Technical Product Manager

Anara; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium healthcare

Flexible working hours

Office with marina view

Job summary

A pioneering research tool company is looking for its first product manager in San Francisco. You will collaborate directly with the founder to develop innovative tools that enhance how researchers utilize AI in their work. Candidates should have a strong engineering background, experience with product management, and a proven ability to build successful products. Join a small, ambitious team as you help us scale from $10M to $100M in revenue. This is an in-person role with excellent benefits and opportunities for visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in product management and engineering, including at least 1 year as a professional engineer.
• Experience building and scaling a product to thousands of users.
• Fast-paced startup experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform user discovery through interviews and data analysis.
• Translate AI advances into practical features.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering team to enhance product.
• Reduce friction in user workflows.

Skills

Product management

Engineering background

User experience optimization

Data analysis

Customer feedback interpretation

Job description

$150K - $200K // 0.50% - 1.00% // San Francisco

Role

As our first and only product manager, you’ll work alongside our founder to drive the evolution of Anara and shape how researchers work with AI. You’ll build novel tools that will transform how scientific discoveries are made for decades to come.

As model intelligence accelerates, the ultimate form factor of agents for scientific research remains unwritten. We’re looking for a product manager who combines deep technical understanding, genuine love for science, and strong product intuition. You should be equally comfortable discussing customer feedback with world‑class researchers, debugging user workflows with engineers, and presenting product strategy to the team.

Your work might include:

• Performing discovery through user interviews, session replay, data analysis, etc. and present findings to the team.
• Translating cutting‑edge AI advances into practical features for researchers.
• Surfacing trends and insights from customer feedback to the team at large to inform product choices.
• Optimizing existing flows to reduce friction, lower churn and increase conversion.
• Working closely with the engineering team to ensure Anara remains the best way to do scientific research with AI.

You’re freezes a good fit if:

• You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder. Product at Anara moves lightning fast. We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months.
• Have a combined 2+ years in product management and engineering, including at least 1 year as a professional engineer.
• You have world‑class design and product taste.
• Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g., a side project or open‑source project).
• Have worked in a high‑growth, fast‑paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight.

Anara

Our goal is to achieve 100 years of scientific progress in the next 10 years. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for industry researchers and graduate students, using a combination of inventive research, design and engineering.

In two years, we’ve grown to millions of users across the world’s most ambitious academic labs and R&D teams, we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, and we raised $3M from Y Combinator and the founders of GitHub and Reddit.

We’re a small, tight‑knit team of 10 people with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+.

This is an in‑person opportunity in San Francisco.

We’re more than happy to sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we'll work with an immigration attorney to make sure everything goes smoothly.

We offer premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.), flexible working hours and office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge.