Product Lead

Inception; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Inception is seeking a Head of Product Management to define the company’s product direction, reporting to the CEO and collaborating with the founding team. You will synthesize customer needs, ecosystem trends, and breakthrough AI research into products that change how millions work, create, and solve problems.

This is a data‑driven, customer‑centric leadership role that balances advanced AI exploration with pragmatic delivery, shipping 0→1 and scaling 1→N, and translating user needs into fast,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience in tech or AI-enabled products.
• Ability to translate customer needs into concrete product features.
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers, researchers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product lifecycle from strategy through launch.
• Lead user research and map AI model behaviours to use cases.
• Coordinate across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and GTM teams.
• Design evaluation systems and benchmarks to improve speed and quality.
• Set targets linking model capabilities to user needs.
• Partner with early customers to turn pilots into repeatable bets.

Skills

Product management

Technical prototyping

Cross-functional leadership

AI product experience

Education

BS/MS in CS/ML or related field

Job description

The Role

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and working closely with the founding team, this role provides an opportunity to own and define Inception’s product direction. As the Head of Product Management, you’ll synthesize customer needs, ecosystem trends, and breakthrough AI research into products that transform how millions of users work, create, and solve problems.

This role requires a leader who’s comfortable driving innovation in uncharted territory, where the very nature of what’s possible with AI is being redefined every day.

The ideal candidate is a data‑driven, customer‑centric product builder who operates comfortably at the intersection of advanced AI research and pragmatic product delivery. They have shipped 0→1 products, scaled 1→N, and are credible with highly technical teams. They bring strong judgment in fast‑changing environments, communicate crisply with executives and partners, and can translate subtle user needs into instant‑speed experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product lifecycle from strategy through launch
• Conduct user research and analyze performance metrics specific to AI model behaviors and map these onto emerging use cases
• Lead cross‑functional execution across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Go-to-Market teams.
• Help design evaluation systems and live benchmarks to track and improve speed and quality in target use cases
• Set performance targets that connect model capabilities to user needs.
• Partner with early customers to prove value in target use cases and convert pilots into repeatable product bets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Extensive track record of driving product initiatives in rapidly changing technical landscapes and translating large and diverse sets of feature requests and feedback into product feature definitions
• Comfortable reading and writing code: able to prototype, explore APIs, and work closely with engineering teams

Preferred Experience

• Experience conducting user research and interviews
• Deep knowledge of LLMs at the modeling or application layer
• Experience working in a startup and scaling products from early stage to growth phase