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Founding Product Manager

Kelly Services

Palo Alto, CA · HybridFull-time$200–235K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$200–235K/yr
Location
Palo Alto, CAHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Founding Product Manager will build the product function for an AI-powered architecture design platform, owning its roadmap and strategy from early traction through scale. The role works closely with engineering, architecture firms, universities, and the CEO, and includes building the product team. The platform supports AI image, video, and 3D workflows, design integrations, collaboration, and enterprise features.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Product Management, required0-to-1 Product Development, requiredProduct Scaling, requiredTechnical Tradeoffs, requiredProduct Function Building, requiredAEC Experience, nice to haveProduct Team Leadership, nice to haveMarket Research, nice to haveCompetitive Research, nice to haveAI Design Tools, nice to have

Qualifications

5+ Years Product Management Experience, required

Benefits

Relocation Assistance
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off

Full job description

$200000 - $235000

Founding Product Manager: AI for Architecture (Boston, MA / New York, NY)

We're building the AI canvas that will reshape how the world gets built, and you'd be the person who builds the product function behind it. This is a rare chance to own the roadmap and the strategy at a company with real traction: 500k+ generations a month across top architecture firms, $1M+ saved on visualization costs by a leading practice in six months, and 75% faster concept iteration for design teams.

Our platform gives architects one place to ideate, design, visualize, and collaborate, from a mood image to massing to photoreal renders. It brings 90+ leading AI models (image, video, and 3D) under a single subscription. It integrates with Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Speckle, and Pinterest, and includes an agentic chat that researches, builds, and iterates inside the canvas. It is enterprise-ready, with SOC2 alignment, SSO, firm-wide dashboards, and a firm commitment never to retrain models on customer data.

You'll work directly with the CEO, who will personally coach you on the architecture side of the business. You'll also spend time with top global practices and universities, and you'll build and scale a product team as the company grows. If you want to take a product from early traction through fundraising and scale, with a lot of ownership and a steep learning curve, this is the role.

Team Size: 25 employees | Total Funding: $1M Required Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years of product management experience, ideally across more than one company

  • Built products 0-to-1 and helped scale them at startups (ideally Seed/Series A through Series C or D)

  • Track record of shipping products that grew alongside a company through fundraising and scale

  • Comfortable wearing many hats in a fast-moving AI startup

  • Able to hold your own with engineers and handle technical tradeoffs and pushback

  • Experience building out a product function from scratch

Desired Skills & Experience

  • AEC or architecture-adjacent experience (e.g., Figma, Miro, Autodesk, Flora)

  • Prior experience leading a product team

  • Experience conducting market and competitive research on AI and design tools

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

  • 35% AI image and video generation

  • 35% 3D models and integrations (Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, Speckle)

  • 30% Collaboration and enterprise features (annotation, SSO, dashboards)

Daily Responsibilities

  • 30% Product Strategy and Roadmap: design and own the roadmap for the AI-powered 2D/3D design ideation platform, from early ideas through 3D models and future video capabilities. Drive prioritization and long-term strategy rather than one-off feature builds.

  • 40% Engineering Collaboration: work with the engineering team day to day on progress and check-in points, and resolve technical tradeoffs.

  • 15% Customer Discovery: meet with architecture firms and universities to understand their workflows and define what the product should become.

  • 15% Market and Competitive Research: bring insights and new ideas on AI and design tools back to the team.

  • XX% Team Building: build and scale the product team as the company grows, with CEO coaching on the architecture side.

The Offer

  • Salary: $200K–$235K

  • Bonus eligible

  • Hybrid role based in Boston, MA (HQ, about 80% preferred) or New York, NY. For the first ~3 months, you'll be in the office 3–4 days per week for CEO coaching, then 2–3 days per week.

  • Relocation support of up to $15K for moves to the Boston area

  • Travel: 1–2 trips per quarter

You will receive the following benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

  • Vacation Time

  • Stock Options

**Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

How this job compares

Set against the 10,442 open Product Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$200–235K/yr
  • California median$177–265K/yr1,385 salary ranges
  • US median$144–218K/yr8,591 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $218K, is close to the California median midpoint ($222K) — in the middle half of Product Management salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,624 open Product Management jobs in California and 10,442 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Product Management postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (8,876 postings).
Education
3,202 of the 10,442 open Product Management jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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