Job Title: Product Lead
Location: Los Angeles
Reporting to: Co-Founder
About the Role:We are seeking a seasoned and versatile person to run Product. This is a rare, zero-to-one hire. You will sit at the intersection of product execution and growth strategy - embedded with engineering to ship product that moves the needle, and accountable for the metrics that prove it. This role demands someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can take ambiguous requirements and turn them into robust, high-quality, and scalable solutions, and can mentor peers in best practices. You will have an outsized influence on how this company scales.
What You'll Do:Product Execution- Own PRDs end-to-end - from problem definition through engineering delivery and post-launch measurement
- Be the connective tissue between business goals and technical implementation; translate operator insights and partner requirements into crisp specs
- Run sprint planning, manage the product backlog, and ruthlessly prioritize against growth impact
- Define and instrument success metrics for every feature shipped; hold yourself and the team accountable to outcomes, not output
- Use AI-native tools (Cursor, Claude, Replit, etc.) as a force-multiplier - prototype ideas yourself, generate test data, automate QA loops, and reduce back-and-forth with Eng
B2B Partnerships & AV Ecosystem- Build and deepen the product relationships with rideshare partners (Uber, Lyft, etc) and inbound AV OEM/operator partners
- Identify integration opportunities, joint GTM motions, and exclusive data-sharing arrangements that create durable competitive moat
- Own the partner product roadmap - surface their needs, translate them into internal priorities, and close the feedback loop
Driver & Operator Acquisition and Retention- Design and own the funnel from driver awareness to active fleet contributor - including onboarding, activation, and long-term retention loops
- Develop and ship driver-facing product features that improve quality scores, earnings reliability, and satisfaction
- Leverage data to identify drop-off points, experiment aggressively, and ship fast
Platform Growth Loops & Data- Build and own the growth model: identify the compounding loops in fleet scale, utilization, and partner economics that make 8Fleet's network effects defensible
- Develop a proprietary data strategy - define what to capture, how to structure it, and how to turn it into fleet intelligence that competitors cannot replicate
- Partner with engineering to ship internal tools that give operators real-time visibility and dynamic decision-making capability
- Design and run structured growth experiments; synthesize learnings into a compounding playbook
What You'll Bring to the Table:- 5-9 years in product management or growth product, ideally at a hypergrowth company (mobility, logistics, marketplace, or gig economy strongly preferred)
- Demonstrably AI-native: you use LLMs, automation, and AI tooling daily as productivity infrastructure - not as a novelty
- Strong technical fluency; comfortable reading code, writing SQL, and in a room with senior engineers without losing credibility
- Experience shipping B2B or platform product in addition to consumer-facing surfaces
- Data-driven to your core - you build models before you make recommendations, and you know the difference between a metric and a KPI
- Exceptional written clarity; your PRDs and strategy memos are the kind people forward
Bonus Points For:- Background at Uber, Lyft, Via, Waymo, Cruise, or a fleet management software company
- Experience in a founder-adjacent or "first product hire" role at an early-stage company
- Hands-on with growth infrastructure: experimentation frameworks, attribution modeling, lifecycle tooling
- Prior experience managing or deeply collaborating on partner integrations (API-level or business-level)
How We Work:We are not building a bureaucracy. We are building infrastructure for a trillion-dollar market shift, and we are doing it with a small, exceptional team. That means:
- High autonomy, high accountability - you own outcomes, not just tasks
- AI tools are table stakes, not a differentiator; we expect everyone to operate at 10x the output of a traditional team
- Decisions get made fast. We debate once, align, and ship. You will be expected to do the same
- You will have direct access to founders and be in the room for the strategic decisions that shape the company
Compensation and Benefits:- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
- Meaningful equity - this is an early, high-impact hire and will be reflected in your option grant
- Performance-based incentives tied to company growth milestones
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible work environment with strong bias toward in-person for key planning and partner work
