Founding Product Manager

The Role
As Daptic's Founding Product Manager, you'll own two things above all else. First, product strategy: helping determine where the product is going and, most importantly, the sequencing from where we are today to that vision. Second, the voice of the customer: living in customer conversations all day and turning what you learn into context the whole company can act on, so engineers can propose, own, and ship product initiatives without waiting on anyone.

This is a demanding role with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, suited to someone who wants to own product thinking end to end rather than sit between engineering and customers relaying requests.

Core Responsibilities
Shape Product Vision and Strategy

Take the product vision direction and articulate it clearly: the customer problems we are solving, in what order, and why.

Own the sequencing from the current product to that vision: what we build in the next cycle, the next two quarters, and the next year, and what we deliberately do not.

Research the agentic product landscape, including owning how Daptic integrates into PLM, ALM, and requirements management systems.

Facilitate short-, mid-, and long-term prioritization discussions with the leadership team and engineering leads.

Be the Voice of the Customer

Watch and read onboarding calls, check-ins, and support tickets. Attend conferences. Run additional customer research sessions as needed.

Turn a high volume of customer conversations into a small number of clear product insights, and keep them current.

Work closely with GTM to incorporate feedback from onboardings and pilots, and coordinate user outreach.

Make the Company Capable of Product Decisions

Share what you learn in a form engineers and GTM can act on, so people across the company can propose and properly own product initiatives.

Build the lightweight systems (research notes, customer context, decision records) that let product decisions happen without you in the room.

Know when you are not the right owner. Some initiatives belong to an engineer or someone on GTM; your job is to set them up to succeed.

What We're Looking For
Requirements

4+ years in a product role, with experience at the 0-1 stage of a company.

AI-native and intellectually curious about the future of product and agentic systems.

Available to work in our office in New York City at least 4 days a week.