Technical Product Associate — AI & Data Specs

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; Los Altos (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) seeks an entry-level Associate Product Manager, Technical, to turn product concepts into engineering-ready specs and define AI features, working directly with the founders.

This on-site role offers steep learning and practical ownership: break briefs into builds, write feature stories, review data models and API contracts, and own quality of shipped features. 0–3 years experience welcome.

Qualifications

• 0 to 3 years in product, technical program management, software engineering or a related technical role (internships count).
• CS, engineering or equivalent technical degree from a top program; can read a codebase and reason about architecture.
• Has written structured technical documents (specs, design docs, research papers).
• Has built something under real constraints: startup internship, research lab or side project with users.
• Fluent with AI tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.

Responsibilities

• Break product briefs into components and scope what goes into each build.
• Write feature stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases and state transitions.
• Review data models and API contracts against the existing schema.
• Define what "correct" means for AI features such as document extraction and classification.
• Own product quality for shipped features.

Skills

Codebase reading

Spec writing

AI tools familiarity

Product thinking

Education

CS or equivalent degree

Tools

Data models review

API schemas

Job description

MaxIT Consulting in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) seeks an entry-level Associate Product Manager, Technical, to turn product concepts into engineering-ready specs and define AI features, working directly with the founders.

This on-site role offers steep learning and practical ownership: break briefs into builds, write feature stories, review data models and API contracts, and own quality of shipped features. 0–3 years experience welcome.