Staff Product Manager

Valence • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Valence is pioneering leadership coaching for large enterprises in an AI-first way, aiming to transform how companies approach learning and development. They utilize AI-powered personalization, machine learning, and natural language processing to help teams work better together. Valence has been recognized as an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company and works with major global enterprises. The Staff Product Manager role offers significant ownership and the opportunity to shape strategic bets from concept to adoption, focusing on judgment and decision-making in an AI-native environment. The company fosters a high-performing, collaborative product-design-engineering culture that is effective for distributed work.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience, including a track record of owning multi-project, strategic bets end-to-end
• Evidence you can turn ambiguity into a shipped outcome: you've taken something with no playbook and made it real
• Demonstrated ability to build executive conviction and land tough no's, including upward
• A history of shipping fast on small teams, where you did the work yourself rather than directing others to do it
• Fluency with data: you pull it, model it, and use it to pressure-test your own ideas rather than confirm them
• Daily, sophisticated use of AI in your own workflow, and a clear-eyed view of where it fails: hallucinated metrics, vibe-coded prototypes, plausible-but-wrong output
• Experience developing other PMs, formally or informally

Nice To Haves

• Worked on conversational, LLM-powered, or agentic products
• Sold into large enterprises

Responsibilities

• Own a strategic bet that spans multiple projects, from concept through adoption, including the metric it's accountable to
• Develop and evangelize the strategy for that bet over months, build executive conviction on it, and defend your recommendations under pressure
• Set the product taste bar across the bet: talk to customers directly, walk the flows, and hold a clear POV on what great looks like
• Design workflows where AI does the bulk of the analysis, prototyping, and synthesis, and set the verification standards that keep that work honest
• Self-serve your own answers: write your own SQL, run your own analyses in Metabase and Amplitude, prototype in Claude/Devin/Lovable when that's the fastest path to a real answer
• Improve how the org ships: planning rituals, post-launch reviews, prioritization loops, and the systemic bottlenecks nobody has owned yet

Benefits

• Competitive salary including base + bonuses
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one
• Generous PTO, company-wide R&R shutdowns, and paid parental leave
• Retirement plan support for US and global employees
• Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company at a growth inflection point
• Financial upside that comes from scaling fast
• Top-up grants as we scale and you deliver exceptional performance — your compensation grows alongside your impact

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed