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Alex AI

Founding Product Manager

Alex AI, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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About Alex Alex is one of the fastest-growing startups to come out of its YC batch with strong traction. We’re revenue-generating, well-funded, and backed by premier investors with years of runway. We’re building the future of hiring. Our AI recruiter conducts live job interviews, helping companies get deep hiring signals faster and more efficiently than ever before. Customers love the product - and we’re just getting started.

About the role We’re hiring our first Product Manager to act an operator, not a process PM. This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and takes real ownership of outcomes. You’ll work directly with the founders to turn enterprise customer pain into shipped product that drives revenue, retention, and trust.

This is a hands‑on role. You will be close to customers, work with engineering, and be accountable for prioritization decisions that materially affect the business.

What you’ll do

Own product outcomes (not just roadmaps)

Turn company strategy and enterprise customer needs into a focused, executable roadmap

Define clear success metrics and ensure shipped work moves them

Make hard tradeoffs and say no - often

Be deeply embedded with customers

Join enterprise sales calls, onboarding, and escalation conversations

Talk to customers weekly to understand buying friction, adoption blockers, and trust concerns

Translate messy, qualitative feedback into clear product direction

Operate day‑to‑day with engineering

Partner closely with the CTO and engineers to scope, sequence, and ship work

Write concise, practical specs that optimize for speed and clarity

Unblock teams by making decisions quickly and revisiting them only when data changes

Be a forcing function for clarity

Surface tradeoffs early and explicitly

Keep the organization aligned as priorities shift

What success looks like (first 6‑12 months)

Clear product priorities shared across CEO, CTO, sales, and engineering

Faster shipping with less rework and thrash

Measurable improvements in enterprise activation, expansion, or deal velocity

What we’re looking for

Required

4+ years of product management experience (startup experience strongly preferred)

Proven ability to ship product in ambiguous environments

Strong customer instincts — you care deeply about real user pain

Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information

Clear communicator with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Nice‑to‑have

Experience shipping AI applications

Experience selling to or building for enterprises

Background in fast‑growing startups (Seed–Series B)

Former founders or operators (YC strongly preferred)

This role is not for you if:

You prefer heavy process over speed

You need perfect data before making decisions

You want clear requirements handed to you

You’re uncomfortable pushing back on founders

You don’t want to work in person – we’re in office in San Francisco 5 days a week

Why join

Direct ownership over a mission‑critical product at Series A

Close partnership with founders on real decisions

Opportunity to shape enterprise product foundations early

High trust, high accountability environment

We’re looking for a builder who wants to own outcomes, not a roadmap. If you’ve been the PM who actually made things work at an early‑stage company, we want to talk.

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