Description
You won’t manage roadmaps. You'll shape the thinking that defines them. This role isn’t about backlogs or sprint reviews. It’s about deciding what should exist, and why.
This role puts you in the founder’s brainspace. You’ll work directly with the creator of Ephor.ai, a cutting-edge AI education platform, translating ambitious vision into product clarity that engineering teams can build against. No gatekeeping layers. No diluted direction. Just high-trust, high-impact collaboration on an AI-native product redefining how people learn.
At Trilogy, we build products differently. We don’t ship feature factories — we ship thinking. And Ephor.ai demands the best of it. It’s not just another app with “AI” slapped on. It’s a platform of intelligent agents, multi-model orchestration, and real-time knowledge synthesis. Your job is to make the strategy behind it unavoidable: strategic briefs, decision narratives, reframes, pivots, and evolutions that move the product forward with clarity and conviction.
This is a remote role with timezone flexibility, but you’ll need 2–3 hours of daily overlap with U.S. business hours to stay closely connected to the work.
If you need KPIs on day one, a pre-written roadmap, or a manager to define success for you — this role will break you.
But if you thrive in ambiguity, and can carve clarity from chaos by writing, thinking, and collaborating with conviction — you might just do the best work of your life here.
What you will be doing
- Writing crisp, high-leverage strategic product briefs that translate founder vision into executable clarity for engineering teams.
- Framing complex product decisions with tradeoff analysis, user impact, and recommended paths forward.
- Identifying strategic pivots or reframes by synthesizing user signals, technical constraints, and AI capabilities.
- Documenting product principles and evolving them into AI-aligned knowledge structures that scale understanding across the team.
- Working directly with the founder to challenge, clarify, and sharpen product direction — building trust through clarity and outcomes.
What you will NOT be doing
- Managing sprint boards, story points, or delivery cadences — you are not a project manager.
- Playing telephone across middle management layers — you’ll interface directly with decision-makers.
- Shipping feature checklists with no strategic spine — your work is the spine.
- Babysitting dev teams or micromanaging execution — your influence is earned through clarity, not control.
- Conforming to 9–5 EST — timezone flexibility is real, with only 2–3 hours of U.S. overlap required.
Key responsibilities
Translate founder vision into crisp product strategy that aligns teams, clarifies decisions, and shapes the future of AI-powered learning.
Candidate requirements
- 6+ years of experience in product strategy, product management, consulting, or business development roles, with increasing strategic ownership and executive collaboration.
- Recent experience as a Senior Product Manager, Strategy Lead, or Chief of Staff in a high-growth, founder-led company.
- Demonstrated ability to translate high-level vision into actionable product direction — with clear positioning, tradeoffs, and delivery paths.
- Direct experience working with a founder in a startup or entrepreneurial setting — translating vision into strategy and thriving in ambiguity, speed, and high-trust decision-making environments.
- Proven ability to influence product direction through structured strategic writing — including briefs, narratives, and positioning documents.
- Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and complexity — this is not a process-driven PM role.
- Strong, hands-on AI fluency — you've built with LLMs or applied AI to accelerate product thinking and are familiar with MCP, agentic workflows, and orchestration frameworks.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication — this is a doc-led, not meeting-led, role.
- Availability for 2–3 hours of daily overlap with U.S. business hours.
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