Vanilla Technologies - Senior Product Manager
Requirements
• 5+ years in product management, with direct ownership of shipping features • Experience working with commercial SaaS products, including embedded AI - ideally with hands-on familiarity (prompting, testing models, using AI tools to validate assumptions) • Comfortable turning messy, ambiguous problem spaces into structured, incremental delivery plans • Demonstrated ability to work closely with engineering and understand tradeoffs (latency, accuracy, model behavior, retrieval constraints) • Demonstrable use of AI tools in your own workflow (analysis, spec writing, research, QA) • Strong analytical skills and comfort working directly with data (SQL, Mixpanel, Looker, or similar is a plus) • Excellent written communication—you can write fast, clearly, and with enough precision for engineers to execute • Experience at startups, scale-ups, or any environment where velocity and autonomy matter • Experience in a SaaS company shipping commercial grade software • Familiarity with LLMs, associated architectures, or prompt engineering at a working level • Exposure to or experience in fintech, wealthtech, or regulated industries • Background in B2B SaaS serving professional users (advisors, attorneys, accountants) • You've worked in high demand and velocity environments • ✅ YOU MIGHT BE A GREAT FIT IF • Curious by default. You dig into how things work, especially when they're new. • Comfortable with "we don't know yet" as a starting point. • Direct. You say what you think, ask hard questions, and don't hide behind process. • Bias toward action. You'd rather ship and learn than wait for perfect information. • Grounded. You care about users, not just features • The salary range for this role is $170,000 to $180,000. Our compensation packages also include a performance based bonus and equity. Compensation is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Responsibilities
• Translate high-level direction into clear, buildable scopes without waiting for perfect inputs • Partner with product leadership on priorities, then own the execution end-to-end • Write crisp, detailed requirements and user stories that anticipate edge cases, failure states, and dependencies • Work closely with engineering to break work down, remove blockers, and keep momentum high • Define success metrics and build lightweight dashboards or queries to monitor them • Lead discovery yourself—interviews, workflow mapping, quick validation loops • Collaborate with design to rapidly prototype, test, and refine interaction patterns • Identify opportunities for simplification across the product workflows and contribute to architectural cleanup • Champion AI internally by using it in your workflow and helping teammates adopt AI-first processes • Find valuable ways to embed AI into the product experience to delight our customers. • Drive alignment across engineering, design, and GTM so shipped work stays coherent and connected • Ship quickly, measure, learn, and iterate
Benefits
• Flexible paid time off policy and 10 company-wide paid holidays • Parental leave, 4 weeks for all full-time employees and up to 12 weeks for birthing parents • Medical, dental, and vision benefits coverage for employees and their families • 401K eligibility after one month of employment • Free estate planning documents • Budget for learning & development and home office setup • Paid parking or transit for hybrid and in office employees
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