Product Manager / Product Designer (Early Stage Focus)

Vercept • Seattle, WA

121d • $100,000 - $300,000

About The Position

We're a high-energy, impact-driven team, with a long track record of academic excellence. Our team includes researchers whose work has shaped the field—earning best paper awards at top AI conferences and even ranking among the most cited scientists in history of science. We've built fundamental, transformative research that has redefined the community, and now, we're here to change the world—one breakthrough at a time. We’re looking for a Product Manager / Product Designer who thrives in early-stage environments and loves shaping something from zero-to-one. You'll be the connective tissue between our users, engineers, and researchers—guiding development toward powerful, usable AI products. This is your opportunity to help define how people interact with the next generation of intelligence. As a Product Manager / Designer, you’ll lead the discovery, definition, design, and delivery of features that make our AI tools useful, intuitive, and sticky. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and research to prioritize the right problems, prototype quickly, and ship confidently. You’ll listen deeply to users, synthesize insights, and help drive a product roadmap that balances ambition with execution.

Requirements

• 5–12 years experience.
• Worked at early stages of successful product companies (e.g. Figma, Notion, Airbnb, Canva, Instagram, Vercel).
• Experience prioritizing and shipping features that drive activation, retention, or engagement.
• Strong UX design sensibility with a track record of shaping elegant, intuitive experiences.
• Ability to understand technical constraints and collaborate effectively with engineering and research.
• Comfort working in ambiguity and using first-principles thinking to define goals and product direction.
• Skill in translating user needs and system realities into clear, practical MVPs.
• Strong written and verbal communication, especially when reasoning through product decisions.
• A track record of moving quickly with prototypes, experiments, and iterative learning.

Nice To Haves

• AI/ML product experience: features involving models, training data, prompting, or agents.
• Background in CS, data, or machine learning.
• Experience with developer tools, agent-based systems, or infrastructure that supports AI applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the discovery, definition, design, and delivery of features for AI tools.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and research teams.
• Prioritize problems and prototype quickly.
• Listen to users and synthesize insights.
• Drive a product roadmap that balances ambition with execution.

Benefits

• $100K – $300K + Equity.
• Health benefits.
• 401(k) plan.
• Meaningful equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level