Head of Product – AI-Native Initiatives

Role Overview

• Own a new product line end-to-end.
• Lead engineering directly.
• Prototype and ship yourself.
• Make the hard technical tradeoffs.
• Design for human-in-the-loop agentic systems.
• Partner across the PDE triad.
• Work directly with customer teams.
• Shape the commercial model.

Requirements

• 8+ years across product management and engineering combined, with meaningful time in a product leadership role.
• Startup experience strongly preferred.
• You have shipped at least one product from a blank page to real customers and real revenue.
• You have been an engineer at some point in your career, or your product work has been deeply technical enough that engineers respect your architectural instincts.
• You do not want just to direct the work; you want to be in it.
• You experiment with AI tools in and outside of work.
• You hold strong product convictions and will push back on a CEO, a customer, or a head of engineering when you think they are wrong.
• You understand that great products drive business.
• You love solving puzzles.
• Based in or willing to relocate to the San Mateo area.

Benefits

• Living by our values over avoiding conflict.
• Transformational over predictable.
• Intensity over comfort.
• Craftsmanship over throughput.
• Ownership over process.