Job Summary:
Coast is re-imagining the B2B card payments and expense management infrastructure for commercial fleets and vehicles. The Product Manager will own the vision and strategy for non-fuel spend products, leading a cross-functional team to create intuitive and effective solutions for fleet-based businesses.
Responsibilities:
โข Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a Coast product
โข Deeply understand and embody the voice of the customer
โข Drive high-velocity execution with a world-class team of engineers and designers, balancing principled intuition with data-driven decision making
โข Collaborate with sales, customer success and marketing to deliver a product and brand of high quality
โข Marry customer insights with technical possibilities, crafting intuitive user experiences that abstract away complexity
โข Prototype rapidly using tools like Cursor and Bolt to accelerate the product development lifecycle and fast-forward to production-ready products
โข Stay deeply plugged into AI research, industry trends, and emergent applications, filtering signal from noise and applying it creatively to Coastโs product
โข Contribute to the evolution of Coastโs product management practices as we scale AI across our platform
Qualifications:
Required:
โข BA/BS in an analytical field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Applied Sciences) or equivalent technical experience
โข Minimum 4 years of product management or adjacent product-building experience
โข Strong customer empathy and design thinking
โข Passion for AI, shown through hands-on building, prototyping, or side projects, and staying current on research and tools
โข Fluency with core LLM concepts and systems, such as prompting, fine-tuning, embeddings, retrieval, and evaluation, and the judgment to translate these into reliable, user-facing products.
โข Fluency with modern prototyping tools (e.g. Cursor, Bolt, Claude Code) and comfort with design/collaboration environments like Figma and Git.
โข Fluency in data and experimentation, and understanding when the answer cannot be found in the data
โข Proven ability to lead small, cross-functional teams toward ambitious goals with urgency and agency
โข Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences, synthesizing complex systems into compelling narratives
โข Excellent communication and storytelling skills
Preferred:
โข Experience building AI products
โข Experience in high-growth startups
โข Experience building in finance, enterprise, or other domains requiring complex systems thinking
Company:
Coast is a financial services platform that provides fleet fuel cards and expense management solutions for various industries. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.