Founding Product Manager

Lightsage; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lightsage perks

Job summary

Lightsage is seeking a Founding Product Manager in San Francisco to define product strategy and lead execution across agent analytics, API performance, and content optimization. You will own the roadmap, work with founders, engineers, and customers, and ship products from discovery through adoption.

You will improve onboarding, data workflows, and product operations while translating customer feedback into decisive product moves in a hands-on startup environment.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience across product management, data operations, analytics, technical operations, or related roles in B2B software.
• Experience owning a technical or data-intensive product such as an API, integration platform, analytics product, query engine, developer tool, or workflow product.
• Track record of taking ambiguous customer problems from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Experience building or scaling a team, operating process, onboarding motion, or recurring customer workflow.
• Direct customer experience in requirements gathering, implementation, account ownership, or product feedback.
• Working knowledge of APIs, data integrations, analytics, data pipelines, and modern software delivery.
• Strong written communication and the ability to translate technical and customer requirements into clear product decisions.
• High ownership, dependable execution, and comfort operating in an early-stage startup.
• Experience with finance or software used by finance and operations teams is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and lead execution across agent analytics, API performance, content optimization, and customer-facing recommendations.
• Work directly with the founders, engineers, and customers to identify valuable problems, set priorities, write clear requirements, and ship products from discovery through adoption.
• Conduct customer discovery, own the roadmap, define product metrics, manage APIs and integrations, analyze customer and product data, and coordinate launches.
• Improve onboarding, recurring data workflows, internal product operations, and the processes used to turn customer feedback into product decisions.

Skills

Product management

Data operations

Analytics

Technical operations

APIs

Integrations

Data workflows

Tools

APIs

Integrations

Analytics

Data pipelines

Job description

Company Description

Lightsage builds infrastructure for the emerging agent economy, helping organizations track, benchmark, and improve how coding agents discover and use their APIs, CLIs, and MCP integrations. The platform is used by enterprises and high-growth startups to become the default tools recommended by software agents. Lightsage focuses on agent experience and measurable impact on developer and product adoption, with more information available at lightsage.com. The team also created DevToolArena.com, a public benchmark that ranks developer tools across areas such as authentication, inference, and voice using Claude Code and Codex.

Role Description

As the Founding Product Manager at Lightsage, you will define product strategy and lead execution across agent analytics, API performance, content optimization, and customer-facing recommendations. You will work directly with the founders, engineers, and customers to identify valuable problems, set priorities, write clear requirements, and ship products from discovery through adoption. Your day‑to‑day work will include conducting customer discovery, owning the roadmap, defining product metrics, managing APIs and integrations, analyzing customer and product data, and coordinating launches. You will also improve onboarding, recurring data workflows, internal product operations, and the processes used to turn customer feedback into product decisions. This role requires a hands‑on product generalist who is comfortable working across product management, data, customer operations, and technical implementation. Previous experience in the agent or AI market is not required. Experience with technical B2B products, APIs, integrations, analytics, and data workflows is more important. This is a full‑time, on‑site role based in San Francisco, CA, with significant ownership and direct influence over Lightsage's product direction.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience across product management, data operations, analytics, technical operations, or related roles in B2B software.
• Experience owning a technical or data‑intensive product such as an API, integration platform, analytics product, query engine, developer tool, or workflow product.
• Track record of taking ambiguous customer problems from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Experience building or scaling a team, operating process, onboarding motion, or recurring customer workflow.
• Direct customer experience in requirements gathering, implementation, account ownership, or product feedback.
• Working knowledge of APIs, data integrations, analytics, data pipelines, and modern software delivery.
• Strong written communication and the ability to translate technical and customer requirements into clear product decisions.
• High ownership, dependable execution, and comfort operating in an early‑stage startup.
• Experience with finance or software used by finance and operations teams is helpful.