Product Builder, Contract-to-Hire

ActivTrak•Austin, TX

7h•Remote

About The Position

ActivTrak is building the next generation of work intelligence products powered by conversational AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This role owns Work Advisor's add-on MCP capability, consumption-based pricing for AI features, and expansion packs, the product line that makes ActivTrak's data usable through LLMs and agentic tools rather than dashboards alone. We're looking for someone who can move fluidly between product strategy and hands-on UX and prototyping. You'll define what we build and why, shape how it feels to use, and get close enough to the code and MCP tooling to make sharp calls about feasibility, without needing to hand off every decision to a designer or engineer first. This role is fluid by design. Some weeks you'll be deep in customer discovery and roadmap tradeoffs. Others you'll prototype a new MCP tool flow or review pricing mechanics with engineering. The through line is ownership: you drive clarity from problem to shipped product. We're starting this as a contract engagement so both sides can confirm fit before committing to a permanent role. We expect to make a conversion decision around [milestone or timeframe].

Requirements

4 to 8 years of experience in product management, product design, or a hybrid of both
Track record shipping AI-powered or data-driven B2B SaaS features end to end
Strong UX instincts: comfortable owning wireframes, user flows, and prototypes without waiting on a dedicated designer
Working knowledge of how LLM tool use and MCP servers function; you don't need to build one from scratch, but you need to understand what's happening under the hood
Experience with pricing or packaging decisions, ideally consumption-based or usage-based models
Confident communicator who can flex between executive updates and detailed requirements docs
High comfort with ambiguity; this space is still being defined at ActivTrak and industry-wide
Comfortable working as a contractor and ramping quickly with minimal onboarding runway

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI-assisted prototyping tools (Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Figma AI, or similar)
Background working directly with enterprise customers in a forward-deployed or embedded delivery model
Familiarity with workforce analytics, productivity platforms, or adjacent B2B data products
Prior contract-to-hire experience or comfort with a defined evaluation period

Responsibilities

Define the roadmap for Work Advisor's Enterprise module, MCP Server, consumption-based pricing, and future capabilities to maximize the commercial impact of our headless strategy
Run discovery with customers and internal stakeholders to identify what's worth building next
Write clear requirements and manage tradeoffs across scope, timeline, and technical constraints
Partner with engineering leadership to scope what's feasible within a given cycle
Represent this product line in cross-functional planning, including alignment with the Workflow and Insights/Ingestion teams where MCP delivery overlaps
Translate requirements into user flows and wireframes for AI-driven and MCP-based experiences
Prototype conversational and tool-use flows, including how skills and prompts surface to end users
Partner with design on visual execution when a dedicated designer is engaged, and carry lightweight design work yourself when one isn't
Validate designs directly with customers, particularly in the forward-deployed engagements feeding this roadmap
Understand MCP server architecture well enough to scope what a hosted MCP tool can and can't do
Work directly in tools like Figma, and use basic code or AI-assisted prototyping tools to build a working proof of concept, not production code
Talk credibly with engineers about tradeoffs in consumption-based pricing mechanics and data requirements