# Product Manager - Company: [Candidate Fyi]() - Location: Remote - Remote: Yes - Team: Product - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $90K – $110K - Posted: July 21, 2026 ## Job description ## **The one-line version** You'll be the first product management hire, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the CEO to build the AI execution layer for recruiting - and you'll treat this like the last job you'll have before starting your own company. ## **About us** [candidate.fyi](http://candidate.fyi) is the AI-native hiring execution layer, powering the hiring experience for some of the most innovative and largest organizations in the world. We're a lean, capital-efficient team building a suite of AI agents that are redefining what hiring looks like at scale. We ship fast, we make decisions quickly, and we're allergic to bloat. This role reflects that. ### **Why this role exists** We’re building at a pace that requires a second brain. The CEO is in the product every single day and needs a true partner, not a delegate. You won’t inherit a stale roadmap or a backlog to groom-you’ll be in the trenches alongside the CEO, shaping strategy, obsessing over details, and shipping the features that define our category. This is a seat for a builder, not a process manager. ## **What you'll do** * Own product areas end to end: from the messy problem, through the design, to the shipped feature and its adoption * Work extremely closely with the CEO on strategy, prioritization, and the hard calls - you'll be in the room for the decisions that matter * Write specs, prototypes, and PRDs that engineers actually want to build from, and sit with the team through implementation * Talk to enterprise customers directly, turn what you hear into product bets, and close the loop * Prototype your own ideas fast - get a working thing in front of real users to pressure-test a bet before we commit engineering to it * Use AI relentlessly in your own workflow - for research, prototyping, spec-writing, analysis - and bring that instinct into the products we build ## **What we're looking for** **You're obsessed with building product.** Not the ceremony of PM - the actual craft of figuring out what to build and making it real. You have opinions about products you use and you can't help improving them in your head. **You're technical.** You've written code, even if it's not your day job anymore. You understand how the pieces fit together - APIs, data models, what's cheap vs. expensive to build - so engineers trust you and you can prototype your own ideas. **You want to be a founder.** This is a feature, not a bug. We want someone who's using this as the training ground for the company they'll start one day - because that person operates with ownership, urgency, and taste that you can't hire for any other way. **You have design sense.** You know good design when you see it and you're not satisfied until the thing feels right. You can push back on a mediocre UI and articulate why. **You live in AI.** You use it every day, you know where it's good and where it breaks, and you have real intuition for building products on top of models - not just bolting a chatbot onto a form. ### **The baseline** * 3+ years of professional experience - ideally with real ownership of a product area from idea to launch * Hands-on with v0, Replit, Cursor, or similar modern prototyping and dev tools - you can go from idea to working prototype in an afternoon ### **Bonus points** *This is a picture of someone who'd thrive here. Strong candidates will bring some of these; the rare ones bring most.* * **You've shipped with AI, not just talked about it.** Real tools, workflows, or prototypes you built yourself - and a clear mental model for where AI improves a workflow vs. where it just adds noise. * **You know enterprise B2B.** Multi-stakeholder buying, implementation complexity, and what actually drives retention aren't new to you. * **Recruiting or HR tech is in your background** - or you're genuinely fired up to go deep on it. * **You have craft.** You sweat the workflow details, partner well with designers, and use data to challenge your assumptions rather than just confirm them. ### **What makes you a fit for us specifically** * You'd rather ship and learn than analyze and wait * You give and take direct feedback without drama * You're energized, not intimidated, by working this closely with a founder * Enterprise B2B and the unglamorous-but-huge problem of hiring coordination genuinely interests you ## **Why candidate.fyi** * **Real traction.** We power hiring for enterprise customers like Coreweave, Zendesk, and and Yelp across a lean, capital-efficient business. Real revenue, real customers, no hype. * **Huge surface area.** A whole suite of AI agents and a category being defined in real time. You'll own something meaningful from day one - the opposite of a rounding-error role at a big company. * **A genuine AI bet.** We're building AI-native, not AI-bolted-on. You'll help decide what that actually means in product. * **Founder proximity.** You'll work directly with the CEO on the decisions that matter - the highest-leverage seat in the company for someone who wants to learn how to build one. * **Operator pace.** Small team, fast decisions, high trust. What you ship is live in front of customers, not stuck in a roadmap review. ## **Benefits** * Equity * Health insurance * Flexible time off * Remote-friendly ## Apply [Apply on Candidate Fyi]() Canonical job page: