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Founding Product Designer

New York, NY · On-site

About The Role As our founding Product Designer, you will work closely with our product management, engineering, and lending operations teams to create simple, elegant, and thoughtful experiences for ...

Hatch IT

Founding Product Engineer

New York, NY

$180K - $220K/yr

About The Role We're hiring a founding product engineer to own the user-facing experience of their platform. You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn ...

Hatch IT

Founding Product Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$180K - $220K/yr

About The Role We're hiring a founding product engineer to own the user-facing experience of their platform. You'll work closely with the CTO, founders, designers, and clinical stakeholders to turn ...

Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $250K/yr

We're looking for a Founding Product Engineer to own entire product modules end-to-end, work directly with customers, and help set the technical and engineering culture of the company. This is a ...

Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$190K - $210K/yr

About the Role A well-funded, early-stage fintech startup is looking for a Founding Product Engineer to join a small, senior team building a new kind of collaborative financial product. You'll have ...

Vooma

Founding Product Marketer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$175K - $230K/yr

Founding Product Marketer About Vooma Enterprise software is in the midst of a revolution. The world is shifting from "systems of record" to "systems of automation" - LLM-powered agents that perform ...

Alpaca Health

Founding Product Manager

Manhattan, NY · On-site

They are seeking a Founding Product Manager to transform their provider-focused EHR into an AI-native platform, focusing on prototyping, patient experience, and building a provider growth platform.

Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K/yr

About the Role An early-stage ambient intelligence startup is hiring a Founding Product Engineer to own the entire product surface end-to-end. You'll work across phone, watch, and desktop - building ...

Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $180K/yr

About the Role This is a founding Product Engineer role at a seed-stage startup building computer vision and AI solutions for the construction industry. The product automates blueprint reading ...

Revefi

Founding Product Mananger

The Founding Product Manager will shape the future of Data Spend Optimization by defining the product roadmap, driving execution, and owning the user experience end-to-end. Responsibilities : • Own ...

Sekai

Founding Product Designer

About the Role We are looking for our first design hire: a Founding Product Designer who can own the user experience end-to-end and raise the quality bar of the product. This is not a supporting ...

Atomic

Founding Product Lead

Miami, FL · On-site

We are looking for a Founding Product Lead to serve as the first operator for a new healthcare venture. This role sits at the center of product discovery, health system relationships, and early ...

Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$140K - $180K/yr

About the Role A fast-moving, seed-stage legal AI company is looking for a Founding Product Engineer to build its core product from the ground up. Operating at the intersection of AI and legal ...

Gumloop

Founding Product Designer

New York, NY · On-site

$200K - $300K/yr

Role Overview We're looking for a Founding Product Designer to drive design across the full Gumloop product. You'll own work from concept to delivery, contribute to our core design system, and ...

Hyperscale

Founding Product Manager

San Francisco, CA · On-site

They are seeking a Founding Product Manager to own product discovery, roadmap, and customer implementation, working closely with customers and engineering to drive product direction. Responsibilities ...

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As of Aug 14, 2026, the average yearly pay for founding product in the United States is $159,405.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $141,000.00 and $197,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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A Founding Product role is an early-stage product leadership position in a startup, often responsible for defining the product vision, building the initial roadmap, and driving execution. This role combines product management, strategy, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, design, and business teams. Founding Product managers work closely with founders to shape the company’s direction, validate market fit, and scale the product. Given the dynamic nature of startups, they often wear multiple hats, including user research, growth, and operations.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the founding product position, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Founding Product leader, you need a strong foundation in product management, market analysis, and user-centered design, often supported by prior startup or product launch experience. Proficiency with tools like Jira, Figma, analytics platforms, and agile methodologies is essential for success. Exceptional communication, adaptability, and collaborative leadership stand out as crucial soft skills. These competencies ensure you can drive early-stage product strategy, align cross-functional teams, and adapt quickly to changing startup environments.

What are the primary challenges a founding product leader faces in an early-stage startup environment?

Founding Product leaders in startups often face the unique challenge of building product strategy from the ground up while iterating rapidly based on limited data and evolving user feedback. You will frequently wear multiple hats, balancing hands-on execution with roadmap planning and stakeholder alignment. Collaboration is critical, as you’ll work closely with engineering, design, and company founders to prioritize features and pivot direction as needed. The fast-paced, resource-constrained environment demands resilience, creative problem-solving, and an entrepreneurial mindset. While challenging, this role offers a rare opportunity to shape a product’s vision and trajectory from its inception.

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Infographic showing various Founding Product job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 80% Full Time, 16% Part Time, 3% Contract, and 1% Nights. Highlights an 91% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 7% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $159,405 per year, or $76.6 per hour.

Founding Product Designer

Arkham Technologies

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Full-time

Medical

Re-posted 20 days ago

Job description

To learn more about the role, check this medium link: https://medium.com/arkham-technologies/building-ai-native-systems-77fac5081dda
About Arkham:
Arkham is a Data & AI platform that helps large enterprises:
  • Unify fragmented systems and data
  • Build a single source of trusted operational metrics
  • Solve complex challenges with AI tailored to their operations

Teams at Circle K and Kimberly-Clark partner with us to deploy AI-powered solutions for sell-out forecasting, pricing and promo analysis, and automated order assignment. With Arkham, they achieve high-impact results fast, creating a strong foundation for long-term AI transformation.
Know more about Arkham:
  • Our website
  • Youtube Channel
  • Medium blog

The Role
We're looking for a Founding Product Designer to help shape how AI-native systems are built and used inside real enterprise operations.
This is not a traditional design role. You will work at the intersection of AI, data, and operations, designing new interfaces for a world where humans supervise, review, and guide AI agents that execute work end to end.
You'll work closely with the founding team to define what product design looks like in an agentic future.
What You'll Work On
  • Design interfaces for AI-driven operational workflows (forecasting, replenishment, pricing, exceptions).
  • Rethink how humans interact with AI agents: review, approval, override, and supervision.
  • Create text-rich and decision-focused experiences that help operators act with clarity.
  • Design role-specific applications that work across web, mobile, and eventually voice.
  • Help define Arkham's core product and design systems from the ground up.
  • Collaborate closely with engineers, ML teams, and Forward Deployed Engineers working with customers.
Who This Is For
  • You believe the product design role is changing-and you want to help define what's next.
  • You've followed the thinking of people like Ryo Lu and Karri Saarinen and formed your own point of view.
  • You've seen how AI is reshaping engineering workflows and design collaboration.
  • You care deeply about clarity, judgment, and usability in complex operational systems.
  • You're excited by ambiguity and early-stage product work.
  • You want to work in person with a small, ambitious founding team.
Why Arkham
  • We're building the AI operating system for enterprise operations.
  • Our platform is already used by leading companies in retail, CPG, and beyond.
  • We have strong product-market fit, growing demand, and a partnership with Deloitte.
  • You'll have real ownership and influence over the product direction.
  • You'll help build one of the most consequential AI companies in the Americas.
Location & Benefits
  • In-person role in the Bay Area
  • Competitive compensation.
  • Healthcare.
  • High ownership, high trust, high impact.

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