Product Leader · AI-Native Platforms

I build AI that people actually trust.

I build AI products for decisions that matter. I take ambiguous, high-leverage problems from strategy to working software, with governance, explainability, and human judgment built into the product rather than added after.

Remote · United States hello@anitanjoku.com
Anita Njoku
01 — About

I work where deterministic systems meet LLM reasoning, and where a wrong answer has a real cost.

My work spans AI-native developer platforms, advertising, financial services, insurance, and operational software — the kinds of systems where a small mistake can carry real financial, compliance, or customer consequences.

I prototype directly in code and with AI development agents rather than working only from slides. I review around working product. I move fast, default to writing, and own the tradeoffs across speed, correctness, and trust.

I lead cross-functional teams across engineering, design, ML, GTM, and executive stakeholders in regulated enterprise environments, doing the player-coach work of driving the highest-leverage initiative while raising the craft bar for the team around me.

Trust is a product behavior, not a disclaimer. People should be able to see what the system knows, what it inferred, and who is responsible for the decision.

70%
Reduction in creative approval cycles, retail media platform
40%
Lift in advertiser engagement
35%
Improvement in deployment velocity at 99.9% uptime
0→1
AI platforms owned end to end
02 — Selected Work

Building and scaling platforms across AI, fintech, and regulated operations.

CoreStory
2025 — Present
Principal Product Manager, AI Platform & Developer Intelligence
Own product for an AI-native platform that turns codebases into system-level insight and automated workflows. Built the trust and explainability layer around evidence surfacing, confirmed-versus-inferred transparency, and deterministic grounding so AI output is safer to act on in high-stakes engineering decisions. Define product direction across model behavior, workflow automation, and enterprise delivery.
84.51° / Kroger Precision Marketing
2022 — 2024
Principal Technical Product Manager
Led the 0→1 build of an AI-powered Creative Builder serving both internal operators and external advertisers. Embedded brand and compliance governance directly into creative workflows. Cut approval cycles 70% and lifted advertiser engagement 40% across a national retail media ecosystem.
Charles Schwab
2021 — 2022
Senior Technical Product Manager
Led modernization of an equity-compensation platform to a cloud-native, API-first system. Embedded regulatory controls and auditability into platform workflows. Improved deployment velocity 35% while holding 99.9% uptime.
Nationwide · Alaska USA
2020 — 2021
Senior Product Manager
Built workflow orchestration and automation across underwriting, policy, and digital banking, operationally heavy systems where exceptions are the job. Cut manual processing errors 14–20% while improving compliance adherence.
03 — Currently Building

Building ARAUÁN, one working product at a time.

Private Early Access Featured build

Footing by ARAUÁN

Operational intelligence for commercial contractors.

Footing is the product I’m taking furthest: a working system for commercial contractors that keeps the estimate, review, proposal, sent record, and outcome connected. Teams can bring in the work they already use, see what changed, keep decisions tied to the right version, and move forward without hiding uncertainty behind one tidy answer. I’m building it directly with contractor feedback, from product strategy and governance through the working software.

Estimate + proposal Evidence + governance Outcome learning Working product — early access
Interactive Prototype Also building

Lumen by ARAUÁN

Governance and intelligence for advertising.

Lumen is a working product prototype exploring how brands, creative teams, and media owners can create ads, set no-code requirements, route automatic and human review, compare fictional performance scenarios, and preserve the reasoning behind every decision. It grew out of a question I kept coming back to from retail media: how do you make creative move faster without making accountability harder to see?

Creative Studio Luna — AI creative partner No-code rules Human escalation

Interactive prototype using fictional advertisers, sample forecasts, and simulated approvals.

04 — Contact

Let's talk about what you're building.

Get in touch
hello@anitanjoku.com · 619-335-7922 · LinkedIn