Lead PM GenAI at Envato - Remote Australia/NZ — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Location Flexibility: Envato explicitly offers the option to work from another remote location for up to 3 months per year — a meaningful perk for digital nomads who want to test the lifestyle without fully committing. The role is based in Australia or New Zealand, so your home base must be in one of those countries.
Timezone Constraints: As a Lead PM working across global Product, Design, and Engineering teams, expect some fixed meeting windows, likely anchored to AEST/NZST. This limits full async flexibility — pure slow-travel nomad setups may be challenging. However, the 3-month remote-work clause opens doors to destinations such as Bali (WIB, UTC+8), Japan (JST, UTC+9), or Portugal (WET, UTC+0–1), though the further you go from AEST, the harder overlap becomes.
Visa Options: With an AU or NZ employment contract, popular nomad-adjacent options during the 3-month window include:
- Portugal Digital Nomad Visa — requires proof of remote employment; salary threshold applies
- Thailand LTR Visa — long-term residency option for remote workers
- Bali / Indonesia — tourist visa (60 days extendable) or new Digital Nomad Visa for stays up to 180 days
Travel-Relevant Perks: The home office and learning budgets could partially offset coworking costs abroad. No explicit coworking or equipment stipend is mentioned, so factor that into your planning. The role suits someone who wants a stable home base with structured international flexibility rather than a fully nomadic lifestyle.
Help Shape What Creative Work with AI Looks Like Next
Generative AI is changing how creative work gets made — not just the tools people use, but how they riff from an idea to something finished.
At Envato, we're building for that shift. We already 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 Lead Product Manager, GenAI to help lead where that goes next.
This is a role for someone who is genuinely into this space. You're using the tools, trying new models, following what's changing and forming opinions about what is genuinely useful versus what is mostly hype — and you want the opportunity to turn that curiosity into products used by creative professionals around the world.
What You'll Do
You'll own the strategy for Envato's customer-facing GenAI experiences, identifying where AI can meaningfully improve creative workflows and taking opportunities from early signals through discovery, launch and iteration.
You'll spend time understanding how creative professionals actually work, experiment with emerging models and tools yourself, and build a strong point of view about where Envato can create something distinctive.
We want someone who likes making ideas tangible too. That could mean using AI to prototype a concept, vibe coding something quickly, or getting hands-on with a model to understand what it can really do.
From there, you'll work closely with Design and Engineering to turn the strongest opportunities into products that balance creative quality and usability with model performance, speed, scale and cost.
What We're Actually Looking For
- An experienced product leader who has owned strategy and roadmaps for customer-facing digital products.
- Deep, hands-on fluency in generative AI and generative media — you understand models, APIs and emerging capabilities well enough to work closely with technical teams, and you're already using AI in your own product work.
- An understanding of creative people and creative work. Our customers are designers, filmmakers, editors and creators. They care about quality and have a high bar for the tools they use. You need the judgement to understand the difference between an AI output that is technically impressive and one that is genuinely useful in finished professional work.
- Commercial mindset — comfortable using customer insight, data and experimentation to make decisions, and confident connecting product choices to adoption, retention, revenue and cost.
- Ability to lead through influence. This is a senior individual contributor role working globally across Product, Design, Engineering, external partners and senior leaders, including Executives. You'll need to communicate clearly, bring people with you and be comfortable making calls when there isn't an obvious answer.
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 somewhere because we can — we want to work out where it genuinely makes creative work better. And there is still a lot to figure out. That's the interesting part.
Life at Envato
We're a purpose-driven company and we've long embraced flexible, inclusive ways of working. We're proud of the connected culture we've built across our global team. Our values — Customer First, Build our Future, Make it Happen and Embrace Diversity — guide everything we do, shaping how we work and grow.
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 for a role with us 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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