Founding Product Manager

Crucibl; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid schedule

Health coverage

Daily lunch & snacks

Job summary

Crucibl is seeking a Product Lead to own the roadmap for our AI agent platform, turning client delivery insights into concrete product requirements. You will collaborate with engineering to ship features rapidly and define how our AI agents solve real business problems, building expertise across multiple verticals.

You will work directly with founders and Fortune 500 clients, shaping the product in a fast-growing, equity-rich environment with real revenue and high impact.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years in product management with direct business impact.
• End-to-end shipping experience with real roadmaps and outcomes.
• Experience with AI/ML products or data-heavy or enterprise B2B software.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for the AI agent platform aligned to real client engagements.
• Translate delivery pain points into concrete product requirements with strategists and clients.
• Partner with engineering to scope, sequence, and ship features rapidly.
• Define AI agent design and how it frames business problems.
• Set success metrics and build fast feedback loops.
• Develop domain depth in verticals like CPG, healthcare, financial services, or industrials.

Skills

Product management

AI/ML products

Enterprise B2B software

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Job description

Why Crucibl

Management consulting is a $400B industry built on selling intelligence-for-hire. The model is breaking - not slowly, but now. The biggest frontier in enterprise AI isn't better models. It's judgment at scale: taking the messy, ambiguous decisions that run 85% of the global economy and making them faster, crisper, and more defensible.

Crucibl is building that. We're profitable, growing fast, and delivering for Fortune 500 clients. We raised a $10M seed from Tier 1 VCs - then kept growing on revenue. The client pipeline is full. We're scaling to meet it.

The Role

You've shipped products that mattered — not just shipped features, but made the calls on what to build, why, and for whom. Now imagine doing that with a live Fortune 500 client pipeline giving you daily, high-stakes signal on what the product needs to become.

This is not a traditional PM role at a company still guessing at product-market fit. You'll sit at the intersection of client delivery and product strategy — turning what strategists learn in the field into a roadmap that ships fast, and turning what engineering builds into leverage that changes what delivery can promise clients.

Why Join Now

• The hardest part is done — we have real revenue, Fortune 500 clients, and a clear wedge into a massive market. You're joining to scale a winning hand, not to place a bet.
• Do the work you love, translating ambiguous problems into shipped product, without the parts you don't (bureaucracy, roadmap theater, distance from the customer)
• Shape a category — you're not managing one feature of an established product, you're defining what "AI-native strategy consulting" even means
• Work directly with founders — ex-Google and ex-KKR & ex-BCG who understand both the craft and the technology
• Outsized equity and ownership in a company that's already generating revenue and growing fast
  

What You'll Do

• Product Strategy: Own the roadmap for our AI agent platform, prioritizing against real client engagements rather than hypothetical use cases
• Client Signal Translation: Work directly with strategists and clients to turn delivery pain points and "we wish it could also do X" moments into concrete product requirements
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner daily with engineering to scope, sequence, and ship — you're close enough to the work to make fast calls, not just write tickets
• Agent Design: Define how our AI agents structure ambiguous business problems, execute analysis, and present recommendations — the product is the analytical framework, not just the interface
• Metrics & Iteration: Define what "good" looks like for an AI-delivered engagement and build the feedback loops to get there faster each time
• Domain Depth: Build real expertise in verticals like CPG, healthcare, financial services, or industrials, so your product decisions reflect what actually matters to clients in each space

You Might Be a Great Fit If

You have the product pedigree.

• 3–7 years in product management, ideally at a company where product decisions had direct, high-stakes business consequences
• Shipped end-to-end, not just supported — you've owned a roadmap, made prioritization calls, and lived with the outcomes
• Experience with AI/ML products, data-heavy products, or enterprise B2B software a strong plus

You want to build in the field, not from a spec doc.

• You want your roadmap shaped by real client conversations, not just a backlog of requests
• You're excited about AI and genuinely curious how these systems reason and fail — you don't need to write the model code, but you should want to understand it
• You want a company where your judgment changes the product, not just the release notes

You thrive in ambiguity.

• You take vague, high-stakes business problems and turn them into concrete product bets
• You make progress without waiting for perfect information
• You communicate proactively — with engineers when scope needs to shift, and with delivery teams when you spot a pattern worth building for
• Bias toward shipping over endless discovery

You're an exceptional communicator.

• You can turn client and delivery feedback into a crisp, prioritized narrative that engineering can act on
• Your written specs are clear, structured, and decision-ready
• You build trust quickly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Who You'll Work With

Our founders bring deep technology experience (Google-scale systems serving hundreds of millions of users) and domain expertise in high-stakes business decisions from top consulting and private equity firms. You'll be the connective tissue between these worlds, and between the company we are today and the company we're becoming.

Benefits & Perks

• Zero to Outcome: Seed stage means you shape the product, the culture, and the trajectory - not inherit them.
• See Your Work Matter: No abstractions, no layers - you'll see exactly what you built and what it changed.
• The People Around You: A small, elite team that will raise your game. We hire for exceptional, not just experienced.
• Meaningful Equity: Every offer includes a comprehensive salary and equity package.
• Hybrid Schedule: 3 days in-office with real flexibility around the rest. We care about output, not optics.
• Full Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision.
• Daily Lunch & Snacks: Fueled and focused, on us.

Work Authorization

Crucibl welcomes applications from candidates requiring visa sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility is determined during the interview process.

Crucibl is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire on merit and outcomes, and welcome applicants of every background.