Product Manager

Apera; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Base salary

Job summary

Apera, a seed-stage startup building AI for autonomous industrial operations in the SF Bay Area, seeks a Product Manager to join early product team.

You will own the platform roadmap end to end—from deployment learnings to PRDs, prioritization, and GA release—interfacing with AI/ML features and architecture-level decisions.

2-5 years of enterprise or platform product experience, strong technical fluency, and a customer-facing background are required; growth potential as the team scales.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience on an enterprise or platform product.
• Exposure to AI/ML features (agentic workflows, LLMs, RAG) is preferred.
• Strong technical fluency; comfortable reading architecture diagrams and participating in design reviews.
• Customer-facing background is desired.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform roadmap end to end—from deployment learnings to PRDs, prioritization, and GA release.
• Make architecture-level product decisions at the intersection of AI, industrial operations, and business.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and C-suite stakeholders in a fast-growing seed-stage environment.

Skills

Product management

Enterprise product

AI/ML exposure

Technical fluency

Customer-facing

Job description

We're recruiting a Product Manager for a seed-stage start-up building AI for autonomous industrial operations.

The company is backed by some of the world's top VCs and the founder has 10+ years in industrial AI. They're building out their founding product team in the Bay Area and need an early PM to help define what gets built and how it scales. You'd be one of the first product hires, so there's real scope for growth and progression as the team builds out.

As Product Manager you'll own the platform roadmap end to end: from customer deployment learnings through to PRDs, prioritization, and GA release. You'll work at the intersection of AI, industrial operations, and business - making architecture-level product decisions, not just running a feature factory.

We're looking for a PM with 2-5 years' experience on an enterprise or platform product, ideally with exposure to AI/ML features (agentic workflows, LLMs, RAG). You'll need strong technical fluency - comfortable reading architecture diagrams and holding your own in engineering design reviews - plus a customer-facing background.

You'd be joining a small team with no layers and direct access to the CPO and CTO - a rare chance to get in early at a company solving real, physical problems.

• Generous package on offer - base, bonus and equity.

Based in the SF Bay Area. You'll need to be eligible to work in the US - US citizens or Green Card holders only, please.