Director of Product Management

Rational Dynamics is an early-stage startup specializing in AI reasoning systems for complex cognitive tasks. As the Director of Product Management, you will oversee the entire product lifecycle of AI products, collaborating with customers and teams to transform high-cognitive-complexity workflows, particularly in financial services.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle across discovery, strategy, prototyping, specification, launch, and iteration
• Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to identify high-value workflow problems and translate them into product direction
• Personally build rapid prototypes, demos, and workflow experiments using modern AI tools such as Lovable, Replit, and similar platforms to accelerate learning and decision-making
• Turn ambiguous customer needs and emerging technical capabilities into clear product strategy, priorities, and execution plans
• Lead and develop a team of product leaders and product managers; set a high bar for judgment, communication, and ownership
• Partner closely with Engineering, Research, and Forward Deployed teams to transform customer-specific solutions into scalable platform capabilities
• Drive product prioritization with strong judgment around tradeoffs, sequencing, and business impact rather than process for process’s sake
• Establish tight feedback loops with customers, usage data, and internal teams so the roadmap evolves quickly as the market changes
• Ensure product decisions are grounded in deep understanding of user workflows, technical constraints, and long-term strategic advantage
• Help shape Rational Dynamics’ product culture around speed, insight, clarity, and hands-on execution
• Develop metrics to manage and guide team execution, customer success, and product quality

Requirements:

• Significant product management leadership experience, including experience owning products from concept to launch in enterprise software, AI, data, or other highly technical environments
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing teams of product leaders, not only individual contributors
• Proven track record of full-stack product ownership: discovery, prototyping, requirements, launch, customer iteration, and roadmap management
• Demonstrated ability to personally prototype products and workflows using modern AI-native tools; this role requires a builder who can move from idea to working artifact quickly
• Strong technical fluency and product judgment in AI-enabled systems, including LLM-powered applications, workflow tooling, data products, APIs, or adjacent platform technologies
• Highly flexible and effective in fast-changing environments where the product, customer, and approach may evolve rapidly
• Clear and collaborative communicator who can align executives, engineers, researchers, and customers around decisions and tradeoffs
• Hands-on desire and ability; you are willing to build, test, and refine ideas yourself rather than delegate all early product exploration
• Capable of developing and communicating insight; you can synthesize customer input, technical possibilities, and market signals into clear product direction
• Relentless curiosity, learning, and improvement; you actively adopt new tools, methods, and technologies to increase product velocity and quality
• Experience building AI products in financial services or other high-consequence domains
• Experience taking products from 0 to 1 and then evolving them into repeatable, scalable offerings
• Strong design and workflow intuition, especially for products that simplify complex expert work
• Experience partnering closely with engineering and research organizations in technically demanding environments
• Experience leading product in an early-stage or high-growth startup
• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, business, design, HCI, economics, or a related field
• Graduate degree preferred