Founding Product Engineer

Melotech

1d•Remote

About The Position

Melotech is revolutionizing media and entertainment by creating art through technology. We are building a brand-new consumer product from scratch, and this role is the founding product hire. The individual will own the definition, prototyping, and shipping of the first version of the product, and subsequently focus on user retention and engagement loops to turn first-time users into daily ones. Working autonomously alongside the founder, this role will make product bets that directly influence user return rates. The position involves defining and shipping v1 of a new consumer product, prototyping rapidly, and owning the end-to-end product lifecycle from user research to shipped features across the full stack. Responsibilities include analyzing retention, DAU, and engagement metrics, conducting user interviews, and leveraging AI as a core primitive for rapid development of MVPs. The role requires making bold product calls and creative bets that shape the company's roadmap.

Requirements

3 or more years of experience, with real time as an engineer or working shoulder to shoulder with engineering
Shipped consumer product that real people used and came back to
Understand what locks users in: retention, engagement loops, habit formation
Equal parts user-obsessed and numbers-driven
AI-native, with AI woven through how you research, design and build
Come from an early-stage, high-growth consumer company, or started one yourself
Think like a founder because you have been early before
Thrive in a fast-paced and performance-oriented environment
Obsessed with music, video or social media

Nice To Haves

Ideally in music, media or streaming, though any high-engagement consumer product counts

Responsibilities

Defining and shipping v1 of a new consumer product from scratch
Prototyping fast and cutting anything that doesn't earn its place
Owning the product end to end, from user research to shipped features, across the full stack of the experience
Living in the numbers: retention, DAU and the engagement loops that shape our trajectory
Running user interviews constantly and turning what you hear into product people love
Building with AI as a default primitive, not a bolt-on, using modern tools to go from idea to production-ready MVP at lightspeed
Making bold product calls and creative bets that shape our roadmap and our company