Founding Product Manager, Growth
The Founding Product Manager, Growth at Confidential Client is responsible for optimizing the customer journey from initial evaluation to successful deployment of AI agent products. This role involves identifying and removing barriers in onboarding and activation, working closely with customers and cross-functional teams to enhance product experiences, and building internal tools to streamline processes. The position offers a unique opportunity to impact enterprise AI adoption by improving conversion and time to value through data-driven and customer-centric product management.
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About the Role
Careertakes is partnering with a confidential client to hire a Founding Product Manager, Growth based in New York, NY. This is a hands-on product role focused on improving evaluation, onboarding, and initial activation for a technical, enterprise-facing AI product. You will work directly with prospects, customer-facing teams, design, and engineering to remove blockers and shorten time-to-value.
What You’ll Do
- Own the evaluation & onboarding roadmap — prioritize the biggest barriers between qualified interest and a first successful deployment.
- Stay close to customers — join evaluations and onboarding sessions to learn what buyers and admins need to prove and where users get stuck.
- Ship better experiences — collaborate with Design, Engineering, and core PMs to improve setup flows, guided evaluations, and proof-of-value touchpoints.
- Build internal tools & AI workflows — prototype and launch tools that help Sales and deployment teams prepare evaluations and reduce repetitive manual work.
- Measure impact — instrument funnels, query data, run cohort comparisons, and use qualitative evidence to improve conversion and reduce time to value.
What You’ll Bring
- Direct ownership experience for onboarding, activation, or conversion in a software product — be ready to explain the original challenge, what you shipped, and the measurable result.
- Experience building internal tools or automations that were adopted by colleagues — you can demo or clearly describe an example and its impact.
- Strong mix of customer interviews and data analysis — able to investigate funnels, surface hypotheses, and add qualitative context when needed.
- Comfort building prototypes and using AI tools to accelerate experiments; able to take concepts far enough for user testing and then partner with engineers for production.
- Proven ability to make progress in ambiguous situations, communicate across functions, and iterate after launch.
- Experience with enterprise SaaS, technical products, or a sales-assisted customer journey is highly relevant.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Hands-on experience with AI workflows, agent-based products, or developer-oriented security/governance platforms.
- Background working with Forward Deployed Engineering, Sales Engineering, or customer success teams on technical evaluations.
- Familiarity with metrics and tooling for measuring activation, time-to-value, and conversion.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and equity commensurate with experience and customer-facing responsibilities.
- Paid time off, paid sick leave, and parental leave.
- Professional development budget for conferences, courses, and certifications related to AI and enterprise software.
- Top-tier equipment allowance.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Frequent customer interaction and an opportunity to shape early product experiences used by enterprise teams.
Location & Employment Type
- Location: New York, NY (on-site / hybrid as required by the hiring team)
- Employment Type: Full-time (direct hire by the confidential client)
How Careertakes Works
Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform facilitating this search. We screen candidates and share qualified profiles with our confidential client. If you advance in the process, you will interview and be hired directly by the confidential client.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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