Founding Product Manager (Applied AI) - Thorin

About the role

We’re hiring a Founding Product Manager to help define Thorin’s product from first principles. This is a core founding role, sitting at the intersection of AI systems, enterprise infrastructure, and real-world business operations. You will own product direction end-to-end: shaping Thorin’s primitives, deciding what the system should understand and automate, and ensuring that powerful agentic capabilities are exposed through products that enterprise leaders can trust, adopt, and scale.

Responsibilities

• Own Thorin’s product vision and roadmap across visibility, process modeling, guardrails, and agentic execution
• Define the core abstractions of the Thorin platform — what a “process,” “policy,” “metric,” and “agent” mean in a living enterprise system
• Partner deeply with AI Engineers to shape agent behavior, evaluation frameworks, reliability thresholds, and iteration loops
• Work hand-in-hand with Infrastructure leadership to ensure product decisions meet enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scalability requirements
• Collaborate with Product Engineers to design and ship intuitive user experiences on top of complex AI systems
• Lead customer discovery with design partners and early enterprise adopters, translating messy operational reality into clear product direction

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and owning complex software products, ideally in enterprise, platform, or infrastructure-adjacent domains
• Proven ability to operate as a founding or early-stage PM, defining product direction in the absence of precedent
• Strong technical fluency — you can reason about AI systems, distributed infrastructure, and product tradeoffs without needing abstraction layers. CS degree strongly preferred
• Experience working closely with engineers on systems where reliability, trust, and correctness matter
• Exceptional product judgment — you can turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into crisp product decisions
• Comfort with uncomfortable ambiguity — you enjoy operating without playbooks
• Clear, structured project management and communication skills — you can align engineers, customers, and leadership around a shared product vision

Qualifications

• Bonus: Experience with AI-native, agentic, or automation-heavy products
• Familiarity with enterprise workflows
• Background in process modeling, operational analytics, or enterprise systems of record
• Prior experience selling or deploying products into large enterprises

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity participation
• Flexible work schedule
• Professional development opportunities
• Health and wellness benefits

Pay

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications

Schedule

Full-time, remote position

Benefits

• Health and wellness benefits
• Equity participation
• Professional development opportunities

Company

Thorin is an applied AI company born out of 8VC’s Build program, focused on redefining how work gets done inside modern organizations. We build proactive, long-horizon AI agents that continuously observe work across Slack, email, meetings, and documents—and take action so nothing falls through the cracks. Unlike traditional AI tools that wait for prompts or rely on structured systems, Thorin creates a real-time digital twin of how a business actually operates, enabling automation, coordination, and insight over months and years.