Product Manager

Mantle; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Fridays

Job summary

Mantle is building an AI-enabled product for families managing aging parents. We are seeking a Product Manager to partner with founders, design, and engineering to decide what we build and in what order.

This is hands-on, early-stage PM work focusing on understanding user problems, writing sharp specs, and shipping solutions quickly. You will own discovery-to-launch cycles in a fast-paced startup setting.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience, ideally on consumer products.
• Track record of shipping consumer products end-to-end, from discovery to launch to iteration.
• Experience working closely with engineering and design in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort making data-informed decisions.
• AI-savvy with hands-on experience building AI-powered product experiences.

Responsibilities

• Product discovery: build deep understanding of the families Mantle serves.
• Product strategy and roadmap: translate vision into clear priorities and tradeoffs.
• AI product experiences: define how Mantle’s agent behaves and earns trust.
• Launch and iteration: bring features from concept to launch and measure results.
• Product analytics: establish metrics and instrumentation to track performance.
• Operating cadence: coordinate product, design and engineering planning and delivery.

Skills

Product management

Consumer products

Data-driven decisions

AI tools (LLMs)

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AI tooling

Job description

About Mantle

We’re building an AI agent to help families support their aging parents (origin story here).

Over 40M “sandwich generation” Americans currently manage their parent’s affairs. Keeping mom/dad safe and supported is like a second job: it’s time-consuming, stressful and on top of their already busy lives. We believe that managing our parents’ affairs should feel under control, easier and lower stress.

Co-founded by serial entrepreneur partners including Ted Zagat, who sold his previous businesses to Slack (announcement here) and Google (Zagat restaurant guides).

The Role

We are looking for a Product Manager to help turn Mantle’s vision into a product families love. This is a high-impact role for someone who wants to shape a consumer AI product from its earliest days. You will work side-by-side with the founders, design and engineering to decide what we build, why, and in what order.

This is a role for a builder. In the early days, product management at Mantle is less about roadmaps and process and more about getting close to families, finding the problems that matter most, and shipping solutions quickly. It’s not just about strategy; it’s about the unglamorous work of talking to users, writing crisp specs, triaging bugs and making sure nothing falls through the cracks between idea and launch.

What You’ll Build

• Product discovery: Build a deep, ongoing understanding of the families we serve and the problems that matter most to them.

• Product strategy and roadmap: Translate our vision into clear priorities, and make the tradeoffs that keep the team focused.

• AI product experiences: Define how our agent behaves, what it does on a family’s behalf, and how it earns their trust.

• Launch and iteration: Take features from concept to launch, then measure, learn and improve them.

• Product analytics: Establish the metrics and instrumentation that tell us what’s working and what isn’t.

• Operating cadence: Shape how product, design and engineering plan, prioritize, communicate and deliver.

Required Experience

• 4+ years of product management experience, ideally on consumer products

• Track record of shipping consumer products end-to-end, from discovery to launch to iteration

• Experience working closely with engineering and design in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment

• Strong analytical skills and comfort making data-informed decisions

• AI adept: savvy with AI tools (LLMs, agents), and hands-on experience building AI-powered product experiences

Ideal Background

• Early-stage startup experience where you wore many hats

• Experience building consumer products in sensitive, high-trust categories

• Strong product sense and a clear instinct for what matters to users

• Comfortable prototyping your own ideas with modern AI and design tools

• Mission-driven: You care deeply about helping families navigate the complexities of aging

• Nice to have, but not required: experience with FinTech

Who Thrives Here

• Builders: You love creating things from scratch and taking full ownership

• User-obsessed: You start every decision with the people we serve

• Founder-minded: You think like an owner and care deeply about company outcomes

• AI-forward: You embrace modern AI

• Strategic and pragmatic: You see the big picture but are also willing to do the manual work required to get there

• Great collaborator: You foster great working relationships

• Autonomous: You thrive with minimal direction

• Mission-driven: You care about what we’re building

What You’ll Get

• Meaningful work: Build a consumer product that will make a real difference in the lives of millions of families, with real ownership, fast pace, and huge financial potential

• Founding scope: Shape our product strategy and culture from the very beginning

• Partnership with founders: Work closely with Mantle’s co-founders and other company leaders

• Learning & growth: Opportunity to build a category-defining company from the ground up

• Real ownership: Your decisions will shape our product, business and culture

• Remote Fridays: Work from home every Friday. Monday through Thursday, we build together in person in San Francisco