Product Lead, Explore

About the role

The Product Lead will own the Explore product, end-to-end, covering transfer pathways, rules management, articulation, prospective student profiles, and admissions workflows. The roadmap is wide open, with no inherited backlog to manage.

Responsibilities

• Define the product problem from nothing and build conviction around a solution.
• Work daily with engineering teams in the US and Pakistan, thinking through architecture, trade-offs, and sequencing.
• Find common threads in transfer rules and requirements across universities and design solutions that work across many schools.
• Hold the immediate build and the long-term platform vision at the same time.

Requirements

• 6+ years of PM experience with demonstrable growth in scope and ownership over time.
• True 0→1 experience — defined a product problem from nothing, built conviction around a solution, and shipped something real.
• Comfort with ambiguity — started with a problem and figured out what to build, not contributed to someone else's vision.
• Strong partner instincts — in customer conversations, asked better questions than most, and translated what was heard into product decisions.
• Technical depth without needing to write code — comfortable in architecture discussions and thought through how decisions made today constrain or enable what's possible tomorrow.
• An ownership mindset — on an early-stage product, everything is your problem; you don't wait to be asked.
• Awareness of transfer rules and requirements across universities.

Qualifications

• Comfort with ambiguity — you don't need a clear spec to get started; you know how to structure discovery, form hypotheses, and make directional calls with incomplete information.
• Strong partner instincts — you're at home in customer conversations, you ask better questions than most, and you translate what you hear into product decisions rather than feature lists.
• Technical depth without needing to write code — comfortable in architecture discussions and able to think through how decisions made today constrain or enable what's possible tomorrow.
• An ownership mindset — on an early-stage product, everything is your problem; you don't wait to be asked.
• Clear, engaging communication — with university partners, engineers, and leadership; you can make a fuzzy problem feel structured and a hard trade-off feel obvious.

Skills

• Product Management
• Customer Discovery
• Architecture Thinking
• Ownership Mindset
• Communication Skills

Benefits

Exceptional benefits, including health insurance with Stellic covering 99% of your premium and 75% for dependents. 401(k), commuter benefits, and annual international retreats in incredible locations.

Pay

$200K - $220K

Schedule

Candidates must be willing to work in-office in San Mateo 2-3 days per week as part of our hybrid work culture.