Full-Time
Head of Product
Crossing Minds
1-10 employees
AI-powered B2B product recommendation platform
Compensation Overview
$150k - $200k/yr
H1B Sponsorship Available
Toronto, ON, Canada + 2 more
More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA | Paris, France
Hybrid
Hybrid role; on-site presence required in SF, Toronto, and Paris.
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- 5-7 years experience in technical B2B product management
- Demonstrated track record of building high value product teams
- Demonstrated success in shipping and iterating on products within an agile software development environment
- Ability to understand highly technical business problems, craft effective strategies to tackle them, and present simple solutions to our customers
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Extremely well organized with the ability to balance multiple concurrent priorities in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment
- Lead, define, and communicate the strategy, vision and roadmap of our AI platform with all key stakeholders, partnering with CEO & CTO
- Build processes to deliver AI-driven solutions that satisfy the needs of our B2B customers
- Collaborate with UX design efforts supporting product iterations of our B2B dashboard as well as integrated platforms
- Collaborate with engineering and machine learning teams to master the specifications of our AI platform and APIs, and lead technical product development and integrations initiatives
- Build and nurture an agile and innovative product culture within the company, founded on the importance of continuous and rapid prototyping and learning
- Assess product development sprints and enhancement opportunities, monitor progress and evaluate results
- Develop budgets, forecasts, and metrics
- Drive innovative ideas, solutions and products through leadership and decisive action
- Understand the evolving competitive landscape and identify potential strategic partnerships for complementary product offerings
- Nice to have: familiarity with ML/AI technologies, strong interest in personalization and recommendation systems, familiarity with real-time APIs and CDPs
Crossing Minds builds an AI-powered recommendation platform for businesses to boost online discovery and engagement. It delivers personalized product suggestions by using deep-learning models that generate session-based recommendations from anonymized user data, integrated via APIs and SDKs to fit into existing systems. The platform emphasizes privacy by relying on anonymized data, setting it apart from some competitors and helping clients earn measurable gains. Compared with rivals, it highlights privacy, easy integration, and trackable outcomes, such as significant lifts in sales (around 96%) and click-through rates (around 120%). The goal is to help online retailers, e-commerce sites, and digital content providers increase sales and engagement through personalized experiences while maintaining user privacy.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$13.5M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2017
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- DRINKS achieved 78% revenue increase per session in 2024.
- Beam React library supports Hydrogen 2.0 for Shopify.
- Raised $13.5 million from Index Ventures and Shopify.
What critics are saying
- OpenAI acquired Crossing Minds; operations ceased immediately.
- Founding team joined OpenAI, halting all development.
- Existing clients like DRINKS migrate within 3-6 months.
What makes Crossing Minds unique
- Privacy-focused session-based recommendations using anonymized data.
- Deep learning for precise e-commerce product discovery.
- Seamless API and SDK integration for B2B platforms.
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Benefits
Medical, dental, & vision insurance
Employer-matched 401(k)
20-day PTO
9-days of paid holiday
Company shutdown from 12/24 - 01/01
Professional education opportunities
Voluntary Travel Policy
Visa support, if needed
Company News
Backed by notable investors, Crossing Minds had raised over $13.5 million in its last funding round, indicating the potential and value of its technology in the AI landscape.
OpenAI acquires AI recommendation startup Crossing Minds.
OpenAI has acquired Crossing Minds, an AI-driven recommendation solutions provider for e-commerce, to transfer its founding team. Financial details were not disclosed. Founded in 2016, Crossing Minds has raised over $13.5 million, with investors like Index Ventures and Shopify. The acquisition aims to enhance OpenAI's personalization features and support its long-term AGI development plans. Crossing Minds will cease operations and no longer accept new customers.
'DRINKS Recommend', leveraging Crossing Minds' state-of-the-art deep learning platform, delivers AI-driven wine recommendations that increase sales, customer engagementLOS ANGELES, Feb. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- DRINKS, the pioneering and leading operating system for alcohol e-commerce, today released new data from its AI-powered wine recommendation tool, DRINKS Recommend, that illustrates its ability to nearly double revenue from recommendations for online wine merchants.DRINKS Recommend was recently deployed on select pages by two major online wine retailers, selling in excess of 250,000 bottles a month. Compared to pages that offered an industry standard "most popular" set of wine recommendations, pages that implemented DRINKS Recommend delivered:Increased conversions: a 175% increase in attributed session conversionsa 175% increase in attributed session conversions Increased revenue : a 78% increase in average revenue per session: a 78% increase in average revenue per session Increased engagement: a 52% increase in click through rateDRINKS Recommend is the newest product built on DRINKS' patented AI models, called PAIR ("Predictive AI Retailing"). PAIR analyzes wine prices, regions, varietals, tasting notes, descriptions, label features, and how a product is perceived by customers to develop personalized product recommendations tailored to online merchants, their products, and their customers."We're in the business of using technology to transform all aspects of the alcohol industry, and that includes how it gets marketed online. Most people buy wine based on the label, and our deep industry experience and engineering talent enabled us to build AI-based tech that delivers accurate and personalized wine recommendations based on factors such as label variations," said Zac Brandenberg, DRINKS Co-Founder and CEO. "This is poised to be a game-changer for those on both sides of the aisle (or screen), delivering a better experience for wine shoppers and increased bottom lines for businesses who use it."Performance for DRINKS Recommend on Shopify marks first results since migrating to the Crossing Minds platformThe performance of DRINKS Recommend on Shopify marks the first results since DRINKS migrated their recommendation model training and delivery pipeline from AWS SageMaker to Crossing Minds' cutting-edge recommendation platform
Crossing Minds announced the release of a new e-commerce data enrichment product that makes e-commerce products more intuitively discoverable to customers.