Full-Time

Staff Technical Product Manager

Aktos

Aktos

1-10 employees

Debt-collection software for agencies on subscription

Compensation Overview

$140k - $150k/yr

+ Equity

Remote in USA

Remote

Remote-first company; candidates may work from anywhere in the United States.

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Product (1)

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Requirements
  • Shipped software; understands databases and SaaS architecture; can talk code (or even write it).
  • Bring technical intuition to product design. Understand how databases, APIs, and frontends work together. Know what’s easy, what’s hard, and what’s worth it.
  • Ability to understand relational data models, schemas, and entity relationships.
  • Demonstrated success in translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills — able to speak the language of executives, customers, and engineers.
Responsibilities
  • Map and document complex collector and admin workflows end-to-end.
  • Partner with customers, operations, and onboarding teams to uncover detailed business requirements.
  • Identify edge cases, regulatory considerations, and data dependencies.
  • Translate business requirements into clear, technical product specs consumable by engineering.
  • Work with engineers to design robust data models.
  • Ensure data integrity across integrations with third-party systems.
  • Lead roadmap planning for third-party integrations (Skip Tracing, Letter Vendors, Payment Portals, ERP, etc.).
  • Define requirements for API-based integrations, error handling, and sync frequency.
  • Drive consistency across integration frameworks and reusability of components.
  • Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and engineers, ensuring clarity of requirements and tradeoff decisions.
  • Collaborate and prototype workflow UIs that map to underlying technical complexity.
  • Own feature lifecycle from ideation through launch and iteration.
  • Write detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and data flow documentation.
  • Partner with engineers to validate data flows and integration edge cases.
Desired Qualifications
  • Bring technical intuition to product design. Understand how databases, APIs, and frontends work together. Know what’s easy, what’s hard, and what’s worth it.
  • Ability to understand relational data models, schemas, and entity relationships.
  • Demonstrated success in translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills — able to speak the language of executives, customers, and engineers.

Aktos offers a cloud-based debt collection software platform for American debt collection agencies. It provides a subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that replaces older systems with a modern, user-friendly interface to manage the entire recovery workflow. The product helps agencies automate and streamline tasks like case management, communications, and reporting, enabling faster and more efficient collections. Unlike legacy tools, Aktos focuses on a clean user experience and practical features designed for daily agency use, and it scales across different agency sizes through multiple service tiers. The company’s goal is to improve collection efficiency, increase recovery rates, and boost customer satisfaction for both collectors and consumers.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$5.4M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • Aktos listed ten open roles on August 1, 2026, showing active expansion.
  • The 2025 AI Phone Agent production launch deepens automation and product stickiness.
  • Native integrations with payment processors, dialers, and data transfers reduce switching friction.

What critics are saying

  • Aktos remains seed-stage after the June 2023 $4.4 million round.
  • Ten open roles on August 1, 2026 signal heavy burn before durable revenue.
  • Skit.ai, Prodigal, TrueAccord, and HighRadius crowd collections software; incumbents can bundle features fast.

What makes Aktos unique

  • API-first collections OS replaces 20-year-old agency software.
  • Aktos shipped AI Phone Agent in 2025 with inbound and outbound calls.
  • Collectors using Aktos touch 3.5x more accounts daily than legacy systems.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Remote Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

401(k) Retirement Plan

Stock Options

Company Equity

Health Insurance

Wellness Program

Gym Membership

Phone/Internet Stipend

Company News

FinSMEs
Jun 22nd, 2023
Aktos Raises $4.4M in Seed Funding

Aktos, a New York- and San Francisco, CA-based provider of a system of record for modern debt collections agencies, raised $4.4M in Seed funding.

Business Wire
Jun 22nd, 2023
Aktos Announces New Investment to Transform the $20B Accounts Receivable Management Industry

Aktos, the leading system of record for modern debt collections agencies, announced today that it has raised $4.4 million in Seed funding co-led by 8V