Founding Product Manager

About the role

This role serves as the Founding Product Manager for Listen Labs, a platform that leverages AI to accelerate customer research and decision-making processes. Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll be responsible for shaping the product roadmap, ensuring it aligns with both customer needs and business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Own the evolution of Listen’s self-serve motion alongside our enterprise business

• Define high-leverage self-serve use cases and ideal customer journeys

• Identify and address friction points across onboarding, activation, and usage

• Drive product changes that unlock a scalable path to $[XX]M+ in self-serve revenue

• Build and scale Listen’s participant network

• Design systems for participant acquisition, retention, and quality

• Develop matching logic to ensure the best-fit participants for each research project

• Improve the reliability and speed of access to high-quality research participants

• Help evolve beyond founder-led product development through sharper prioritization

• Deeply understand customer needs and translate them into clear product bets

• Organize and synthesize inbound requests across customers and internal teams

• Set sequencing and tradeoffs to maximize impact

• Implement lightweight product processes that increase velocity without adding bureaucracy

Requirements

Experienced in product management, typically 5–8+ years, with a track record of launching successful products. Strong strategic thinking paired with practical execution skills, proven ability to take ownership and drive broad outcomes with limited structure. A passion for building impactful products and a bias for action. Technically fluent, comfortable working closely with engineering teams, and able to understand and synthesize technical tradeoffs. Data-driven and user-centric, using metrics, experimentation, and user insight to guide decisions while balancing long-term strategy with short-term learning. Excellent communicator, effectively aligning internal teams and presenting strategy to stakeholders across engineering, research, leadership, and external partners. Quick learner comfortable navigating evolving product domains such as AI, data pipelines, dev tools, or RL environments.

Qualifications

Strong strategic thinking paired with practical execution skills. Proven ability to take ownership and drive broad outcomes with limited structure. A passion for building products with real impact and a bias for action. Life at Listen Labs offers competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage, flexible time off to recharge, and an environment that values balance and trust. Room to grow as an early member of the team, taking on new responsibilities, shaping processes from scratch, and growing alongside the company.

Skills

Product management, strategic thinking, execution, customer-centric approach, technical fluency, communication, adaptability, and a bias for action.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage, flexible time off, and an environment that values balance and trust.

Pay

The base range for this role is $175,000 - $280,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, experience, and work location.

Schedule

Full-time position.