Product Engineer

11x; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

11x in San Francisco seeks a Product Engineer who operates like a founder—owning opportunities, talking to users, prototyping fast, shipping relentlessly, and helping define the product.

This role crosses product, engineering, customer workflows, AI systems, and business strategy, delivering idea→prototype→shipped product in days, not quarters. Ideal candidates think in systems, move with urgency, and use AI leverage.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a software or product engineer
• Strong fullstack foundation with TS, React, NextJS, and NodeJS
• Own products or systems from concept through launch
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and move things forward

Responsibilities

• Own product surfaces end-to-end from identifying opportunities to shipping and iterating
• Work directly with customers, CSMs, and GTM teams to understand workflows and pain points
• Design and build fullstack features that drive user impact and business outcomes
• Rapidly prototype and test ideas, especially in ambiguous or zero-to-one spaces
• Help define how AI agents behave, reason, and deliver value in real-world workflows
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering to shape roadmap and prioritization
• Translate insights from user behavior, customer conversations, and data into product improvements
• Think beyond individual features and help shape product architecture and long-term platform direction
• Push ideas into reality quickly instead of over-optimizing in planning phases

Skills

Fullstack experience

Typescript

React

NextJS

NodeJS

Product ownership

User-centered design

Communication

Job description

We're looking for a Product Engineer who wants to operate like a founder.

Not someone who waits for specs and tickets. Someone who sees opportunities, talks to users, prototypes fast, ships relentlessly, and helps define what the product should become.

This is not a traditional engineering role. You'll work across product, engineering, customer workflows, AI systems, and business strategy. In many cases, you'll go from idea → prototype → shipped product in days, not quarters.

The best people for this role think in systems, move with urgency, and use AI as leverage.

Why This Role Is Different

The role of engineering is changing.

We Believe The Future Belongs To Engineers Who

• Think like product leaders
• Move with high agency and ownership
• Use AI tools fluently
• Care deeply about user outcomes
• Prototype and iterate rapidly
• Can operate across engineering, product, and business contexts

What You’ll Do

• Own product surfaces end-to-end, from identifying opportunities to shipping and iterating on solutions
• Work directly with customers, CSMs, and GTM teams to deeply understand workflows and pain points
• Design and build fullstack features that drive user impact and business outcomes
• Rapidly prototype and test new ideas, especially in ambiguous or zero-to-one spaces
• Help define how AI agents behave, reason, and deliver value in real-world workflows
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering to shape roadmap and prioritization
• Translate insights from user behavior, customer conversations, and data into product improvements
• Think beyond individual features and help shape product architecture and long-term platform direction
• Push ideas into reality quickly instead of over-optimizing in planning phases

Ideal Candidates Have

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, product engineer, or in a product-focused engineering role
• Strong fullstack foundation, especially with Typescript, React, NextJS, and NodeJS
• A track record of owning products or systems from concept through launch
• High agency — you naturally move things forward without waiting for direction
• Strong product intuition. You care deeply about user experience and business impact, not just technical correctness
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and figuring things out in real time
• Bias toward building and prototyping over endless planning
• Strong communication across engineering, product, GTM, and leadership
• Excitement about AI-native workflows and the future of product creation

Bonus

• Experience working closely with customers or in customer-facing roles
• Background in startups or zero-to-one product development
• Experience with AI/LLMs, prompt design, or building AI-powered products
• You've used tools like Cursor, Claude, Windsurf, v0, or similar heavily in your workflow
• You care deeply about product velocity and iteration speed

Compensation

Base salary range: $150,000 – $250,000

• Final offer will be based on a variety of factors, including role level, relevant experience, skills, and job-related expertise.

11x is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.