Founding Product Manager

DRH Search • New York, NY

10h

About The Position

We're assisting a startup in the lending space with their search for a founding product manager. They're building an AI CFO agent that operates across a brand's entire financial stack — managing deductions, handling email workflows, working with accounting and banking data, and more. This PM role will own this product.

Requirements

• High agency, highly communicative, systems-based thinker
• Desire to work in close proximity to engineering
• Willingness to do light engineering and design tasks (Claude Code, Claude Design, comparable)
• Deep AI-native fluency: uses Claude, Cursor, agent frameworks, or comparable tools daily
• "Flash" signal: evidence of high-slope, scrappy work. Examples: shipped side projects, GitHub portfolio at a top university, hackathon wins, college startup, or comparable.

Nice To Haves

• Technical background or undergraduate CS / Engineering degree
• Familiarity with agent infrastructure, LLM tool calling, or Claude Code-style architecture
• Interest in CPG, lending, or small business finance verticals

Responsibilities

• Own the surface area of the AI CFO agent product: features, workflows, UI states, copilot behavior
• Drive customer discovery: sit in calls with CPG founders and finance teams, watch them work, translate observations into design specs
• Sketch tool calls, review UI states, and shape agent behavior alongside engineers in the repo daily
• Ship light engineering and design tasks directly when speed matters (Claude Code, Claude Design, comparable tools)
• Coordinate across sales, customer-facing, and engineering teams to translate customer pain into shipped features
• Build and ideate on internal admin workflows that heighten the company's process velocity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed