Founding Product Manager

Weekday AI (YC W21); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI (YC W21) in Bengaluru is seeking a hands-on Founding Product Manager to shape and execute products transforming manufacturing workflows. You will own product strategy, engage customers, and guide CAD-driven development with engineering teams.

The role requires translating complex customer problems into clear requirements, prototypes, and measurable outcomes while driving fast-paced product delivery in a startup context.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience or related roles.
• Experience working with software engineering teams and shipping software products.
• Exposure to CAD, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, 3D workflows, or industrial technology.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product execution from discovery to delivery.
• Translate customer needs into clear product requirements and milestones.
• Engage with customers to understand workflows, pain points, and opportunities for improvement.
• Work with engineering to communicate product behavior and trade-offs.
• Prototype ideas quickly and validate concepts with user feedback.
• Define evaluations and acceptance criteria for product releases.

Skills

Product management

Customer discovery

Software development liaison

CAD workflows

3D CAD

Industrial software

Tools

CAD

Engineering drawings

3D modeling

Job description

Job Description:

This is a role for one of the Weekday clients

Salary range: Rs 2000000 - Rs 4000000 (ie INR 20-40 LPA)

Experience: 3+ yrs

Location: Bangalore

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for a hands-on Founding Product Manager to work closely with customers, founders, and engineering teams to shape and execute products that transform complex mechanical and manufacturing workflows.

This role is ideal for a product leader who can operate at the intersection of product strategy, customer discovery, CAD, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and software development. You will translate real-world customer problems into clear product requirements, prototypes, milestones, and measurable outcomes while helping engineering teams build products that solve genuinely difficult problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product execution, from customer discovery and problem definition to product delivery and iteration.
• Translate customer needs and business priorities into clear product requirements, PRDs, prototypes, milestones, timelines, and evaluation criteria.
• Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, pain points, requirements, and opportunities for product improvement.
• Develop a strong understanding of CAD workflows, engineering drawings, mechanical design, manufacturing processes, and industrial workflows.
• Work closely with engineering teams to communicate product behavior, edge cases, technical trade-offs, and expected outcomes.
• Prototype product ideas quickly and use customer insights to validate concepts before development.
• Break complex product problems into practical milestones and communicate priorities clearly to engineering teams.
• Reproduce, investigate, and clearly document product issues to support effective debugging and resolution.
• Partner with engineering, design, operations, and customer-facing teams to ensure high-quality product releases.
• Define product evaluations, acceptance criteria, and quality benchmarks, including evaluations for AI-powered features or agents where applicable.
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, release discussions, QA processes, and product prioritization.
• Improve processes around product planning, customer feedback, documentation, QA, and release management.
• Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce ambiguity, and help engineering teams move faster without unnecessary processes.
• Continuously research technical challenges and emerging technologies to understand what is possible and how it can be applied to customer workflows.
• Take ownership of ambiguous and technically complex problems and drive them toward practical product outcomes.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 3+ years of experience in product management, product development, or other product-centric roles.
• Proven experience working closely with software engineering teams and successfully shipping software products.
• Exposure to or hands-on experience with CAD, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, 3D workflows, or industrial technology.
• Strong understanding of user workflows and the ability to translate complex customer problems into clear product requirements.
• Excellent ability to prototype ideas quickly, evaluate product quality, and define what a great user experience should look like.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break complex problems into actionable milestones.
• Comfortable working with highly technical engineering teams and understanding enough technical detail to make informed product decisions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical, business, and customer perspectives.
• Comfortable operating with limited information, ambiguity, and rapidly changing priorities.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive initiatives from 0 to 1.
• Experience working in a startup, entrepreneurial environment, or early-stage product organization is highly desirable.
• Strong customer empathy and experience building products that users genuinely value.
• Experience defining evaluation frameworks for AI products or AI agents is a strong advantage.
• Background in 3D, CAD, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, or industrial automation is preferred.
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial mindset, with experience building something independently or an ambition to take ownership of products and businesses at a leadership level.
• Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development and productivity tools to research, prototype, analyse, and accelerate product execution.
• Willingness to work on-site in Bengaluru with a fast-moving, highly collaborative team.