Staff Product Manager

What You’ll Do

• Own the product vision, strategy, and execution for a new marketplace.
• Lead the product from initial discovery through MVP definition, launch, iteration, and scale.
• Conduct user interviews and ongoing discovery across marketplace participants.
• Develop deep understanding of user workflows, incentives, constraints, and trust requirements.
• Design experiences supporting both human users and automated participants.
• Define how participants discover opportunities, evaluate fit, establish trust, and engage.
• Translate operational needs into clear product requirements, priorities, and roadmaps.
• Partner with a small team of 3-5 engineers to define scope, sequence delivery, and make technical/product tradeoffs.
• Lead or support sprint planning, backlog prioritization, acceptance criteria, and product reviews.
• Use operational signals, user feedback, and product data to improve matching quality and performance.
• Balance near-term experimentation with longer-term scalable platform development.
• Brief executive leadership on strategy, progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions.
• Create alignment across engineering, users, and leadership.

Must Have

• Demonstrated experience taking a product or major capability from 0→1.
• Experience as a Product Manager with meaningful ownership of strategy and execution.
• Strong user interview, discovery, and synthesis skills.
• Experience defining and launching MVPs, using feedback and signals for iteration.
• Deep understanding of user experience, workflows, and how product decisions shape behavior.
• Experience working closely with technical leads and engineers to scope, prioritize, and sequence development.
• Ability to operate effectively with a small engineering team and provide execution clarity.
• Strong product judgment in ambiguous or low-signal environments.
• Ability to communicate complex decisions to technical teams and executive leadership.

Nice To Have

• Experience leading product development sprints and maintaining strong acceptance criteria.
• Experience building marketplace, platform, matching, or multi-sided network products.
• Experience designing products requiring trust, transparency, identity, reputation, or access controls.
• Experience building products for multiple participant types with different workflows and incentives.
• Experience with AI-driven or agentic products.
• Experience designing products used by both humans and automated systems.
• Experience in government, defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, or mission-driven environments.

Tech Environment

• Operational data and behavioral signals for matching and decision-making.
• AI-driven or agentic participants and workflows.
• Identity, permissions, reputation, and trust systems for sensitive environments.
• Backend-heavy platforms for complex transactions and workflows.
• Emphasis on security, reliability, transparency, and operational usability.