Technical Product Manager

Bobyard; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

In-person in San Francisco

Job summary

Bobyard is building a model-powered estimation platform in San Francisco. You will own the product surface end to end, from customer problem to shipped feature, and serve as the point of contact for engineering and customers on why the model behaves as it does.

You will read eval reports and confusion matrices, defend tradeoffs, and turn ambiguous customer feedback into concrete model or UX improvements. Daily collaboration with CV and ML engineers is required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in product with ownership of a model-powered feature.
• Fluent in model evaluation — precision, recall, false positives/negatives.
• Shipping 0-to-1 or major ML/CV-driven iteration in B2B SaaS.
• Comfortable being the last line of defense on “will this model actually work” for customers and execs.
• Fast learner — capable to pick up construction domain within 30 days.
• Ships fast, iterates in public, avoids unnecessary process.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for a model-powered product surface, from customer problem to shipped feature.
• Read eval reports and confusion matrices well enough to challenge CV engineers, not just relay conclusions.
• Make and defend accuracy, speed, and cost tradeoffs with engineers and customers.
• Build and maintain eval sets that keep the team honest about model performance.
• Turn ambiguous customer complaints into specific, testable model or UX fixes.
• Work daily with CV and ML engineers as a peer who understands the model.

Tools

Figma

Job description

About Bobyard

Construction is a $2T industry running on PDFs, rulers, and 1990s software. The biggest choke point is the cost estimate. Takeoffs are manual, slow, and one mistake blows millions. We use computer vision and NLP to read drawings like an expert estimator, 10x faster and with fewer mistakes. We're backed by 8VC, Primary, and Pear.

About the role

You’ll own a model‑powered product surface end to end: not writing specs and handing them off, but being the person engineering and customers both come to when the question is "why did the model do that, and what do we do about it."

What you’ll do

• Own the roadmap for a model‑powered product surface, from customer problem to shipped feature
• Read eval reports and confusion matrices well enough to argue with the CV engineers, not just relay their conclusions
• Make and defend accuracy/speed/cost tradeoffs — in the room with engineering, and directly with customers
• Build and maintain eval sets that keep the team honest about model performance
• Turn ambiguous customer complaints ("it missed something") into a specific, testable model or UX fix
• Work daily with our CV and ML engineers as a peer who understands the model, not a translator layer

What we’re looking for

• 4+ years in product, with real ownership of a model‑powered feature (not just "worked with" a data science team)
• Fluent in model evaluation — precision, recall, false positive/negative tradeoffs, without needing it explained
• Has shipped 0‑to‑1 or a major iteration on an ML/CV‑driven product in B2B SaaS
• Comfortable being the last line of defense on "will this model actually work" for customers and execs
• Fast learner — no construction background required, but you’ll need to be dangerous in it within 30 days
• Ships fast, iterates in public, doesn’t hide behind process

Nice to have

• Prior experience specifically in computer vision (vs. NLP/LLM‑only)
• Background at a company like Scale AI, Labelbox, Samsara, Matterport, Cape Analytics, or DroneDeploy
• Comfortable in Figma and reading code, even if you don’t ship it

What we offer

• $160K–$180K base + equity
• Full‑time, in‑person in San Francisco — we build together

Comp Philosophy

We pay to win. Bobyard targets competitive top‑of‑market compensation because we hire people who ship and drive real impact — and we aim to reward that, including through variable pay tied to performance. Individual compensation is determined by role, experience, and contribution, at Bobyard’s discretion.