Head of Product
Job Location:
Oakland, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Hello were Instrumentl.
Grants fund nonprofit work but they also create some of the toughest operational challenges. Every grant brings its own deadlines spending restrictions reporting requirements and commitments so managing that complexity across fundraising finance and HR requires more than spreadsheets.
More than 6000 nonprofits rely on Instrumentl from local community groups to state and county governments universities and maybe even your local animal shelter. Were a cash flow positive YC-backed company building our next chapter and were hiring people who will shape and grow the impact of the nonprofit sector.
Were hiring a Head of Product reporting to co-founder Angela Braren to lead our product managers as Instrumentl becomes the AI-native operating system for grant-funded organizations. Youll mature the products our founders take from 0 to 1 raise how fast we ship without giving up quality and help the team build agents that work in production. This is a builders seat: youll personally own a core product area while growing the team at a profitable company thats still early.
Our ideal candidate is proactive eager to learn willing to experiment and excited to collaborate with multiple teams to enhance the customer experience at Instrumentl. Get to know us at this position we are looking for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This role is in the office about once a week and includes about 25% travel.
Customers and product outcomes
Be one of the strongest voices of the customer outside our founders and develop your PMs into strong voices of the customer too.
Own customer outcomes and account engagement across product areas.
Take new early products built by our founders and lead them through launch broader customer adoption and ongoing improvement.
Get close to individual customers through calls site visits and conferences and turn what you learn into product decisions.
Scope and sequence the work: find the smallest version that works end to end ship it and iterate.
Build hands-on
Own a core product area yourself likely our GrantOS platform from roadmap to shipped work.
Prototype and build alongside engineering and design using AI tools to move from idea to working product quickly.
Help the team build effective agents including eval loops golden datasets and clear measures of output quality.
Lead and scale the product team
Lead and develop our PMs with clear principles for how we make decisions and ship.
Raise product velocity while keeping quality high and bring the team along on AI-native ways of working.
Partner with our co-founders to turn the companys product vision into a roadmap the whole org can execute.
Partner with engineering design sales and customer success to deliver cross-team work especially on shared platform capabilities.
8 years in product management including owning a whole product or most of a core product end to end in B2B SaaS.
A track record of taking a product from 0 to 1 and then scaling it with the customer or business results to show for it.
You still build hands-on: you prototype write specs and ship products yourself not only through others.
Experience managing and developing PMs including hiring coaching and performance management.
A track record of setting strategy across multiple product areas making investment tradeoffs and delivering measurable customer and business outcomes.
Nice to have
Founder or founding PM experience.
Shipped AI or LLM-powered features in production including evals and ways to measure output quality.
Built platform or system-of-record products that other teams depend on.
Vertical SaaS experience especially with nonprofit government or compliance-heavy customers.
Experience with both product-led and sales-led growth.
For US-based candidates the target salary range is $260000 - $325000 USD base equity. Final compensation is determined based on experience skillset scope interview performance and geographic location. Were committed to paying competitively and equitably.
Benefits
100% covered health dental and vision insurance for employees (50% for dependents).
Generous PTO including parental leave.
401(k).
Company laptop and home-office stipend.
Bi-annual company retreats.
Instrumentl is evolving rapidly and youll be joining us at a pivotal point in our companys journey. Youll always have new challenges and opportunities to grow in your role - you wont be bored! As an early member of our small but mighty team youll also play a huge part in shaping our culture for the years and colleagues to come.
At Instrumentl we live by a set of Core Values that are at the heart of everything we do. Learn more about how we work at Instrumentl Careers!
Instrumentl is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate based on race color religion sex national origin age disability veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetic information or any other legally protected status. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable fair chance laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process please let us know.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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About Company
Discover, research and track grants, all in one place. Instrumentl is designed to save nonprofits time while helping them grow revenue.
