Senior Product Manager

  • Athenago
  • Palo Alto
  • 9mo ago
  • Full-Time
  • Hybrid

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager  with strong end-to-end product experience, ideally in fast-paced startup environments. This person should be excited by the opportunity to work across both 0→1 and iterative optimization projects—especially those that support human-AI collaboration, productivity tooling, and complex workflows.

Ideal Background

  • 6–10+ years of product management experience in Consumer-facing SaaS, Productivity Tools, Marketplaces, or similar platforms

  • Experience building OPERATIONAL workflow-heavy systems (e.g., onboarding, billing, operations tooling, or CRM/admin platforms)

  • Comfort managing products with multiple user types (e.g., clients/customers vs. internal operations/EAs) in a marketplace context

  • Track record of taking zero-to-one products from concept to launch and scaling products that reach large user bases

  • Startup mindset — comfortable with ambiguity, quick to make decisions, and thoughtful about tradeoffs

Key Skills & Traits

  • Systems thinker who can create elegant solutions across complex workflows

  • Strong product discovery and strategy skills: adept at gathering insights, defining problems, and translating them into actionable roadmaps

  • Experienced in prioritization and execution across competing needs while maintaining a customer-first mindset

  • Skilled in cross-functional collaboration, partnering deeply with design, engineering, operations, and stakeholders

  • Analytical and data-driven, with the ability to measure success and adjust strategy quickly

  • Clear communicator who can articulate vision, rationale, and outcomes to diverse audiences

  • Highly curious, proactive, and energized by fast feedback loops and iteration

Softer/Harder to assess qualities. Incredibly important for first few team members.

  • Has done hard things - their experiences are not just incremental optimizations, but required strength or skill in multiple areas. This can be beyond just product, but aligning senior leadership across an org , learning an entirely new technical area or skill set, introducing a new metric of success etc. 

  • Curious and gets to the root of an issue  - Are they able to dig five layers deep behind a request/project/metric and deeply understand what the root cause is? Or do they have a surface level understanding, where product becomes a services org

  • Strong Communicators - Both written and verbal. Do they lose the thread of a story? Are they listening to the question and actually answering it? Do they take hints and feedback 

Able to prioritize ruthlessly and not be a people pleaser. Able to understand the long term vs. short term plays and deliver real impact, not just check off to-dos. Examples of how they prioritized between multiple good ideas