Founding Product Manager

Crucibl

$130K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-7 years of product management experience with direct business impact
  • Proven track record of owning product roadmaps and making prioritization decisions
  • Experience in AI/ML products, data-heavy applications, or enterprise B2B software is a plus
  • Ability to shape product direction based on client conversations rather than just backlog items
  • Strong communication skills to convey client needs to technical teams

Responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap for the AI agent platform based on actual client engagements
  • Translate delivery pain points from clients into concrete product requirements
  • Collaborate with engineering to make quick, effective product decisions
  • Define how AI agents address complex business problems and present solutions
  • Establish metrics for success and create feedback loops for continuous improvement
  • Develop domain expertise in key verticals like CPG, healthcare, and finance

Benefits

  • Shape the product and company culture as part of a seed-stage startup
  • Directly see the impact of your work with clear outcomes
  • Work with a small, elite team focused on high performance
  • Receive a competitive salary and meaningful equity package
  • Enjoy a hybrid work schedule for better work-life balance
  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
  • Daily lunch and snacks provided for a productive work environment
Full Job Description
The Role

You've shipped products that mattered - not just shipped features, but made the calls on what to build, why, and for whom. Now imagine doing that with a live Fortune 500 client pipeline giving you daily, high-stakes signal on what the product needs to become.

This is not a traditional PM role at a company still guessing at product-market fit. You'll sit at the intersection of client delivery and product strategy - turning what strategists learn in the field into a roadmap that ships fast, and turning what engineering builds into leverage that changes what delivery can promise clients.

What You'll Do
  • Product Strategy: Own the roadmap for our AI agent platform, prioritizing against real client engagements rather than hypothetical use cases
  • Client Signal Translation: Work directly with strategists and clients to turn delivery pain points and "we wish it could also do X" moments into concrete product requirements
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner daily with engineering to scope, sequence, and ship - you're close enough to the work to make fast calls, not just write tickets
  • Agent Design: Define how our AI agents structure ambiguous business problems, execute analysis, and present recommendations - the product is the analytical framework, not just the interface
  • Metrics & Iteration: Define what "good" looks like for an AI-delivered engagement and build the feedback loops to get there faster each time
  • Domain Depth: Build real expertise in verticals like CPG, healthcare, financial services, or industrials, so your product decisions reflect what actually matters to clients in each space
You Might Be a Great Fit If

You have the product pedigree.
  • 3-7 years in product management, ideally at a company where product decisions had direct, high-stakes business consequences
  • Shipped end-to-end, not just supported - you've owned a roadmap, made prioritization calls, and lived with the outcomes
  • Experience with AI/ML products, data-heavy products, or enterprise B2B software a strong plus

You want to build in the field, not from a spec doc.
  • You want your roadmap shaped by real client conversations, not just a backlog of requests
  • You're excited about AI and genuinely curious how these systems reason and fail - you don't need to write the model code, but you should want to understand it
  • You want a company where your judgment changes the product, not just the release notes

You thrive in ambiguity.
  • You take vague, high-stakes business problems and turn them into concrete product bets
  • You make progress without waiting for perfect information
  • You communicate proactively - with engineers when scope needs to shift, and with delivery teams when you spot a pattern worth building for
  • Bias toward shipping over endless discovery

You're an exceptional communicator.
  • You can turn client and delivery feedback into a crisp, prioritized narrative that engineering can act on
  • Your written specs are clear, structured, and decision-ready
  • You build trust quickly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders


Who You'll Work With

Our founders bring deep technology experience (Google-scale systems serving hundreds of millions of users) and domain expertise in high-stakes business decisions from top consulting and private equity firms. You'll be the connective tissue between these worlds, and between the company we are today and the company we're becoming.

Benefits & Perks
  • Zero to Outcome: Seed stage means you shape the product, the culture, and the trajectory - not inherit them.
  • See Your Work Matter: No abstractions, no layers - you'll see exactly what you built and what it changed.
  • The People Around You: A small, elite team that will raise your game. We hire for exceptional, not just experienced.
  • Meaningful Equity: Every offer includes a comprehensive salary and equity package.
  • Hybrid Schedule: 3 days in-office with real flexibility around the rest. We care about output, not optics.
  • Full Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision.
  • Daily Lunch & Snacks: Fueled and focused, on us.

Work Authorization

Crucibl welcomes applications from candidates requiring visa sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility is determined during the interview process.

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