VP of Product Management (Consumer AI, Personalization & Privacy)

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States; on-site five days per week

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 per year

Company

Work with a well-funded, venture-backed AI startup building a privacy-first consumer personalization platform, supported by experienced repeat founders.

What you will do

• Own the product vision, roadmap, prioritization, and success measures for a new AI-powered consumer platform.
• Identify and develop consumer use cases for personalized experiences across multiple categories.
• Prototype ideas rapidly and turn ambiguous concepts into clear product requirements and experiences.
• Partner with engineering to build, test, iterate, and ship high-quality products at zero-to-one speed.
• Design experiences around personalization, user preferences, privacy, and user control.
• Shape enterprise distribution through APIs, integrations, administrative tooling, and lightweight product practices.

Requirements

• Strong experience building consumer products with clear judgment about UX, product craft, and user value.
• A track record of building at least one meaningful product from zero to one in an early-stage or similarly high-ownership environment.
• Technical depth sufficient to work with strong engineers and reason about AI-powered products, APIs, and platform trade-offs.
• Fluency with modern AI-assisted product and prototyping workflows, with willingness to build and test ideas personally.
• Excellent prioritization judgment, including when to ship, iterate, or avoid building something.
• Highly hands-on, detail-oriented operating style with strong ownership and minimal reliance on structure or hierarchy.
• Clear communication and the ability to align founders, engineers, designers, and future enterprise partners around product decisions.
• Ability to work on-site in Palo Alto five days per week.

Nice to have

• Meaningful early-stage startup experience with genuine zero-to-one product ownership.
• Deep consumer product experience and demonstrably strong product instincts.
• Practical familiarity with modern AI products and AI-assisted building or prototyping tools.
• Ability and willingness to operate hands-on rather than purely as a people or process manager.

Culture & Benefits

• Founding product leadership scope with ownership over a product moving from technical foundation to scaled consumer experience.
• Work on a complex product problem spanning AI, personalization, privacy, and platform architecture.
• Join a well-backed early-stage company led by experienced operators.
• Permanent position with significant influence over product direction and standards.