Staff Product Manager

Own a strategic bet that spans multiple projects, from concept through adoption, including the metric it's accountable to

Develop and evangelize the strategy for that bet over months, build executive conviction on it, and defend your recommendations under pressure

Set the product taste bar across the bet: talk to customers directly, walk the flows, and hold a clear POV on what great looks like

Design workflows where AI does the bulk of the analysis, prototyping, and synthesis, and set the verification standards that keep that work honest

Self-serve your own answers: write your own SQL, run your own analyses in Metabase and Amplitude, prototype in Claude/Devin/Lovable when that's the fastest path to a real answer

Improve how the org ships: planning rituals, post-launch reviews, prioritization loops, and the systemic bottlenecks nobody has owned yet

5+ years of product management experience, including a track record of owning multi-project, strategic bets end-to-end

Evidence you can turn ambiguity into a shipped outcome: you've taken something with no playbook and made it real

Demonstrated ability to build executive conviction and land tough no's, including upward

A history of shipping fast on small teams, where you did the work yourself rather than directing others to do it

Fluency with data: you pull it, model it, and use it to pressure-test your own ideas rather than confirm them

Daily, sophisticated use of AI in your own workflow, and a clear-eyed view of where it fails: hallucinated metrics, vibe-coded prototypes, plausible-but-wrong output

Experience developing other PMs, formally or informally

Bonus if you've worked on conversational, LLM-powered, or agentic products, or sold into large enterprises

Making hard calls with incomplete information, then updating fast when the evidence contradicts you

Collaborating intensively, thinking out loud, riffing with eng and design, and building on others' ideas

Picking the right artifact for the job (a PRD, a Loom, a prototype, or a one-paragraph hypothesis), and never the wrong one out of habit

Going back to the data after launch and reading it honestly, including when it says you were wrong

Multiplying through frameworks, rituals, and coaching rather than doing everything yourself

Need a defined roadmap handed to you, or a manager to unblock you

Measure your contribution in specs written or features launched rather than outcomes moved

Prefer long stretches of solo, heads-down work

Want clearly defined swim lanes and minimal ambiguity

Need large teams or heavy processes to feel productive

Insist on hand-writing every PRD and analysis

Outsized missions from day one, with direct responsibility for company-defining projects

Work alongside the executive team with transparency into strategy and decision-making

Influence on direction through real-time customer feedback and market insights

Work directly with cutting-edge AI models and next-generation platforms

Build expertise in enterprise AI implementation across Fortune 500 companies and multiple industries

Establish yourself as a recognized leader among peers in shaping how AI transforms work at a global scale

Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company at a growth inflection point

Financial upside that comes from scaling fast

Top-up grants as we scale and you deliver exceptional performance — your compensation grows alongside your impact

A culture built for top talent: intensity to win, growth without limits, and a team that solves hard problems and celebrates big wins together

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