Principal Product Manager $400,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
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Description
Are you ready to stop translating features into tickets and translate founder brainwaves into a strategy that ships instead?
What you will be doing
- Writing strategic product briefs that turn founder vision into multiple viable directions with tradeoffs, implications, and a clear path forward.
- Producing decision narratives that clarify complex product calls, contextualize the stakes, and enable execution without additional meetings.
- Developing durable frameworks (“BrainLifts”) that document evolving product principles, sharpen AI/human collaboration, and scale institutional memory.
- Surfacing bold pivots or reframes based on user signals, internal constraints, and market shifts — and backing them with structured rationale.
- Partnering with executives to stress-test assumptions, challenge defaults, and evolve product thinking through high-trust written collaboration.
What you will NOT be doing
- Managing sprint boards, planning MVPs, or defining success with OKRs — this is not an execution role.
- Relying on weekly syncs or founder access to get unblocked — your writing is your influence.
- Shipping surface-level “AI features” — your fluency must shape the product, not just speed it up.
- Watering down strategy into documentation — your work is the thinking, not the artifact.
- Delivering what’s asked — you’ll often need to propose something better.
Key responsibilities
Use strategic writing to turn ambiguity into product clarity — shaping direction, influencing decisions, and enabling AI-native execution without process overhead.
Candidate requirements
- 6+ years in product strategy, product management, or executive-level roles that involved ownership of the “what and why,” not just the “how and when.”
- 2+ years working directly with a founder or executive in high-trust, unstructured settings to translate evolving vision into actionable product strategy.
- 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.
- 2–3 examples of strategic writing that show structured thinking, original framing, and clear articulation of tradeoffs (e.g. briefs, narratives, reframes).
- A history of thriving in low-structure environments and creating clarity from chaos — without waiting for consensus or permission.
- Ability to influence through documents, not access — you’ve built trust through clarity, not control.
- 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.
How it works
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STEP 1
Chat-style screening interview.
STEP 2
Cognitive aptitude test.
STEP 3
Prove real-world job skills.
STEP 4
Interview with the hiring manager.
STEP 5
Accept Job Offer.
ONE LAST THING
Pass proctored test.
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