Founding Product Manager

Ampersand

$130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS or related fields
  • Direct experience working with engineering teams to deliver technical products
  • Ability to read API documentation and comprehend technical tradeoffs
  • Strong instincts for customer discovery and feedback interpretation
  • Proficient written communication skills
  • Experience in prioritizing product features backed by data
  • Professional engineering background is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Gather customer feedback and prioritize development tasks
  • Manage the user experience for Ampersand connectors
  • Assist with customer support inquiries that require product expertise
  • Analyze API documentation and code to inform implementation decisions
  • Establish partnerships with API providers and developers
  • Identify improvements for connector quality and usability
  • Implement automation using AI tools to enhance team efficiency.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Free lunch on in-office days (Mon/Tue/Thu)
  • 401(k) with company match and commuter benefits
  • Up to 4 weeks PTO
  • Team socials and retreats.
Full Job Description
The Role

We're hiring a Founding Product Manager to take over a product layer that's been founder-owned until now. You'll work alongside the CTO, a founding engineering team, and in close contact with customers to define what gets built, why, and when.

This role requires genuine technical fluency, strong customer instincts, and the ability to operate with minimal structure. If you thrive in cross-functional environments where decisions travel in writing and customer feedback shapes the roadmap, then this role is built for you.

What You'll Own
  • Customer Feedback Loop - Gather requirements, prioritize work, unblock engineers, project-manage delivery, and close the loop with customers when things ship.
  • Connector Experience - Own the product experience for Ampersand connectors - an open-source project that drives the API-specific product features customers depend on.
  • Customer Support - Help manage customer inquiries when questions require product judgment or a deeper understanding of a customer's implementation.
  • Technical Depth - Dive into API documentation or code when needed to understand implementation tradeoffs and push back on decisions that affect the customer experience.
  • API Partnerships - Build partnerships with API providers that have developer ecosystem or partnership programs.
  • Quality & Coverage - Identify opportunities to improve connector quality, reliability, usability, and coverage across the platform.
  • Internal Automation - Use AI tools to build automations and workflows that make the team faster.
What You'll Bring
  • 3+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, infrastructure, or enterprise software
  • You've worked directly alongside engineering teams to ship technical products
  • Technical enough to read API docs, review implementation tradeoffs, and push back on decisions that affect the customer experience
  • Strong customer discovery instincts; you find signal in conversations, not just dashboards
  • Excellent written communication
  • A track record of making prioritization calls and defending them with data and customer context
  • Professional engineering experience is a strong plus.

The Perks
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Free lunch on in-office days (Mon/Tue/Thu)
  • 401(k) with company match, commuter benefits, HSA
  • Up to 4 weeks PTO
  • Team socials and retreats

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