Product Manager

Adaptive; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary plus meaningful equity

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match

Flexible PTO policy

Unlimited opportunities for professional growth

Job summary

Adaptive in New York, NY is seeking a Product Manager to lead product initiatives and drive the strategy for enterprise-grade AI agents. The role involves collaborating with design and engineering teams to launch impactful products, enhancing workflows in construction operations. Candidates should have 3-5 years of product management experience and a strong understanding of AI-native solutions. The benefits include a competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive health insurance in addition to flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as a product manager delivering complex technical products.
• Experience building or launching AI-native products; comfortable with model behavior.
• Strong technical acumen for effective collaboration with engineers.
• Exceptional product sense with empathy for enterprise requirements.
• Ownership mindset treating the product as your own.

Responsibilities

• Own product initiatives end-to-end focusing on real-world impact.
• Define and shape product vision by distilling user needs into a roadmap.
• Be the voice of the customer and run discovery calls.
• Build, launch, and iterate on new capabilities ensuring quality execution.
• Create clarity across design, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
• Set high standards for execution and usability across the platform.

Skills

Experience as a product manager

Building AI-native or workflow automation products

Technical acumen

Product sense and user empathy

High ownership mindset

Job description

About the role

Adaptive has spent four years building a robust, mission-critical platform now relied upon by over a thousand construction companies to run their project accounting and operations. On the strength of that foundation, we\'re moving upmarket: mid-market and enterprise construction companies are pulling hard for agentic AI capabilities, and we\'ve been investing heavily to deliver them.

We\'re looking for a Product Manager to help drive this next chapter of our growth, shipping reliable, enterprise-grade AI agents and expanding our platform to deliver industry-changing outcomes for the largest construction companies in the world. You\’ll work directly with our Product Lead & Head of Growth, partnering day-to-day with our design and engineering team of 20 to ship products end-to-end. If you\’ve been watching the rapid improvements in model capabilities and want to get direct experience building real agents that actually matter to real businesses, this role is for you.

We\'re building a suite of AI agents that automate the back-office work construction companies have been stuck doing manually for decades — things like compliance document tracking, subcontractor payment workflows, and field-to-office coordination. You\’ll run discovery for new agents, define what "reliable enough to ship" means, and partner with engineering to build evaluation frameworks that let us measure and improve agent performance over time. You\’ll also help shape how these agents fit into our broader platform as we scale from 1,000 to 10,000 customers.

Responsibilities

• Own product initiatives end-to-end, focusing on outcomes and real-world impact — not just outputs, timelines, or feature delivery


• Define and shape product vision and strategy by distilling user needs, workflow complexity, and business priorities into a clear, scalable roadmap.


• Be the voice of the customer. Run discovery calls, mine support tickets, and translate what you hear into clear problem statements — not feature requests.


• Build, launch, and iterate on new capabilities from 0→1 and from 1→scale, ensuring fast learning cycles and high-quality execution.


• Create clarity and alignment across design, engineering, and go-to-market teams


• Set a high bar for execution, usability, and coherence across the platform.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as a product manager with a proven history of delivering complex technical products


• Demonstrated experience building or launching AI-native or workflow automation products; comfortable reasoning about model behavior, edge cases, and tradeoffs


• Strong technical acumen—you can go deep with engineers on tactical decisions and translate them into customer value


• Exceptional product sense and user empathy, especially when balancing cutting-edge AI capabilities with enterprise requirements


• High ownership mindset — you treat the product like it\'s yours, move fast when it matters, and don\'t wait to be told what to do

What we offer

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity


• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance


• 401(k) match and flexible PTO policy


• A seat at the table in a rapidly scaling vertical AI startup


• Unlimited opportunities for professional growth and leadership

In-office mandate

• This role requires you to work Monday - Thursday in our sunny Union Square office.