Founding Director of Product, Enterprise AI Spend

Hivemind Capital Partners; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightyear is hiring a Director of Product, the founding product lead, to own the MVP and the roadmap from inception through to enterprise offerings. You will collaborate with FinOps, platform engineering, and finance leadership to justify and scale AI spend governance and model optimization.

You will recruit and lead the product and design team, shape telemetry and attribution schemes, and drive a multi-cloud, single-tenant deployment model with an emphasis on governance, privacy, and value

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management in a developer-infrastructure, FinOps or spend-management, observability, or fintech company.
• Shipped products in the request path or telemetry ingestion (APIs, gateways, observability).
• Experience defining outcome/productivity metrics for engineering or knowledge work.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap from MVP to Enterprise pricing and governance.
• Define Lightyear Pro and Enterprise with engineering teams.
• Lead measurement of token spend vs work outcomes with integrations (GitHub, Jira, Linear).
• Own data and index layer production and privacy/security posture as product requirements.
• Recruit and lead the founding product and design team.

Skills

Product management

End-to-end product

Spend management

Enterprise sales

Data-driven metrics

Technical literacy

Tools

OpenTelemetry

SDKs

APIs

Job description

Lightyear is hiring a Director of Product, the founding product lead, to own the MVP and the roadmap from inception through to enterprise offerings. You will collaborate with FinOps, platform engineering, and finance leadership to justify and scale AI spend governance and model optimization.

You will recruit and lead the product and design team, shape telemetry and attribution schemes, and drive a multi-cloud, single-tenant deployment model with an emphasis on governance, privacy, and value