Founding Product Manager - HR Tech
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Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire
Founding Product Manager (36 yrs)
Unfortunately we are not able to sponsor visas - youll need an existingwork permit
About Kiku
Kiku is the first automation platform built for the 80 % of the global workforce front-of-house staff retail associates caregivers drivers warehouse teams - workers that make society function.
We focus on 2 things at Kiku:
- 10x efficiency in hiring
- 10x the experience for candidates.
Our AI-agent is specialized in high-volume hiring flows - finding engaging and shortlisting candidates 24/7 in 100 languages at a fraction of manual recruiting cost and with a far better experience for applicants and hiring managers.
Weve just closed a substantial seed round led by Cherry Ventures (plus top EU angels) and are assembling the founding team that will turn Kiku from clever prototype into a category-defining product.
Why Join Kiku
- Mission with real impact fair efficient hiring for billions; revenue follows genuine value.
- Learning-obsessed culture every user call release and mis-step feeds the next iteration.
- AI inflection point voice LLMs make yesterdays workflows obsolete overnight; were surfing that wave.
- Zero-to-one canvas nothing is sacred yet: influence product org structure rituals - even Slack emojis.
- Small team loud impact decisions you make this quarter echo for years.
- Fresh capital real traction funding secured early customers live pipeline growing fast.
- Meaningful equity own a sizable slice of the upside.
Your Mission
Own the product end-to-end and make it indispensable for hiring teams everywhere.
- Craft the core experience voice UX recruiter dashboards candidate flows.
- Ship what matters fast weekly user interviews clear priorities tight releases.
- Scale the platform modernise voice-AI infra integrations data pipelines.
- Own the roadmap balance quick wins with moat-building bets; communicate trade-offs crisply.
- Orchestrate cross-functional magic align design engineering CS and sales around measurable goals.
- Shape company strategy influence positioning fundraising story GTM experiments investor updates.
What Were Looking For Personal Qualities
- Natural curiosity treat every feature request as a puzzle to understand not just to build.
- Grit & determination versions one-to-five flop you dig until version six sings.
- Commitment to excellence good enough feels itchy; you polish the last 5 % users notice.
- Humility strong opinions loosely held; change course gladly when data proves you wrong.
- Founder mindset spot problems rally resources execute before being asked.
- Impact-driven care more about shipped value than presentation decks or tweet threads.
Baseline Experience
- 36 years as a PM in fast-moving B2B SaaS or AI/ML-heavy products.
- Proven record of shipping core functionality and explaining the why behind success or failure.
- Comfortable turning fuzzy user needs into crisp specs prototypes and shipped code alongside engineers.
- Bonus:
- HR tech hiring workflows voice interfaces or frontline-heavy verticals.
- Data-fluent (self-serve SQL/Python or similar)
Team Youll Join
A tight squad of engineers and GTM folks who ship weekly think in bets and default to action. Kiku was founded by Eric & Rasmus both with 10 years in tech and scale-ups. We move fast and have fun doing serious work.
Ready to build the future of frontline hiring
Shoot a short note on why Kiku your LinkedIn/CV to .
Lets make hiring fair fast and fun for everyone.
Cherry Ventures is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status or disability status.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
