Lead Product Manager (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Palo Alto, California, USA; travel up to 25%.

Annual base salary: $210,000–$298,000 in the Bay Area.

Company

hirify.global develops a Manufacturing Acceleration Platform that combines factory signals, performance data, AI software, vision hardware, and forward-deployed services to improve electronics manufacturing yield and throughput.

What you will do

• Investigate workflows, equipment, data, and constraints with customer engineers and use the findings to prioritize product opportunities.
• Set targets for product performance, market fit, and customer value, and drive measurable outcomes.
• Make priorities, trade-offs, success criteria, roadmaps, and decisions visible across the organization.
• Prototype with AI, run field trials, test assumptions, simplify complex workflows, and deliver useful improvements quickly.
• Define evaluations and context with domain experts; validate automated judgments under real operating conditions and design user verification, correction, recovery, and human-approval flows.
• Build reusable product-work guidance, track outcomes, resolve deployment barriers, and turn field learning and failures into tested improvements.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on product management or founder experience, including significant ownership of a product offering at an early- or mid-stage startup.
• At least 20% of working time spent with customers consistently as a core part of product practice.
• Demonstrated ability to earn the trust of technical customer stakeholders and learn unfamiliar domains quickly; manufacturing or industrial AI experience is not required.
• Ability to understand complex customer datasets, including spreadsheet analysis, basic statistics, and database queries.
• Strong product taste, human-centric storytelling, and sound judgment for prioritization in AI-enabled product development.
• Leading-edge AI fluency, including adapting product practice to new AI tools and AI-driven collaboration and productivity methods.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, inclusive environment focused on learning and large customer impact.
• Health, vision, and dental benefits.
• Commuter plans and parental leave.
• Employees must follow engineering, security, access-control, and privacy policies and report suspected security incidents or policy violations.