AI-First Product Manager (Ops Transformation)

About Kompato AI

We're transforming the debt collection industry with AI-powered automation that delivers compliant, empathetic, and revenue-driving customer experiences. Our mission is to help agencies, lenders, and financial institutions reimagine collections by blending human-level conversation with the efficiency of AI. We're a fast-growing fintech startup building the operating backbone for modern collections-whether inbound, outbound, or digital self-service.

If you're energized by stripping down messy, manual processes and rebuilding them as AI-native workflows, and if you can translate operational pain into automation that sticks, this role might be for you.

How you will make an impact in this role

We are looking for our first AI-First Product Manager (Ops Transformation) - a builder who fuses product management rigor with systems-level AI thinking.

Your mandate: take our debt collection operator's playbook, strip it to the studs, and redesign it for an AI-native organization. That means immersing yourself in daily ops, identifying compliance-heavy bottlenecks, and rethinking how they should work in an AI-first world. You'll own the journey from raw operator pain → prototype automation → adoption and scaling.

This is a role for someone equally comfortable shadowing frontline staff, drafting RICE + risk-scored automation priorities, and guiding MVP engineering builds (or prototyping in Cursor/Claude code yourself).

In short: you'll turn ambiguity into working automations and repeatable playbooks that compound value across departments.

Responsibilities

Discovery & Translation

• Immerse in daily collections ops to map SOPs and surface pain points.
• Apply Jobs-to-Be-Done and anthropological methods to reframe operator needs.
• Identify and rank-order automation opportunities by reach, impac