Lead Product Manager

About the role

AirOps is expanding its AI Search capabilities for brands and needs a leader to drive this new offering from inception. This role is akin to a founder within a rapidly growing company, tasked with exploring and validating new market opportunities. You will identify untapped acquisition channels, conduct rigorous experiments, and shape future product investments.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Discover, evaluate, and test new business channels to broaden AirOps' growth marketing ecosystem.
• Develop clear hypotheses and execute rapid, data-driven experiments to assess market potential before committing significant engineering resources.
• Establish foundational analytics, including funnel tracking, key metrics, and dashboards, to validate or disprove channel viability.
• Translate successful experiments into repeatable go-to-market strategies, pricing models, and business cases to guide company investments.
• Collaborate closely with key customers to transform their feedback into scalable product initiatives.

Requirements

• Proven experience founding a company, leading product at an early-stage startup, or driving 0-to-1 growth initiatives in a fast-paced company.
• Extensive background with data-intensive products and analytics. You should be adept at building dashboards, writing SQL, analyzing complex funnels, and making decisions with incomplete information.
• A strong aptitude for hypothesis-driven development, including building low-fidelity prototypes and tracking early indicators of demand.
• Exceptional ability to prioritize product initiatives, balancing customer needs with a focus on high-impact growth areas.
• Capacity to effectively communicate with executive stakeholders, collaborate with engineering teams, and work across Growth, Data, Product, and Sales departments.

Nice to have

• Experience developing or scaling data-rich products in MarTech, AdTech, SEO, AI Search, or Content Marketing.
• Previous involvement in scaling a venture-backed tech company through rapid growth phases, such as from $10 million to over $50 million in Annual Recurring Revenue.

Skills & tools

• SQL
• Analytics frameworks
• Data analysis
• Product prioritization
• Hypothesis testing

Practical notes

• Equity in a rapidly growing startup.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Flexible time off.
• Parental leave.