Founding Product Lead

Palo Alto, CA, US • Posted 6 hours ago • Updated 6 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $225,000.00 - 300,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Angel
  • ARM
  • Oracle
  • IPO
  • Acquisition
  • Venture Capital
  • Videoconferencing
  • Strategy Development
  • Roadmaps
  • Go-To-Market Strategy
  • User Experience
  • Usability
  • Fluency
  • Collaboration
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Product Management
  • Writing
  • Prototyping
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Startups
  • Product Development
  • Business-to-business
  • Product Design
  • Palo Alto
  • Military
  • SAP BASIS
  • Authorization
  • Law
  • LOS
  • Recruiting
  • Legal
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Privacy

Summary

Join a well-funded AI startup in the heart of Silicon Valley as its founding product leader, working directly with accomplished founders and engineers to build and launch a next-generation AI personalization platform from the ground up.

This Jobot Job is hosted by: Brandon Bays
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Salary: $225,000 - $300,000 per year

A bit about us:

We are a well-funded, Silicon Valley-based AI startup building a next-generation personalization platform at the intersection of consumer technology and modern AI.

Backed by a top-tier venture capital firm and prominent angel investors from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA/ARM, and Oracle AI, we're tackling ambitious technical challenges to create intelligent, seamless experiences that enhance everyday life.

Our founding team consists of accomplished Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and executives who have built companies from inception through IPO, led successful acquisitions by Fortune 500 companies, and scaled businesses at an extraordinary pace.

We're building our founding team in Palo Alto and looking for exceptional product leaders who want to help shape the future of AI-powered consumer experiences.

Why join us?

True Founding Leadership Opportunity: Become our first product leader, owning the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution from day one.
Exceptional Backing: Well-funded with support from a top-tier Silicon Valley VC and prominent investors across the AI ecosystem.
Work Directly With Proven Founders: Partner with experienced entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled startups through IPOs and major exits.
Build at the Frontier of AI: Shape a next-generation consumer personalization platform leveraging modern AI technologies.
Real Ownership & Influence: Make critical product and technical decisions, define product culture, and eventually build out the product organization.
Highly Competitive Compensation: $225K-$300K base salary.
Move Fast, Build Big: Join an ambitious, engineering-driven team that values ownership, speed, product craft, and meaningful execution over unnecessary bureaucracy.

Job Details

We're seeking an exceptional, hands-on product leader to own the strategy, development, and launch of our core AI-powered consumer platform. You'll work directly with the founders, engineering, and design teams to take products from 0 1 and build the foundation for long-term scale.

What You'll Do:
Own end-to-end product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution.
Build and launch 0 1 products, validate MVPs, drive experimentation, and achieve product-market fit.
Partner closely with engineering on architecture, technical tradeoffs, product specifications, and execution.
Create detailed PRDs, prototypes, and clear acceptance criteria.
Drive rapid product development while maintaining exceptional usability, performance, and reliability.
Help shape enterprise GTM strategy, customer discovery, and product positioning alongside the founders.
Balance compelling consumer experiences with enterprise customer requirements.
Establish lightweight product processes, success metrics, and feedback loops.
Help hire and scale the product organization as the company grows.

What We're Looking For:
10+ years of product management experience, ideally including senior product leadership at high-growth technology companies.
Proven success building products from concept through launch and meaningful user or revenue traction.
Strong consumer product instincts and exceptional judgment around UX, usability, and product design.
Deep technical fluency with the ability to collaborate closely with senior engineers on architecture and AI/ML systems.
Hands-on approach to product management, including writing specifications, prototyping, and working directly with engineering.
Strong familiarity with modern AI tools, including Claude Code or similar AI-assisted development platforms.
Experience working in fast-paced, early-stage startup environments with significant ambiguity.
Excellent communication, prioritization, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Bachelor's degree required; technical background strongly preferred.

Highly Preferred:
Founding or first product hire experience at an early-stage startup.
Consumer AI product development experience.
B2B2C, prosumer, or consumer-to-enterprise product experience.
Experience with privacy-sensitive data.
Previous engineering or product design background.

Compensation: $225K-$300K Base Salary

Location: Palo Alto, CA

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  • Position Id: 1568608460
  • Posted 6 hours ago
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