Founding Product Manager

Centralize

About The Position

Centralize is hiring its first product manager to own the product roadmap and establish the product function. The role works across enterprise customers, sales and customer success teams, engineering, marketing, design, and the company’s co-founders. The product manager will identify underlying customer problems, determine priorities, write clear specifications, and lead products from discovery through launch. The scope includes the core product and new AI products such as next best actions and ambient agents. The role reports to co-founder and CTO Will Wang and works closely with co-founder and CEO Rachit Kataria. The position is remote in the United States or hybrid in New York or San Francisco.

Requirements

High agency and curiosity, with the ability to investigate beyond the problem as initially described and work toward goals without prescribed steps.
Exceptional written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to sales teams and customer pain points to engineers.
A track record of shipping and launching products, including go-to-market work.
A few years of product experience at a fast-growing product company.
Technical ability to engage deeply with engineers on AI and data systems and make sound tradeoffs.
Comfort with ambiguity and a fast pace, and interest in building a product function rather than inheriting one.
Must be a US or Canadian citizen.
Must be able to work remotely in the United States or hybrid in New York or San Francisco.

Nice To Haves

Experience at an AI-native company.
Build with AI tools every day.

Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap end to end, speaking with customers, identifying underlying problems, and deciding what to build and why.
Prioritize bugs, customer feature requests, and the roadmap for the coming months to a year.
Translate input from sales, customer success, and customers into clear specifications for engineering, while communicating the rationale behind decisions.
Lead launches from start to finish, including positioning, enablement, and go-to-market work with sales and marketing.
Work with the design lead on the website and product assets for launches.
Join customer calls with enterprise revenue teams and bring insights back into the product.
QA products before they reach customers and maintain the quality bar.
Build the product function from scratch, including how the company prioritizes, plans, and measures its work, and grow the product team as the company scales.
Work directly with the co-founders and help shape the product’s direction.