakes domains. The alpha is precisely where other product people won't go.
You want ownership, not influence. You've been great at navigating big-company product orgs and you're done navigating.
You move fast, hold a high bar, and want to work directly with people who do the same.
WHAT WE OFFER
Founder economics without the fundraising. Meaningful equity in the platform itself - the vehicle doing the acquiring, not a single portfolio company - plus competitive cash. Permanent capital means no runway anxiety and no demo-day theater.
A solved distribution problem. Day one, your product ships to thousands of real users processing real volume. No pilots, no procurement, no champions who churn.
A true zero-to-one, de-risked. Blank-page product surface, existing revenue underneath it.
Leverage. PEAK6's operating infrastructure - capital markets, M&A, recruiting, legal, an enterprise-wide AI transformation program - behind you from day one.
PEAK6 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other protected characteristic. Our hiring practices ensure that all qualified applicants receive fair consideration without regard to these characteristics.
PEAK6 is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace for all candidates, including those with disabilities. We are dedicated to ensuring equal employment opportunities and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please contact our HR department at [email protected]. We will work with you to provide the necessary accommodations to ensure your full participation in our hiring process.
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Skills Required

  • Experience shipping AI systems into real enterprise environments
  • Experience as a product manager or forward-deployed engineer at an applied AI company, agent platform, or leading consumer or fintech product organization
  • Strong technical depth, including prototyping, code reading, and understanding production model capabilities and limitations
  • Ability to work directly within operational businesses and transform high-stakes workflows
  • Ability to own product strategy, roadmap, delivery, and business outcomes
  • Ability to work onsite in Austin or remotely with regular travel to operating offices

What the Team is Saying

PEAK6 Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision coverage are paired with mental‑health resources (EAP, stigma‑free support) and a Calm app subscription in current materials. This combination points to strong core health support.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) company match is emphasized as “robust,” with some roles also noting HSA contribution matching. Regional postings (e.g., UK) add private medical cover and pension matching up to stated levels, underscoring solid retirement support.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave and adoption assistance are highlighted across career pages and postings. Mother’s rooms cited on public profiles further reflect family‑friendly infrastructure.

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
1,900 Employees
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

PEAK6 is not your typical investment firm. Here, we build and invest in businesses that span from finance and insurance to esports and education — and we're always seeking new opportunities. We're not defined by one industry or market. We activate "what is" into "what ought to be" through world-class technology, operational excellence, and purposeful design. We're in the business of doing, creating, and building the world with innovation and democratization in mind. Our team of opportunistic thinkers are generating new ideas while constantly improving, refining, and activating past ones. At PEAK6, it's not just our investments that make use great, but our people that make us valuable.

Why Work With Us

Ordinary doesn't apply here. We look for people who aren’t afraid to take chances, who bet on themselves and do it with confidence. People that dream up big ideas and ways to execute them. Epic storytellers, nimble problem solvers, imaginative entrepreneurs, and change-makers are all welcome.

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