Junior Technical Product Manager – AI Products, Specs & APIs (Bay Area)

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; Los Altos (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) seeks an entry-level Associate Product Manager, Technical, to turn product concepts into engineering-ready specs and define AI features, working directly with the founders.

This on-site role offers steep learning and practical ownership: break briefs into builds, write feature stories, review data models and API contracts, and own quality of shipped features. 0–3 years experience welcome.

Qualifications

• 0 to 3 years in product, technical program management, software engineering or a related technical role (internships count).
• CS, engineering or equivalent technical degree from a top program; can read a codebase and reason about architecture.
• Has written structured technical documents (specs, design docs, research papers).
• Has built something under real constraints: startup internship, research lab or side project with users.
• Fluent with AI tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.

Responsibilities

• Break product briefs into components and scope what goes into each build.
• Write feature stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases and state transitions.
• Review data models and API contracts against the existing schema.
• Define what "correct" means for AI features such as document extraction and classification.
• Own product quality for shipped features.

Skills

Codebase reading

Spec writing

AI tools familiarity

Product thinking

Education

CS or equivalent degree

Tools

Data models review

API schemas

Job description

Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) | On-site | Full-time

MaxIT Consulting is looking for an Associate Product Manager, Technical to join a venture-backed, early-stage AI company building an AI-native operating system for drug development programs, already used by leading biopharma companies.

The Opportunity

This is the entry point for sharp technical people early in their careers: you will turn product concepts into engineering-ready specs, review data models and API contracts, and define what "correct" means for AI features, working directly with the founders. Steep learning curve and real scope.

Key Responsibilities

• Break product briefs into components and scope what goes into each build.
• Write feature stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases and state transitions.
• Review data models and API contracts against the existing schema.
• Define what "correct" means for AI features such as document extraction and classification.
• Own product quality for shipped features.

Required Qualifications

• 0 to 3 years in product, technical program management, software engineering or a related technical role (internships count).
• CS, engineering or equivalent technical degree from a top program; can read a codebase and reason about architecture.
• Has written structured technical documents (specs, design docs, research papers).
• Has built something under real constraints: startup internship, research lab or side project with users.
• Fluent with AI tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.

Nice to Have

• AI-native projects: LLM integrations, structured extraction, agentic workflows or evaluation harnesses.
• Production code or a technical project shipped end to end; experience at a startup under 50 people.

Work Arrangement

On-site role in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area); fully remote is not possible. Candidates must live in or relocate to the Bay Area and must already be authorized to work in the United States.