Product Manager

IP Author Inc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Remote-friendly US culture

Direct access to founders

Job summary

IP Author Inc. is seeking a Product Manager to own core parts of our SaaS product for IP professionals. You will collaborate with founders, engineering, design, and customers to shape the roadmap, ship features quickly, and build a product our users love to live in all day.

This role fits someone who thrives in ambiguity, wears multiple hats, and wants outsized impact at an early-stage company with remote-friendly culture in the US.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in product management for SaaS or B2B products.
• Experience owning a product/feature end-to-end.
• Comfortable working directly with engineers, designers, and GTM partners.
• Proven ability to run customer discovery and turn insights into actionable requirements.
• Strong written communication: you write clear specs and align stakeholders.
• Data-driven mindset with analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude, GA, etc.).
• Experience in legal tech, IP management, workflows-heavy enterprise products or early-stage startups is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the product lifecycle for key product areas: discovery, requirements, specs, delivery, and iteration.
• Talk to customers (IP counsels, patent attorneys, agents, R&D leaders) to understand workflows and pain points.
• Translate complex IP workflows into simple, intuitive product experiences.
• Create clear PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria with a prioritized backlog.
• Work with engineering to scope, plan, and ship high-quality features on time.
• Define success metrics, run experiments, and use data to drive decisions.
• Partner with Sales & Customer Success to support demos, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
• Help shape our product vision and roadmap as we grow from Seed to next stage.

Skills

Product management

Data-driven

Customer discovery

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Mixpanel

Amplitude

Google Analytics

Job description

IP Author (ipauthor.com) is building the modern operating system for patents and IP. We help in-house teams, law firms, and innovators manage the full patent lifecycle—strategy, drafting, prosecution, and portfolio analytics with intuitive workflows and intelligent automation. We’ve recently raised a Seed round and are now building out our core product and go-to-market teams.

The Role

We’re looking for a Product Manager who can own core parts of our SaaS product for IP professionals. You’ll work closely with our founders, engineering, design, and customers to shape the roadmap, ship features quickly, and build a product our users love to live in all day.

This is a great role for someone who likes wearing multiple hats, is comfortable with ambiguity, and wants to have outsized impact at an early-stage company.

What you’ll do

• Own the product lifecycle for key product areas: discovery, requirements, specs, delivery, and iteration.
• Talk to customers (IP counsels, patent attorneys, agents, R&D leaders) to deeply understand their workflows and pain points.
• Translate complex IP workflows into simple, intuitive product experiences.
• Create clear PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria and maintain a prioritized backlog.
• Work closely with engineering to scope, plan, and ship high-quality features on time.
• Define success metrics, run experiments, and use data to drive decisions.
• Partner with Sales & Customer Success to support demos, gather feedback, and drive adoption.
• Help shape our product vision and roadmap as we grow from Seed to the next stage.

What you’ve done

• 3–6 years of experience in product management for SaaS or B2B products.
• Strong experience owning a product/feature area end-to-end.
• Comfortable working directly with engineers, designers, and GTM partners.
• Proven ability to run customer discovery and turn insights into actionable requirements.
• Strong written communication: you write clear specs and can align stakeholders.
• Data-driven mindset and familiarity with analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude, GA, etc.).
• Experience in any of the following is a plus (but not required):
  • Legal tech, IP management, or working with patent professionals
  • Workflow-heavy enterprise products
  • Early-stage startup experience

Who you are

• User-obsessed and curious; you enjoy sitting with users and understanding their world.
• Biased toward action: you ship, learn, and iterate.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Low ego, high ownership. You care more about outcomes than titles.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Remote-friendly culture in the US with strong ownership.
• Chance to shape a category-defining product from the ground up.
• Direct access to founders and impact on company strategy.