First PM for AI DevTools & Code Automation

Aviator; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

Unlimited vacation policy

Job summary

Aviator, a SF-based startup backed by Y Combinator, is hiring its first product manager to shape the next wave of AI-powered engineering productivity tools. You’ll work closely with the founders in San Francisco, decide what to build, write specs, and prototype ideas with coding agents before a single line of code is written.

Our customers run monorepos with thousands of engineers; you’ll own the roadmap for Verify from discovery to launch and adoption, collaborating with platform, infra and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management on developer tools or technical B2B products.
• Experience shipping from zero to one in an early-stage startup.
• Able to read PRs and participate in architecture discussions.
• Strong written communication with engineers and executives.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding tools and opinions on gaps.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for a product area end to end—from discovery to launch and adoption.
• Write clear, opinionated specs that engineers and agents build from.
• Prototype ideas with coding agents to test with users before engineering time.
• Run discovery with platform, infra and DevEx teams across customers.
• Partner with founders on positioning, pricing and packaging, and with engineering on scope and trade-offs.
• Define success metrics for launches and decide the next steps based on data.
• Shape product storytelling through posts, docs, demos and talks.

Skills

Product management

Developer tools

AI tooling

Written communication

Customer empathy

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Job description

Aviator, a SF-based startup backed by Y Combinator, is hiring its first product manager to shape the next wave of AI-powered engineering productivity tools. You’ll work closely with the founders in San Francisco, decide what to build, write specs, and prototype ideas with coding agents before a single line of code is written.

Our customers run monorepos with thousands of engineers; you’ll own the roadmap for Verify from discovery to launch and adoption, collaborating with platform, infra and