Senior Product Manager

Lightyear; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Flexible PTO

13 paid holidays

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Equity ownership

Job summary

Lightyear is hiring a Senior Product Manager to define and deliver flagship features for its enterprise telecom platform. You’ll bridge customers, GTM, and engineering to scope, design, and ship critical capabilities at light speed.

As an early-stage company, you’ll shape the product that customers need and love, owning vision, roadmaps, and a data-driven approach to prioritization. The role is fully remote with competitive cash and equity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in enterprise or consumer software as a PM or engineer.
• Strong customer empathy and problem-space understanding.
• Experience taking product or processes from 0 to 1.
• Familiarity with software development practices to deploy apps and data systems.
• Some design skill with tools such as Figma or Sketch is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision for key areas of Lightyear’s platform.
• Engage with customer and sales to define and optimize feature requirements.
• Coordinate with engineering on feasibility, sprint planning, and delivery.
• Create a first-class UI/UX experience with internal design resources.
• Help define short, medium, and long-term roadmaps.
• Help implement data-driven feature discovery and prioritization.
• Coordinate with GTM and Ops to pilot with prospective customers.
• Be a product evangelist and develop collateral to market progress.

Skills

4+ yrs exp

Customer focus

0→1 product work

Dev practices

Design basics

Telecom familiarity

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Job description

Total Cash Compensation $160K – $200K Offers Equity

The Company: Lightyear https://lightyear.ai is building Telecom’s System of Action: an agentic platform that is revolutionizing the telecom management experience for hundreds of enterprises. Lightyear’s AI platform helps enterprise IT teams automate telecom procurement, network inventory management, telecom bill payment, and much more, and is utilized by companies including Honeywell, Alo Yoga, Palo Alto Networks, and Okta. Lightyear has raised $65M (Series B stage) from the first investors in Roblox, Discord, Coupang, Robinhood, and Flexport.

The Position: As a Senior PM at Lightyear, you will be responsible for researching, scoping, designing, and implementing several of our key software features and tools that are disrupting enterprise telecom. A Lightyear PM wears many hats: feature scoping, design, sprint lead, customer growth / conversion (and potentially more based on how you set your role). You will sit at the intersection of customers, GTM, and engineering - coordinating the conception and delivery of our most important product ideas. We’re an early stage company, so your position will play a heavy role in defining a product that customers both need and love. This position will be full-time and salaried with competitive cash and equity compensation. The total cash compensation range is estimated to be within $160-200k. This position is fully remote.

Responsibilities for this role include:

• Own the product vision for several key areas of Lightyear’s platform
• Engage with the customer and sales to define and optimize requirements for features
• Coordinate with engineering on feasibility, sprint planning, and shipping product
• Create a first-class UI / UX experience (with help from internal design resources)
• Help define the short, medium, and long term roadmap
• Help implement a data-driven feature discovery and prioritization process
• Coordinate with GTM and Operations to concept and drive success of pilots with prospective customers
• Be a product evangelist - develop product collateral to market product progress

Our ideal candidate:

• 4+ years experience working with enterprise or consumer software technologies as a product manager or software engineer
• Has intense curiosity and passion to deeply understand the customer and problem space, with willingness to dive in the weeds throughout the process
• Experience and enthusiasm taking product or processes from 0 to 1
• Familiarity with software dev practices used to deploy applications and data systems
• Some design skill (bonus: familiarity with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, etc.)
• Bonus: Familiarity with the telecom industry

Benefits and Perks

• Remote-First & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the flexibility to manage your schedule around work and life. We value trust, ownership, and results.
• Flexible PTO: Paid time off without accrual limits, based on manager approval and a culture of trust and accountability.
• 13 Paid Holidays: Enjoy 12 company holidays plus one additional holiday selected by the team through our annual Battle of the Holidays.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% of base plan premiums covered for employees and 80% for dependents, plus FSAs and $50,000 in life insurance coverage.
• 401(k) with Company Match: Start contributing with your first paycheck. Lightyear matches 50% of contributions up to 3% of your salary.
• Equity Ownership: Stock options vesting over four years, with opportunities for additional grants based on performance.
• Biannual Team Gatherings and Hackathons: Connect with the entire team twice a year in different cities and with the EPD team for hackathons twice a year!