Product Manager

About the role

We're hiring a Product Manager to join Sauna early. We're building the first multiplayer AI brain: a fleet of agents that runs in the background, learns your context across sessions, and comes back when the work is done. Sauna runs on Sauna; we use the product we're building, every day.

Responsibilities

• Stand up working prototypes before an engineer touches the problem
• Edit one-pagers, push them through to ship, hold the bar on quality
• Sit in 15-20 user sessions a week, write up the patterns, share them with the team
• Run evals on new chat flows and decide whether they ship
• Draft launch posts and external comms for new features
• Spend time in the office helping customers get unstuck
• Vibe-design competing versions of screens to settle design arguments
• Whatever else the week demands

Requirements

This role demands someone who ships fast, has taste, and earns respect by doing the work. Ship in a day, not scope for two weeks. Prototype first. Have shipped something real and be able to name the tradeoff you made. Build with AI every day. Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, v0, Sauna. You have opinions about what's working and what's broken. Default to shipping the high-leverage thing now, not exploring for months. Hold your own with anyone in the room. Earn respect by doing the work, not by claiming authority. Write well. Sharp, specific, opinionated. Not "PM polished". Want to be the best at what you do.

Bonus (but Not Required)

• Founded or co-founded a company (success or failure, both count)
• Run product, growth, or self-serve at a fast-growing startup
• Strategy or consulting background with an AI side project under your belt
• Engineering background and a product instinct pulling you toward this seat
• Published writing or talks about product, AI, or building
• A track record of vibe-coding or prototyping that gets you to working software faster than your peers

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $140K–$220K
• + meaningful early-stage equity
• + health, dental, 401(k)
• + considerable PTO
• + gym budget
• + lunch

The Process

We keep our process simple. Exceptional candidates go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks. Application: Submit your resume and answer a few short questions. 15-minute intro call: Quick check to align on location, motivation, and logistics. If it's a go, we move fast from here. Product exercise: Prototype or tear down a real Wordware problem. We look for taste, speed, and judgment. Final conversation: We answer your questions and scope out the work trial. Work trial: Paid, in person, usually a few days to two weeks. You work on a real project with us. See how we work, see if it fits, both sides.