Founding Product Manager

People Culture Talent•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

We're hiring a Founding Product Manager to fill a gap that's been founder-owned until now at a Series A AI infrastructure company. You'll work alongside the CTO, a founding engineering team, and in close contact with customers to define what gets built and why. The role requires genuine technical fluency, strong customer instincts, and the ability to operate with minimal structure.

Requirements

4+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, infrastructure, or enterprise software
Experience working directly with engineering teams to ship technical products
Strong customer discovery instincts — you find signal in conversations, not just data
Technical fluency — you can engage credibly with engineers on architecture and implementation tradeoffs
Excellent written communication; decisions travel in writing on an async-first team
A data-informed approach to prioritization — you can defend your calls

Nice To Haves

Experience with APIs, integrations, or infrastructure products is a strong plus

Responsibilities

Define and drive the roadmap.
Make sure engineering investment is pointed at the right problems.
Talk to customers directly and often.
Surface the patterns that should shape product direction.
Balance customer feedback, technical constraints, and business goals.
Make the call and document the reasoning.
Connect engineering, leadership, and go-to-market.
Keep priorities aligned as the company scales.
Guide initiatives from concept to launch.
Stay close to the work without micromanaging it.
Track competitive dynamics and industry trends.
Stand up the product processes, planning rhythms, and communication structures that don't exist yet.