About the role

We are looking for the Founding Product Manager who can work closely with customers, founders, and engineers to understand problems, write clear requirements, and help the team shape the product to disrupt mechanical workflows without disrupting them

This is a hands-on role. You will need to understand how the manufacturing industry works, how the CAD industry works, prototype your ideas, write PRDs and evals and run day to day sprints with our brilliant engineering team.

In this role, you will:

Own product execution

Turn customer needs and company priorities into clear product specs, timelines, evals and prototypes
Work with engineering, design, operations, and customer-facing teams to make sure the right things ship with the right quality.

Understand customers and the product

Speak with customers and turn feedback into clear product requirements.
Build a strong understanding of CAD workflows, engineering drawings, manufacturing needs, and where our product can improve.

Work closely with engineering

Help the software team understand product behavior, edge cases, and trade-offs.
Reproduce product issues, explain them clearly, and help the team prepare features for release.

Improve how the team works

Improve how we handle product planning, customer feedback, QA, documentation, and release reviews.
Reduce confusion, give clear feedback, and help the team move faster without adding unnecessary processes.

Note: Given that we are a startup, the exact job match will depend on your skills and interests. There is always too much to do.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience in product centric roles
Experience working closely with engineering teams and shipping software products.
Strong ability to prototype quickly and know what “great” looks like based on your understanding of users, break that down into milestones and communicate to the engineering team.
Ready to do your own homework to understand the tech the team is building well enough to map it to user workflows and what to build next (this is especially important because unlike a typical saas business, a lot of what we build is simply limited by the hardness of the problem since this has never been built before)
You should have used CAD or been exposed to the mechanical industry in some capacity
Good communication skills - especially when everyone in the team has different communication styles, you should be able to translate a == b
Ability to work with limited prior information and ambiguity
Working in a startup or having started your own business
Working on-site with a fast-moving team.

Preferred Qualifications

Background in 3D, CAD, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, or industrial automation.
Founder-level ambition - either you've started something yourself, or you're building toward eventually leading a product (or a company) as a founder.
Experience with building products users (ideally b2b users) love
Experience with setting evals for AI agents
You have worked with deeply technical engineering teams
You live and breathe claude code (or replit - we don't judge!)