Founding PM — AI Model Evaluation Platform

Vibehackers; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Housing stipend

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Lunch & dinner provided

Free snacks/coffee/drinks

401(k) plan

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Vals, a San Francisco startup, is hiring a founding Product Manager to own the Vals Smith roadmap and go-to-market for an enterprise product that evaluates which foundation model best fits a customer's use case.

You will run customer discovery and POCs, scope technical evaluations, shape pricing and packaging, and collaborate with engineering, design and GTM teams to drive activation and recurring revenue.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a technical, customer-facing role.
• Technical degree in CS, EE, or Math.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical engagements end-to-end.
• Strong written and verbal communication with senior buyers.
• Ability to work in-person in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for Vals Smith and prioritize discovery and delivery with design and engineering.
• Run discovery with design partners and ship onboarding, repo ingestion, results UX, integrations, and demo/POC environments.
• Serve as the technical counterpart in customer evaluations and POCs; scope engagements with customers’ CTOs or Heads of AI.
• Build and optimize the activation funnel from signup to recurring usage.
• Drive pricing and packaging decisions with founders and GTM; own usage instrumentation and analysis to inform pricing.

Skills

Product Roadmapping

Customer Discovery

Technical Scoping

Stakeholder Management

Cross-functional Collaboration

Prototyping

Data Instrumentation

Pricing & Packaging

Sales/POC Execution

Education

Technical degree (CS, EE, Math)

Job description

Vals, a San Francisco startup, is hiring a founding Product Manager to own the Vals Smith roadmap and go-to-market for an enterprise product that evaluates which foundation model best fits a customer's use case.

You will run customer discovery and POCs, scope technical evaluations, shape pricing and packaging, and collaborate with engineering, design and GTM teams to drive activation and recurring revenue.