Founding Product Manager

This is an early product role that sits close to the founders and the customers. The work is talking to users about their daily workflows, picking the problems worth solving, and turning feedback into things the engineers and designers can ship. A strong candidate has a few years of shipping experience, sound judgment when priorities shift, and clear communication, and ideally some background in construction, trades, or other complex real-world workflows. How it fits the AI era The product reads construction documents and automates estimating, so a lot of the PM work involves deciding where automation can be trusted and where a person still needs to check the output. AI speeds up repetitive document review, but understanding what estimators actually need, earning their trust, and choosing what to build next remain human calls. Product judgment about accuracy, edge cases, and real jobsite stakes matters a lot here. How it builds AI experience The role offers hands-on exposure to an AI product used daily by mechanical trade firms, including how to shape features around model output that is sometimes imperfect. Someone new to AI products can build relevant experience by studying how estimators work with blueprints and spec books, learning how to judge the quality of AI results, and practicing how to turn user corrections into product improvements. Worth showing Shipped products with real users Customer interviews and discovery Construction or trades workflow knowledge Working with engineers and designers This is our own read, written from the employer's posting and the company's Spotlight. The employer's posting is the source of truth for the role. About Rebar Rebar is an AI platform that reads construction documents like blueprints and spec books to automate takeoffs and estimating for mechanical trades, per the company.