Founding Product Lead - AI Dev Tools & Strategy

HyperDev AI

South Africa

On-site

ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

2 days ago
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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.

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