Product Manager

AwardSpring•Chicago, IL

46d•Hybrid

About The Position

AwardSpring is seeking an AI-native Product Manager who is comfortable shipping code directly. This role is unique as it leverages AI-native development, allowing a single individual with strong product judgment and the right tools to move from idea to shipped feature without a traditional handoff to engineering. The Product Manager will own the entire process, including discovery, decisions, and delivery, and will be responsible for shipping features end-to-end in the company's codebase using agentic tooling. This is an individual contributor role on a small product team, reporting to the CTO, and will involve close collaboration with engineering, design, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

Shipped production software using Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable agentic tools.
3+ years in a product role, formal or informal - PM, tech lead, founder, or "owned outcomes" by any other name.
Comfortable in a codebase. You don't need to have been an engineer, but you need to be unafraid of code.
Strong opinions about what "good" looks like - product decisions and craft.
Comfortable presenting to customers, executives, and peers.

Nice To Haves

Fluency in agentic development.

Responsibilities

Own outcomes for a product area: discovery, decisions, delivery.
Ship features end-to-end in our codebase using agentic tooling. Engineers will review and harden; you own the work through to production.
Make the product judgment calls - what to build, what to cut, what good looks like.
Talk to customers regularly; your voice is the customer's voice in the team.
Define and track the metrics that matter for your area.