Founding Product Manager (Vals Smith)

Vals AI•San Francisco, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

We’re looking for a founding product manager (PM) hire to drive the next phase of company growth through Vals Smith, our enterprise product that tells customers which model is best for their use case. Every large enterprise organization is now being asked to pick model providers, justify the spend, and defend that choice internally. Almost none of them have evidence. They are making seven- and eight-figure decisions on vibes. Early users have already run Vals Smith against their own repositories, and we have more demand than we have capacity to work. In this role you’ll own the loop between what enterprise customers need from Vals Smith and what we ship and build the machinery that turns that into repeatable revenue.

Requirements

2+ years in a technical, customer-facing role: forward-deployed engineer, solutions engineer, technical PM, ML engineer who's owned customer engagements, or similar.
A technical degree (CS, EE, math) and prior IC engineering experience.
Demonstrated ability to lead a technical engagement end-to-end — from first conversation with a customer's CTO or Head of AI, to scoped statement of work, to delivered eval.
Strong written and verbal communication. You'll be in the room with senior buyers and you need to be credible in 30 seconds.
Ability to work in-person, in San Francisco.

Nice To Haves

You won't be the one shipping our core platform, but you'll write code to scope evals, run experiments with customer data, and build prototypes.

Responsibilities

Own product roadmap for Smith.
Run discovery directly with design partners, then ship the changes yourself collaborating directly with engineering + design team: onboarding, repo ingestion, results UX, integrations, demo/POC environments.
Be the technical half of the deal alongside our Head of Partnerships hire. You'll be in the room for evaluations and POCs, own the scoping conversation with a customer's CTO or Head of AI, and turn what buyers push back on into roadmap.
Build the activation funnel from signups all the way to recurring use.
Play a material role in pricing and packaging. Partner with the founders and GTM on how credits, tiers, and enterprise plans are structured, and own the usage instrumentation and analysis that informs those decisions.