Head of Product

Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: 6+ years
Base Salary: $175,000–$300,000 per year
Equity: 0.5%–2%
Visa Sponsorship: Not available

Role Overview

An early-stage AI technology company is seeking a Head of Product to define product strategy and lead the development of an AI-native geospatial intelligence platform. This is a zero-to-one leadership opportunity for an experienced product professional who can translate complex AI, spatial data, and customer problems into scalable products with clear commercial value.

Working directly with the founders, engineering team, and early customers, the Head of Product will establish product direction, validate high-value use cases, and build a disciplined discovery and delivery process. The role requires strong technical judgment, exceptional customer insight, and the ability to turn ambiguous opportunities into products customers rely on.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy: Define the product vision, roadmap, and priorities based on customer needs, market opportunities, technical feasibility, and business objectives.

• Customer Discovery: Engage prospective customers, design partners, and users to uncover critical problems, validate assumptions, and identify high-impact use cases.

• Product Development: Partner closely with engineering from problem definition through prototyping, evaluation, and deployment, making informed trade-offs as the product evolves.

• Platform Scalability: Develop reusable product frameworks that address common geospatial intelligence needs across industries without relying on isolated, customer-specific solutions.

• AI Product Experience: Design intuitive workflows and interfaces that make advanced AI capabilities, satellite imagery, remote-sensing data, and spatial analysis accessible to users.

• Prioritization and Execution: Establish clear decision-making processes, balance short-term customer needs with long-term platform development, and maintain focus on the highest-value initiatives.

• Product Analytics: Build feedback loops using customer conversations, product usage, experimentation, and telemetry to guide continuous improvement.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Align founders, engineers, and customers around product objectives, ensuring rapid execution and measurable customer value.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional product management experience, including delivering technically sophisticated products from concept to customer adoption.

• Demonstrated zero-to-one product experience in an early-stage startup or a highly autonomous product organization.

• Strong technical fluency across AI systems, APIs, data infrastructure, model capabilities, latency, reliability, and software architecture.

• Proven ability to translate complex customer problems into clear product requirements, prototypes, and scalable solutions.

• Strong customer discovery skills, including identifying underlying needs, validating demand, and distinguishing urgent problems from lower-priority requests.

• Sound judgment balancing user experience, technical constraints, commercial opportunities, and development priorities.

• Meaningful experience exploring or building with modern AI systems, with a clear understanding of their practical product applications.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working closely with engineering teams and early customers.

• Willingness to work full-time on-site in San Francisco, California.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with geospatial technology, geographic information systems (GIS), satellite imagery, remote sensing, or Earth observation.

• Product leadership experience in AI/ML platforms, AI-native applications, developer tools, data infrastructure, or scientific software.

• Familiarity with industries that depend on physical-world intelligence, including defense, climate, energy, logistics, insurance, and agriculture.

• Experience in forward-deployed product roles or environments requiring intensive customer discovery and rapid iteration.

Compensation

• Annual base salary of $175,000–$300,000.

• Equity participation of 0.5%–2%.

Work Arrangement

Full-time, on-site position based in San Francisco, California. Visa sponsorship is not available.