Founding Product Manager

Motion Recruitment; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Stock Options

Relocation support up to $15K

Travel: 1-2 trips per quarter

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Founding Product Manager for an AI-driven architecture platform with hybrid work in Boston, MA or New York, NY. You will own the product strategy, roadmap, and hands-on leadership to scale a 2D/3D design ideation canvas integrated with industry tools like Revit and SketchUp.

You’ll work directly with the CEO, partner with architects and universities, and build a team as the company grows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Built products 0-to-1 and helped scale them at startups.
• Track record of shipping products that grew with the company through fundraising and scale.
• Comfortable wearing many hats in a fast-moving AI startup.
• Able to hold your own with engineers and handle technical tradeoffs.
• Experience building out a product function from scratch.
• AEC or architecture-adjacent experience (e.g., Figma, Miro, Autodesk, Flora).
• Prior experience leading a product team.
• Experience conducting market and competitive research on AI and design tools.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Roadmap: design and own the roadmap for the AI-powered 2D/3D design ideation platform, from early ideas through 3D models and future video capabilities.
• Engineering Collaboration: work with the engineering team day to day on progress and check-in points, and resolve technical tradeoffs.
• Customer Discovery: meet with architecture firms and universities to understand their workflows and define what the product should become.
• Market and Competitive Research: bring insights and new ideas on AI and design tools back to the team.
• Team Building: build and scale the product team as the company grows, with CEO coaching on the architecture side.

Skills

Product management

Startup experience

Roadmap ownership

Engineering collaboration

Team leadership

Market research

Job description

Founding Product Manager: AI for Architecture (Boston, MA / New York, NY)

We're building the AI canvas that will reshape how the world gets built, and you'd be the person who builds the product function behind it. This is a rare chance to own the roadmap and the strategy at a company with real traction: 500k+ generations a month across top architecture firms, $1M+ saved on visualization costs by a leading practice in six months, and 75% faster concept iteration for design teams.

Our platform gives architects one place to ideate, design, visualize, and collaborate, from a mood image to massing to photoreal renders. It brings 90+ leading AI models (image, video, and 3D) under a single subscription. It integrates with Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Speckle, and Pinterest, and includes an agentic chat that researches, builds, and iterates inside the canvas. It is enterprise-ready, with SOC2 alignment, SSO, firm-wide dashboards, and a firm commitment never to retrain models on customer data.

You'll work directly with the CEO, who will personally coach you on the architecture side of the business. You'll also spend time with top global practices and universities, and you'll build and scale a product team as the company grows. If you want to take a product from early traction through fundraising and scale, with a lot of ownership and a steep learning curve, this is the role.

Team Size: 25 employees | Total Funding: $1M+

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally across more than one company
• Built products 0-to-1 and helped scale them at startups (ideally Seed/Series A through Series C or D)
• Track record of shipping products that grew alongside a company through fundraising and scale
• Comfortable wearing many hats in a fast-moving AI startup
• Able to hold your own with engineers and handle technical tradeoffs and pushback
• Experience building out a product function from scratch

Desired Skills & Experience

• AEC or architecture-adjacent experience (e.g., Figma, Miro, Autodesk, Flora)
• Prior experience leading a product team
• Experience conducting market and competitive research on AI and design tools

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• 35% AI image and video generation
• 35% 3D models and integrations (Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Speckle)
• 30% Collaboration and enterprise features (annotation, SSO, dashboards)

Daily Responsibilities

• 30% Product Strategy and Roadmap: design and own the roadmap for the AI-powered 2D/3D design ideation platform, from early ideas through 3D models and future video capabilities. Drive prioritization and long-term strategy rather than one-off feature builds.
• 40% Engineering Collaboration: work with the engineering team day to day on progress and check-in points, and resolve technical tradeoffs.
• 15% Customer Discovery: meet with architecture firms and universities to understand their workflows and define what the product should become.
• 15% Market and Competitive Research: bring insights and new ideas on AI and design tools back to the team.
• XX% Team Building: build and scale the product team as the company grows, with CEO coaching on the architecture side.

The Offer

• Salary: $200K-$235K
• Bonus eligible
• Hybrid role based in Boston, MA (HQ, about 80% preferred) or New York, NY. For the first ~3 months, you'll be in the office 3-4 days per week for CEO coaching, then 2-3 days per week.
• Relocation support of up to $15K for moves to the Boston area
• Travel: 1-2 trips per quarter

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time
• Stock Options

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.