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Our client is hiring a founding product manager to guide product strategy and develop our roadmap. In this role, you’ll be pivotal in understanding customer challenges and ensuring our product provides meaningful solutions to complex engineering problems. You’ll partner closely with customers, go-to-market teams, and engineers to ensure alignment between the vision and our user’s needs. You’ll also have the unique opportunity to shape our process from the ground up.
Our client, a B2B SaaS company with $25MM in funding, revolutionizes machine operations with an automated data review platform for complex systems. Their solution enhances reliability and accelerates development cycles, serving industries like spaceflight, autonomous systems, and energy. By streamlining data ingestion, storage, and analysis, they empower engineers to unlock insights and drive innovation.
Founded by senior engineers from SpaceX, Google, and Palantir, the company builds tools to simplify regulatory compliance and improve manufacturing processes, shaping the future of cutting-edge technology.
What we look for
We’re looking for a PM who thrives in dynamic, high-growth environments and wants to service industries like satellite constellations, renewable energy, and autonomous transportation. This is a rare opportunity to influence an early-stage company's success and direction. You will report to our Co-Founder and CTO and play a critical role in translating our long-term vision into a tangible product roadmap.
- An ability to synthesize myriad inputs and build a cohesive roadmap.
- Strong customer empathy with a history of building relationships, conducting deep research, and translating insights into product features.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and lead cross-functional collaboration without being a bottleneck.
- Strong understanding of product prioritization frameworks and experience building products that deliver measurable value to customers.
- Technical fluency, with the ability to discuss and align on engineering trade-offs and communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders.
- 5+ years of experience as a product manager, with a proven track record of delivering complex B2B SaaS products. Experience at an early-stage startup is a strong plus.
Nice to haves
- Experience with data warehousing/lake housing (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Iceberg)
- Data job orchestration (e.g. Dagster, Airflow)
- Batch and stream processing systems (e.g. Kafka, Spark, Flink)
- Data cataloging, discoverability, and life-cycle management
- Data science models, integrations, or data pipeline development (DBT, Fivetran, AirByte)
Role responsibilities
- Guide the vision, strategy, and execution of product, ensuring short-term tactics align with long-term goals.
- Establish close relationships with customers to uncover their needs and validate opportunities.
- Own the product development lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with company goals and user needs.
- Collaborate with the go-to-market, design, and engineering teams to set priorities, optimize the product roadmap, and drive business objectives.
- Conduct market research and competitive analysis to shape product strategy, identifying opportunities to expand value for existing customers and drive new revenue.
- Set up instrumentation to measure and validate product value, ensuring product decisions are based on clear metrics.
- Build a scalable product development process, facilitating smooth collaboration between design, engineering, and product functions.