Founding Product Lead – Enterprise AI Spend & Value

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity component

Bonuses / Stock options

Job summary

Lightyear is building the operating system for enterprise AI consumption. The Director of Product will own the MVP, define the roadmap and recruit the founding product and design team to scale Lightyear from 0 to 1.

You will align FinOps, platform engineering, and finance stakeholders, driving the product from concept to a scalable enterprise solution. You will partner with CFOs, engineering leaders, and the CTO to justify AI spend, define governance, and shape a product function that supports

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management or equivalent leadership experience in a developer-infrastructure, FinOps, or spend-management context.
• Shipped end-to-end products in a 0-to-1 or early-stage environment.
• Experience influencing and selling to FinOps, platform engineering and finance buyers.
• Defined or shipped outcome/productivity metrics in engineering or knowledge work.
• Deep understanding of provider pricing, token metering and model routing.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap and define the MVP and build sequence for Lightyear's modular platform.
• Define Lightyear Pro and Enterprise with clear telemetry, admin controls and governance rules.
• Lead the measurement pillar linking token spend to work outcomes across teams.
• Own token expense-management workflow as a differentiating product hook.
• Lead privacy, data residency and single-tenant deployment considerations for enterprise users.
• Recruit and manage the founding product and design team and establish discovery/release processes.

Skills

Product management

End-to-end ownership

FinOps / Cloud cost management

AI infrastructure awareness

Communication skills

Founder mindset

Design-partner / customer discovery

OpenTelemetry

SDK instrumentation

Tools

OpenTelemetry

SDK instrumentation

Job description

Lightyear is building the operating system for enterprise AI consumption. The Director of Product will own the MVP, define the roadmap and recruit the founding product and design team to scale Lightyear from 0 to 1.

You will align FinOps, platform engineering, and finance stakeholders, driving the product from concept to a scalable enterprise solution. You will partner with CFOs, engineering leaders, and the CTO to justify AI spend, define governance, and shape a product function that supports