Y Combinator

Product & PLG Lead

Y Combinator$120K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in product, analytics, or growth roles
  • Expertise in product-led growth strategies
  • Proficiency in tools like PostHog, Amplitude, and SQL
  • Strong ability to analyze user intent and product behavior
  • Experience interfacing with both users and data
  • Attention to detail in product messaging and usability
  • Adaptability to navigate ambiguous situations

Responsibilities

  • Own product analytics initiatives with tools like PostHog
  • Create dashboards to track user engagement and growth metrics
  • Segment users based on behavior, use cases, and revenue potential
  • Conduct A/B tests to optimize onboarding and activation flows
  • Analyze which features drive user retention and expansion
  • Gather insights through customer interviews to refine user personas
  • Develop lifecycle marketing campaigns to enhance user value

Benefits

  • Full-time, position based on-site in San Francisco
  • Collaboration with engineering and revenue teams
  • Opportunities for experimentation and innovation
  • Focus on understanding user needs and enhancing product value
  • Emphasis on personal growth in a dynamic environment
Full Job Description
Location: San Francisco, CA

Type: Full-time, on-site
TLDR

We're hiring a Product & PLG Lead to understand who uses AgentMail, why they need it, where they get stuck, what makes them activate, and how product usage turns into expansion.

This role owns the product-led growth loop. You'll work across PostHog, customer calls, onboarding flows, docs, API usage, lifecycle emails, and experiments. Your job is to understand what people are building with AgentMail, which use cases matter most, and how to get more users to value faster.
What You'll Do
  • Own product analytics across PostHog and related tools
  • Build dashboards for signup quality, activation, retention, expansion, churn, and PLG-to-sales conversion
  • Segment users by persona, use case, company type, behavior, API usage, and revenue potential
  • Run A/B tests across onboarding, docs, lifecycle emails, pricing, packaging, and activation flows
  • Identify which API features and use cases drive the strongest retention and expansion
  • Interview customers and translate usage into clear personas and product insights
  • Build lifecycle campaigns that help users get to value faster
  • Partner with engineering to improve docs, examples, templates, SDK flows, and first-run experience
  • Partner with revenue to identify high-intent accounts and expansion opportunities
What We're Looking For
  • You are obsessive about funnels, product behavior, event tracking, and user intent
  • You have worked on PLG, growth, product, analytics, or lifecycle at a technical product company
  • You know tools like PostHog, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment, Customer.io, SQL, Hex, Metabase, or similar
  • You can form a hypothesis, instrument it, ship an experiment, and interpret the result
  • You care about developer experience and business outcomes
  • You can talk to users and also inspect raw product data
  • You notice tiny product and messaging details that others miss
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and can create structure from messy usage patterns
Bonus Points
  • Experience with developer tools, APIs, infra, AI products, or B2B PLG
  • Experience turning self-serve users into sales-qualified accounts
  • Experience with pricing/packaging experiments
  • Experience building onboarding, docs, lifecycle, or activation systems
  • You can write clear product copy and explain technical concepts simply

About Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a venture capital firm that provides seed funding, mentorship, and resources to early-stage startups. The company was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Morris, and has since funded over 2,000 startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe. Y Combinator's mission is to help startups succeed by providing them with the tools and resources they need to grow and scale their businesses.
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