Product Manager, AI-Native Builder

About Bond Sports

Bond Sports is a fast‑growing SaaS company that powers the youth & recreational sports market. It helps owners and operators of sports facilities improve business operations and manage turf, courts, fields, diamonds, pools, gyms, and other athletic spaces. Customers range from independent facilities to large, multi‑location sports organizations and franchises, including NBA, MLS, NHL, and USL facilities. The product spans registration, rental/events, payments, scheduling, accounting, reporting, and more. The team ships frequently and is heavily investing in AI to build software and agentic products for customers.

Responsibilities

• Own features from discovery through production.
• Talk directly with customers to turn problems into clear requirements and solutions.
• Design workflows, work through edge cases, and make product decisions.
• Build prototypes, internal tools, AI agents, and production features.
• Work across APIs, data, payments, scheduling, permissions, reporting, and consumer experiences.
• Test, ship, measure usage, and iterate on your work.
• Leverage AI across research, product, design, development, testing, and analysis.
• Stay current on new models, tools, and agent frameworks; evaluate and integrate useful ones.
• Improve AI usage: better context, fewer tokens, optimal model selection, reusable workflows, and reduced duplication.
• Identify processes to automate, simplify, or remove.
• Help define and build AI‑powered experiences for customers.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building software products.
• Product‑minded: able to turn messy problems into clear product requirements.
• Technical proficiency with APIs, databases, and modern web applications.
• Strong UX instincts; can design straightforward workflows without heavy reliance on designers.
• AI‑native: comfortable using tools such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, or similar in daily work.
• Curious: actively follows AI and technology trends and tests new tools.
• Proactive: identifies problems and opportunities and takes action.
• Practical: distinguishes between interesting ideas and useful solutions.
• Excellent communicator able to work directly with customers, engineers, designers, and business teams.
• Willing to challenge existing processes and lead adoption of better tools and practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• B2B or B2B2C SaaS experience.
• Experience with scheduling, payments, commerce, memberships, marketplaces, or multi‑location businesses.
• Background building AI agents or AI‑powered products.
• Startup experience.
• Experience in sports, fitness, recreation, or sports‑facility management.
• Personal involvement in sports as a player, coach, or enthusiast.

Success Metrics

• Deep understanding of Bond and its customers to identify high‑impact problems.
• Ability to take a feature from idea to customer‑facing product, owning requirements, UX, technical execution, and follow‑through.
• Rapid shipping without creating technical debt.
• Proactive introduction of AI tools or approaches that improve the team.
• Delivery of measurable improvements for customers and for Bond.

Pay

Salary range: $100,000–$200,000, leveled based on experience and demonstrated scope.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Equity for all full‑time employees.
• 401(k) plan.
• Additional benefits offered through Justworks.

Location

NYC‑based.