AI Product Manager
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Our client is a hyper-growth seed-stage startup building the TikTok of interactive mini-apps. They are pioneering a new consumer social platform where users scroll through a personalized feed of playable experiences and create their own content entirely through natural language. Their proprietary AI-powered creation flow transforms simple text prompts into highly engaging shareable and interactive experiences.
Founded in 2023 and backed by world-class investors (including a16z Khosla Ventures Mayfield and A*) the company has already scaled to over 1 Million Monthly Active Users (MAUs) with a nimble high-caliber team of 30 people. This is a pure product-driven organization where PMs wield true autonomy over company strategy and direction.
- Shape a New Medium: Work at the absolute bleeding edge of consumer social the creator economy and generative AI.
- True Product Autonomy: This is a PM-driven culture. You will own your OKRs and drive independent feature strategiesnot just coordinate engineering tasks.
- AI-Native Workflow: AI isnt an afterthought here; its woven into the fabric of the product and daily operations. You will use advanced AI tooling every single day to accelerate your own output build quick prototypes and analyze data.
- Direct Access & Impact: Flat organization reporting directly to the Chief of Staff and CEO allowing you to move fast without layers of corporate bureaucracy.
- Own Major Product Surfaces: Drive end-to-end strategy and product OKRs across core pillars like user growth interactive creation tools virality/sharing and user retention.
- Data-Driven Iteration: Constantly collect user feedback formulate product hypotheses and deep-dive into product analytics using tools like Amplitude and BigQuery to guide your roadmap.
- Technical Prototyping: Actively leverage AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code Cursor Codex) to build rapid proof-of-concepts run advanced SQL queries and streamline your workflow.
- Cross-Functional Shipping: Collaborate deeply with world-class Machine Learning and Core Engineering teams to scope build and ship high-impact features at startup speed.
- Consumer-First Track Record: 37 years of PM experience specifically shipping high-engagement consumer mobile or social applications (B2B or enterprise-only backgrounds will not be a fit for this role).
- AI Feature Delivery: Proven experience building or shipping user-facing AI capabilities. You must deeply understand how LLMs prompt engineering and agentic workflows function in practice.
- Startup Scrappiness: Prior early-stage startup experience where you excelled in ambiguous environments wore multiple hats and moved from 0-to-1 quickly.
- AI Tooling Proficiency: You incorporate AI development assistants (like Cursor or Claude Code) into your daily workflow to independently build demos and run technical analyses.
- Analytical Independence: Strong SQL skills and experience tracking consumer loops via Amplitude or BigQuery. You must be comfortable querying and interpreting your own data.
- Bilingual Capability: Native or full professional fluency in Mandarin and English is strictly required. The engineering and product operations span across both US Pacific and China time zones.
- Education: A STEM degree (Computer Science Data Science or Engineering) is highly preferred to establish a strong technical baseline with the engineering team.