Technical GTM Lead

TandemLaunch

$100K — $120K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in technical product management or similar roles.
  • Proven track record of bringing a technical product to paying customers.
  • Advanced degree (PhD/M.Sc/M.Eng) or equivalent technical fluency.
  • Bilingual in French and English.
  • Experience in ambiguous environments relevant to early-stage companies.

Responsibilities

  • Own customer and partner engagements from initial contact through technical evaluation to paid pilot.
  • Develop and oversee product positioning and customer-facing materials across multiple ventures.
  • Translate customer feedback into actionable product direction.
  • Conduct customer discovery to identify new market applications and segments.
  • Represent ventures at industry events and meetings with partners and customers.
  • Mentor and collaborate with venture leads on commercial strategies.

Benefits

  • Access to a leading venture studio specializing in deep tech with 15+ years of experience.
  • Exposure to a wide array of ventures in AI, hardware, and materials within the first year.
  • Participation in fund economics through an employee incentive pool.
  • Mentorship from experienced co-founders and product leads.
  • A collaborative and inquisitive team environment.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are hiring a Technical GTM Lead to be the product-and-market voice inside several of our ventures at once.

These are companies with IP-backed technologies from cutting edge university research, a founding team, and on their first steps to commercial traction. Your job is to support our founders in identifying who would pay, get in front of them, carry the conversation through technical evaluation to a paid pilot or a design win, and feed what you learn back into what the venture builds next.

This is a leadership-track role that hinges on your ability to mentor and influence growing leaders. You will join our venture development team to help our ventures reach the necessary commercial traction to secure their next stage of financing.
What You'll Do
  • Own customer and partner engagements end-to-end - from first conversation, through technical evaluation, to a paid pilot or design win. You find the buyer, you get the meeting, you carry it to money in collaboration with the venture's leads.
  • Own product positioning and the customer-facing materials that support it - product sheets, decks, demo strategies - across multiple ventures simultaneously.
  • Turn what customers tell you into product direction. You are the person who helps the venture clarify the reasons to adjust their strategy in response to market needs, and collect the evidence that justifies it.
  • Run customer discovery and find the next market - new applications and adjacent segments for ventures that are starting to get traction.
  • Represent ventures externally at industry events, partner meetings, and customer conversations.
  • Mentor and directly work alongside our venture leads as the commercial half of each venture team.
What We're Looking For
Requirements
  • You have taken a technical product to a paying customer. A purchase order, a paid pilot, a signed design win, a contract. Tell us what it was, who bought it, and what they paid. Grants, non-dilutive funding, maturation envelopes, accelerator awards and research scholarships are all valuable, but direct customer engagement is critical.
  • PhD/M.Sc/M.Eng degree or equivalent research-level technical fluency. You can hold a real conversation with hardware engineers, ML researchers, or physicists - and are able to provide guidance on their technology strategy.
  • Professional French and English.
  • You have worked in ambiguity - as a product lead, founding PM, co-founder, applications or solutions engineer, or the first commercial hire at an early-stage company.
Also true of the people who thrive at TandemLaunch
  • Genuine curiosity about novel technology.
  • You are comfortable navigating low-information environments to develop a strategy.
  • You are honest about what you do not know.
You might be coming from

Technical product management at a hardware or ML company • the first commercial hire at a deep-tech startup • applications or solutions engineering • product marketing for a technical product • technical sales or business development in B2B hardware • a founding team where you owned go-to-market.
What We Offer
  • A seat at one of very few venture studios globally with 15+ years of track record in deep tech.
  • Cross-portfolio exposure - ventures spanning AI, sensors, hardware, materials and audio in your first year.
  • Participation in fund economics through TandemLaunch's employee incentive pool - long-term upside that grows with the portfolio.
  • Direct mentorship from operators - co-founders, product leads and CEOs across the portfolio.
  • A supportive team that values curiosity, initiative and collaboration.

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