Founding Product Lead - AI Dev Tools & Strategy

HyperDev AI; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

HyperDev AI is seeking a Founding Product Lead to shape the platform for developers. You will own product strategy, customer discovery, and the roadmap, partnering with engineering and design to ship useful AI-powered tooling.

You’ll talk to users, map workflows, write briefs, and drive decisions with a founder’s sense of ownership. You’ll balance ambitious vision with practical delivery and a focus on trust and usability.

Qualifications

• Experience taking a software product from idea through launch and iteration.
• Own product decisions and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Hands-on customer discovery and close collaboration with engineering and design.
• Strong technical fluency to discuss APIs, integrations, architecture with developers.
• Practical experience building AI-powered products, with an understanding of LLMs.
• Strong product judgment and attention to user experience, supported by evidence.
• Ability to move work forward independently in an early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Define product direction with co-founders and translate into a focused roadmap.
• Build direct relationships with developers and early customers for feedback.
• Turn ideas into briefs, user journeys, and acceptance criteria for engineering and design.
• Prototype experiences, resolve trade-offs, and keep delivery focused.
• Define success metrics across activation, engagement, retention, and conversion.
• Help hire and grow the product team and establish a collaborative culture in a small team.

Skills

Product leadership

Customer discovery

Engineering collaboration

Technical fluency

AI products

Data-driven

Decision making

Tools

TypeScript

React

Python

LLM APIs

Job description

HyperDev AI is seeking a Founding Product Lead to shape the platform for developers. You will own product strategy, customer discovery, and the roadmap, partnering with engineering and design to ship useful AI-powered tooling.

You’ll talk to users, map workflows, write briefs, and drive decisions with a founder’s sense of ownership. You’ll balance ambitious vision with practical delivery and a focus on trust and usability.