Founding Product Manager

About the job Founding Product Manager


Role Overview

This is not a typical PM role. As our Founding Product Manager, you will be one of the earliest product hires, working directly with the founders to shape product strategy, define what we build, and establish how the product team operates.

You'll own the product end-to-end - from raw user insights to shipped features - and your decisions will have an outsized, lasting impact on Readdy's trajectory. This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast, and wants to leave a fingerprint on a product used by tens of thousands of people worldwide.

Description

Define the Product Foundation

Partner directly with founders to set product vision, strategy, and roadmap

Establish product processes, frameworks, and rituals from the ground up

Make high-stakes prioritization calls with incomplete information

Own the product narrative - internally with the team and externally with users

Deep User & Market Understanding

Lead user research and synthesize insights into clear product bets

Go beyond feature requests to uncover the underlying jobs-to-be-done

Build feedback loops with our global user base across multiple channels

Use product data and behavioral signals to validate or kill hypotheses quickly

AI Product & Technical Leadership

Develop a nuanced understanding of LLM capabilities, limitations, and emerging behaviors

Identify product gaps at the intersection of user needs and model constraints

Be a strong thought partner to engineering - not just a ticket writer

Drive quality improvements in AI-generated output and workflow reliability

01 Execution

Take ideas from napkin sketch to shipped product with minimal hand-holding

Prototype rapidly using AI tools, no-code, or lightweight builds to de-risk decisions

Drive full launch cycles: spec build ship learn iterate

Own activation, retention, and usability metrics for the features you ship

Forward-Looking Product Thinking

Stay at the frontier of AI - LLMs, agents, multi-modal, autonomous workflows

Proactively bring emerging technology into product strategy before it's obvious

Help Readdy stay ahead of the curve in a fast-moving competitive landscape

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

3-7 years in Product Management, with at least one founding or very early-stage role.

Proven track record taking a product from 01, ideally to meaningful revenue or scale

Experience building AI products, SaaS, or developer/creator tools

Independently owns problems end-to-end with strong bias for action

Deep user empathy paired with sharp analytical thinking

Fluent in English; working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as a founding PM, Head of Product, or equivalent at a startup

Shipped AI-native products involving LLMs, agents, or generative workflows

Hands-on with AI prototyping tools, prompting, automation, no-code

Comfortable with data, SQL, analytics platforms, and light scripting, Python

Familiarity with PLG growth mechanics and self-serve SaaS

What We Value

Founders' mindset - you treat the product like it's yours

Intellectual curiosity about where AI is going, not just where it is

High comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration

Extreme ownership: you don't wait to be asked

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: USD $200,000 - $250,000

Meaningful equity - commensurate with a founding team member

Direct seat at the table with founders on product and company direction

Opportunity to build and lead the product function as the company scales

Work Authorization

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.