Product Manager

ABOUT MANTLE We’re building an AI agent to help families support their aging parents (origin story here https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7358605175294496768/).   Over 40M “sandwich generation” Americans currently manage their parent’s affairs. Keeping mom/dad safe and supported is like a second job: it’s time-consuming, stressful and on top of their already busy lives. We believe that managing our parents’ affairs should feel under control, easier and lower stress.   Co-founded by serial entrepreneur partners including Ted Zagat https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedzagat, who sold his previous businesses to Slack (announcement here https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-acquisition-connecting-employees) and Google (Zagat restaurant guides). THE ROLE We are looking for a Product Manager to help turn Mantle's vision into a product families love. This is a high-impact role for someone who wants to shape a consumer AI product from its earliest days. You will work side-by-side with the founders, design and engineering to decide what we build, why, and in what order. This is a role for a builder. In the early days, product management at Mantle is less about roadmaps and process and more about getting close to families, finding the problems that matter most, and shipping solutions quickly. It's not just about strategy; it's about the unglamorous work of talking to users, writing crisp specs, triaging bugs and making sure nothing falls through the cracks between idea and launch. WHAT YOU'LL BUILD - Product discovery: Build a deep, ongoing understanding of the families we serve and the problems that matter most to them. - Product strategy and roadmap: Translate our vision into clear priorities, and make the tradeoffs that keep the team focused. - AI product experiences: Define how our agent behaves, what it does on a family's behalf, and how it earns their trust. - Launch and iteration: Take features from concept to launch, then measure, learn and improve them. - Product analytics: Establish the metrics and instrumentation that tell us what's working and what isn't. - Operating cadence: Shape how product, design and engineering plan, prioritize, communicate and deliver. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR REQUIRED EXPERIENCE - 4+ years of product management experience, ideally on consumer products - Track record of shipping consumer products end-to-end, from discovery to launch to iteration - Experience working closely with engineering and design in a fast-paced startup or high-growth environment - Strong analytical skills and comfort making data-informed decisions - AI adept: savvy with AI tools (LLMs, agents), and hands-on experience building AI-powered product experiences IDEAL BACKGROUND - Early-stage startup experience where you wore many hats - Experience building consumer products in sensitive, high-trust categories - Strong product sense and a clear instinct for what matters to users - Comfortable prototyping your own ideas with modern AI and design tools - Mission-driven: You care deeply about helping families navigate the complexities of aging - Nice to have, but not required: experience with FinTech WHO THRIVES HERE - Builders: You love creating things from scratch and taking full ownership - User-obsessed: You start every decision with the people we serve - Founder-minded: You think like an owner and care deeply about company outcomes - AI-forward: You embrace modern AI - Strategic and pragmatic: You see the big picture but are also willing to do the manual work required to get there - Great collaborator: You foster great working relationships - Autonomous: You thrive with minimal direction - Mission-driven: You care about what we're building WHAT YOU'LL GET - Meaningful work: Build a consumer product that will make a real difference in the lives of millions of families, with real ownership, fast pace, and huge financial potential - Founding scope: Shape our product strategy and culture from the very beginning - Partnership with founders: Work closely with Mantle's co-founders and other company leaders - Learning & growth: Opportunity to build a category-defining company from the ground up - Real ownership: Your decisions will shape our product, business and culture - Remote Fridays: Work from home every Friday. Monday through Thursday, we build together in person in San Francisco