Product Manager

About the role

We are looking for a Product Manager who combines deep domain expertise in land development and real estate with the judgment to drive product decisions for an AI-native platform.

This is not a traditional PM role. Our product management function operates with an AI-augmented workflow that automates the operational overhead of PM work — triage, intake, status tracking, backlog scoring, stakeholder reporting, and structured document generation.

What You'll Do

• Own the backlog and roadmap for your area(s), grounded in deep understanding of how land developers, brokers, and acquisition teams actually work in the field.
• Define problems worth solving. Translate customer conversations, expert feedback, competitive signals, and market dynamics into clear problem statements with measurable success criteria.
• Make prioritization decisions that balance customer urgency, strategic value, and engineering feasibility — the scoring is automated, but the judgment is yours.
• Serve as the internal authority on how land acquisition professionals discover, evaluate, and execute on opportunities — including zoning research, site feasibility, entitlement processes, and competitive market analysis.
• Conduct customer discovery with enterprise homebuilders, multifamily developers, land brokerages, and industrial firms. Understand workflows, not just feature requests.
• Maintain competitive awareness across mapping platforms, land data providers, and AI-enabled real estate tools. Know where we lead, where we trail, and what’s emerging.
• Write executive summaries that frame problems for leadership decisions and detailed PRDs that give engineering clear, testable requirements.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, AI, and data teams through the build cycle. Be available for trade-off decisions, scope calls, and edge case resolution.
• Define acceptance criteria and success metrics that connect feature work to customer outcomes — not just output metrics.
• Partner with Sales and Account Management to translate pipeline feedback and client escalations into actionable product insights.

What You Need

• 5+ years of product management experience in a technology company shipping production software.
• Direct domain experience in one or more of: land development, homebuilding, commercial real estate development, land brokerage, site planning, entitlements, or GIS/mapping technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to define product strategy and write clear, opinionated problem statements — not just feature lists.
• Experience working with AI/ML-powered products where model capabilities and data quality are core to the user experience.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills. You’ve shipped features by aligning engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders around a shared direction.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You can make defensible decisions when data is incomplete and adjust course as you learn.

Nice to Have

• Experience with geospatial data, mapping technologies, or GIS platforms.
• Understanding of zoning codes, municipal permitting, or land use regulation at the county or municipal level.
• Familiarity with AI-powered search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or natural language interfaces for complex data.
• Experience with data pipeline products — understanding how data quality, coverage, and freshness translate into user trust.
• Background in proptech, land tech, or real estate SaaS.
• Comfort working with AI-augmented workflows and tools as part of your own PM process.

Why Prophetic

• The team. Wide expertise, sharp, low ego, and genuinely fun to work with. We have each other's backs and we celebrate wins together.
• Real ownership and impact from day one. Our customers make million-dollar decisions on our platform. Your work matters immediately.
• AI-native product and AI-native workflows. Every team — engineering, sales, operations — runs on AI tooling daily.
• Founder-led transparency. Leadership shares the financials, the strategy, and the hard calls with the whole team.
• High growth, high demand. The product works, customers love it, and we are hiring to keep up. No shortage of opportunity here.
• Flexibility. Remote, hybrid, or in-office with a great Portland, OR headquarters.
• Self-starters who thrive in ambiguity. We're a startup. If you need someone to tell you what to do every morning, this isn't the place; if you come alive solving hard problems with smart people, it is.

Benefits (US-based Full-time)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you; 30% coverage for dependents
• Competitive salary and meaningful early-stage equity
• UnlimUnlimited PTO
• Hybrid/Remote stipend
• In-office perks: snacks, drinks, coffee, ping-pong table, and more — plus cuddles from Olive, our in-office Doberman!
• Budget for intra-office travel
• 2–3 annual team meetups in person