Founding Product Manager

We’re looking for a founding Product Manager with strong product judgment and exceptional attention to detail.

Our engineers move fast. We need someone who can take an important, loosely defined problem, decide what a good solution looks like, and make it precise enough to build. Someone who sees the missing decisions, thinks through edge cases, and personally works through the details.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with ownership from problem definition through launch. You’ll work directly with the CEO, CTO, engineers, and designer to shape the product and ensure what we ship delivers the intended experience.

What you’ll own

• Find and define the right problems. Combine customer conversations, product usage, founder input, and your own observations to identify what needs to improve. Clearly articulate the user’s problem, why it matters, and what success looks like.
• Recommend thoughtful solutions. Develop a clear point of view, discuss key decisions and tradeoffs with the CEO, and drive the agreed approach forward.
• Make solutions buildable. Personally create detailed specs, user flows, wireframes, mocks, and interactive prototypes as needed. Define product behavior, acceptance criteria, permissions, states, and edge cases so engineers can move quickly.
• Work closely with engineering. Stay involved throughout implementation, resolve questions promptly, make decisions as new constraints emerge, and keep the experience coherent.
• Own quality through launch. Test the actual product, catch gaps, and drive fixes. Your ownership includes checking that the shipped experience solves the original problem and learning from how customers use it.
• Build a consistent product foundation. Define the core concepts, building blocks, and relationships that make the product understandable and useful across workflows, interfaces, APIs, and MCP.

Examples of problems you’ll tackle

• Define usage-based pricing: what we charge for, how we measure usage, how customers understand their consumption, and how limits, retries, failed operations, and upgrades behave.
• Translate our highest-priority customer use cases into specific workflows and capabilities engineers can build.
• Define the product’s core primitives and how customers combine them to accomplish their work.
• Identify incomplete or confusing experiences and carry improvements from initial diagnosis through shipment.

What we’re looking for

• Experience building and shipping B2B software, preferably at a startup or smaller company where you personally owned the details.
• Strong product sense: you can develop a good solution, explain your reasoning, and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
• Exceptional precision: you notice ambiguity, missing states, inconsistent behavior, and overlooked edge cases—and resolve them.
• Hands-on ability to communicate through clear writing, flows, mocks, and prototypes, working closely with a designer.
• Technical fluency to reason with engineers about APIs, MCP, data models, permissions, and asynchronous workflows.
• Independent execution: you identify what needs attention, bring a recommendation, and keep work moving.
• Comfort using AI tools to explore ideas, prototype solutions, and accelerate your work while applying your own judgment.
• Hybrid flexibility; collaboration hub in San Mateo, CA

What success looks like in your first 90 days

You understand our customers, priority use cases, and product foundations. You’ve independently taken meaningful problems from definition through shipment. Engineers have clear guidance and timely decisions, and the founders can rely on you to own product details and quality without filling in the gaps themselves.

What You Get

• Founding-level ownership and direct access to the founders — real influence over what Trayo becomes; your specs are what the team builds
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity
• Small team, high trust, real impact
• Hybrid flexibility; collaboration hub in San Mateo

About Us

We're a fast-moving, VC-backed startup building an AI-powered product for enterprise teams. We work at the intersection of data, automation, and user-facing workflows, helping customers make faster, higher-confidence decisions.

Our founding team brings rare depth across both scale and startup execution:

• Our CEO previously led multiple large-scale analytics services (hundreds of millions in ARR), owning P&L, product, and GTM, and helped scale a major product from early stage through IPO. Her background spans enterprise software, go-to-market strategy, and AI/ML-driven data platforms.
• Our CTO is a multi-time founder with successful acquisitions and deep technical leadership experience building developer products and business software used by millions of customers.