About Zeno AI
Zeno AI helps people rehearse high-stakes conversations before they happen.
We launched in May 2026 with a voice-based AI interviewer that runs realistic mock interviews, scores candidates with recruiter-grade rigor, and gives concrete coaching tied to specific moments in the conversation.
Today, over 200 candidates and a handful of companies use Zeno. We’re starting with interview prep, but the broader vision is to help people prepare for any high-stakes conversation: sales pitches, fundraising calls, negotiations, performance reviews, podcasts, panels, and more.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Founding Product Manager to help shape the product experience, user strategy, and growth direction behind Zeno.
You’ll work directly with the founders to understand users, define product priorities, turn feedback into features, and help build a product people genuinely rely on before important conversations. This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to operate close to the product, customers, and strategy of an early-stage AI company.
You should be comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, user research, product writing, and translating messy customer needs into clear product decisions. We care less about perfect credentials and more about whether you can think clearly, move fast, and help us build something users love.
What You’ll Do
Talk to users regularly to understand pain points, behavior, and product gaps
Help define Zeno’s product roadmap across mock interviews, feedback, scoring, personalization, and future conversation-prep use cases
Translate user feedback into clear product specs, wireframes, workflows, and priorities
Work closely with engineering to ship new features quickly and iterate based on usage
Improve the onboarding, interview setup, feedback, and post-session coaching experience
Help design evaluation flows for interview quality, scoring accuracy, and user progress
Analyze user sessions, conversion funnels, retention, and qualitative feedback
Support growth experiments across waitlist users, job seekers, recruiters, schools, and companies
Help position Zeno clearly through landing pages, product copy, emails, demos, and user education
Own product areas end-to-end, from discovery to launch to iteration
Help define the product culture, customer obsession, and operating rhythm of the company
What We’re Looking For
Strong product sense and ability to understand what users actually need
Experience building, launching, or managing products, side projects, startups, or communities
Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear product requirements and priorities
Comfortable talking to users, running interviews, and synthesizing feedback
Strong written communication and product storytelling
Interest in AI products, voice interfaces, recruiting, career development, or communication coaching
Ability to move quickly without overcomplicating decisions
Analytical mindset and comfort using data to guide product choices
Self-starter mindset with high ownership and low ego
Comfort working in a small, fast-moving team
Nice to Have
Experience with AI products, LLMs, voice agents, or conversational interfaces
Experience working with engineers, designers, or technical founders
Experience with Figma, analytics tools, Notion, Linear, Supabase, PostHog, Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar tools
Experience with recruiting, HR tech, career platforms, edtech, sales enablement, or coaching products
Experience running growth experiments or launching early user acquisition campaigns
Experience writing product specs, UX copy, landing pages, or customer-facing messaging
Previous startup, founder, or early-stage product experience
Comfort reviewing AI-generated outputs, scoring systems, or feedback loops
Interest in building products for job seekers, students, professionals, recruiters, and companies
Logistics
Full-time preferred, but open to exceptional part-time candidates
Remote OK
NYC or SF preferred, but not required
Early-stage role with meaningful equity
Compensation depends on experience and commitment level
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