Founding Product Manager

Reducto•San Francisco, CA

10d•$150,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

Reducto is seeking a Founding Product Manager to set the product direction for their agentic document platform. This role is entrepreneurial, focusing on the core platform (APIs, no-code workflows, document processing), packaging, pricing, and go-to-market strategy. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of customers, models, and the competitive landscape, working closely with research and engineering teams to drive product value and company velocity. The role involves end-to-end product ownership, from specification to iteration, with a strong emphasis on quality, user experience, and business outcomes. This is a hands-on, low-ego position for someone who thrives in ambiguity and is passionate about building products that users love.

Requirements

5+ years as a PM, engineer, or founder, with experience taking a product from concept to paid adoption.
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to structure one's own work without a playbook.
Deeply technical: ability to read API specs, discuss model architectures, and evaluate technical tradeoffs with engineering.
Daily user of AI tools and a firsthand understanding of the AI ecosystem.
Metrics-driven: ability to define success quantitatively and understand how feature metrics ladder up to business outcomes.
Excellent taste: attention to detail in copy, flow, naming, and speed; ability to articulate why admired products are great.
Maniacal about outcomes: proactive identification of priorities, planning, execution, and accountability.
Understanding that process is a tool, not a crutch, and using it judiciously to maintain speed without chaos.

Nice To Haves

Experience building technical products for developers.
Experience with document processing / AI infrastructure.
Background in ML/AI product management, specifically shipping products powered by proprietary models.
Experience at a high-growth startup that scaled from early traction.
Experience building or scaling a horizontal platform across multiple verticals.

Responsibilities

Develop deep expertise in customers, workflows, models, and the competitive landscape to define product investment areas.
Engage constantly with customers (developers and technical buyers) to inform product decisions.
Collaborate with the research team to understand model capabilities and translate them into product value.
Multiply the team's effectiveness by removing obstacles, ensuring successful launches, de-risking decisions, and maintaining team alignment.
Accelerate the entire organization's velocity to match engineering speed, reinventing work processes as needed.
Own the end-to-end product lifecycle: spec, build, test, launch, measure, and iterate.
Define and own success metrics, including feature-level signals and top-line business metrics like revenue, pricing, packaging, and PLG motions.
Set and maintain a high quality bar for all product surfaces, personally QAing features and pushing for polish.
Develop a broad understanding across verticals (financial services, healthcare, legal, insurance) and customer personas, while also going deep into specific problem areas.
Take ownership of tasks that need doing, regardless of role, in a low-ego environment.