Product Management Apprentice

Liminal•Boston, MA

99d

About The Position

This role is for a Product Management Apprentice at Liminal, a Founders' Studio that co-builds with repeat founders, providing build expertise, capital, and access from founding to Series B. The apprentice will work across ventures from their earliest moments, turning a founder's conviction into a usable, valuable, and reliable product. The role requires fluency in understanding user needs versus stated needs, technical feasibility versus promises, and business sustainability versus founder dreams.

Requirements

Structured thinking to decompose ill-defined problems into testable hypotheses and clear next steps, comfortable with ambiguity, no existing product, no usage data, and a founder with a world-changing obsession.
Strong analytical skills to model trade-offs and interrogate data, distinguishing meaningful metrics from vanity numbers.
User empathy to triangulate between what people say, what they do, and what they need.
Sharp communication skills, capable of creating concise one-pagers and explaining trade-offs effectively to founders, engineers, and investors.
A contrarian streak and independent thinking, unafraid of unpopular positions and open to disagreeing and committing.

Nice To Haves

Experience gained through an unusual path into Product Management (e.g., ER nurse, PhD dropout, failed founder) with a compelling story to tell.

Responsibilities

Conduct deep market research, user interviews, competitive analysis, and technology landscape mapping to surface non-obvious insights and reframe problem spaces.
Collaborate with founders to shape product vision, features, value propositions, and roadmaps, translating sprawling ideas into scoped, sequenced plans with clear trade-offs.
Prototype, test, and iterate on products, running experiments with real users and making data-driven decisions to kill ideas when necessary, using surgical diplomacy.
Coordinate with engineering and design to scope, build, and ship Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), owning the connective tissue between vision and execution.
Actively explore and apply AI tools to enhance product development processes, including research synthesis, prototyping, and user testing.