Founding Product Manager (IIT/NIT/BITS)

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 3+ years

Location: India, Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

Looking for a Product Manager who wants to build, not just manage. This is a zero-to-one, high-ownership role where you work directly with the founders and own the product lifecycle end to end — discover, build, test, distribute. You'll be in Figma, in the analytics, in the prototype, in the customer call. If you enjoy structured roadmaps, long planning cycles, and delegation, this role is not for you.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Own product problems end-to-end — from identifying the opportunity to shipping, scaling, and getting the solution into users' hands.
• Operate with extreme speed: weekly shipping beats perfect planning.
• Use AI tools aggressively to prototype, validate, and move faster than traditional product teams.
• Work hands-on across design (Figma), analytics, and product workflows — not through handoffs.
• Scope new features and improvements by pulling insights from customer conversations, usage data, and the market landscape.
• Run experiments, iterate fast, and drive measurable impact on core product metrics.
• Collaborate deeply with engineering and the founders: no silos, no throwing specs over the wall.

Qualifications

• Engineering Degree from a Top IIT, NIT, BITS
• 3–5 years building products, preferably at early-stage startups.
• Strong bias for action and ownership — you don't wait for direction, you build.
• Comfortable getting your hands dirty across design, analytics, and execution.
• Working fluency with Figma, Mixpanel or Amplitude, and Linear or Jira.
• Experience with both B2B and B2C products is a strong plus.
• Ability to think from first principles and make progress on ambiguous, undefined problems.
• High agency, high curiosity, and a genuine sense of urgency.

Required Skills

Product discovery, Zero-to-one product building, Figma, Mixpanel / Amplitude, Linear / Jira, AI-assisted prototyping, Experimentation & A/B testing, Product analytics, Customer research, Roadmap prioritization, Cross-functional collaboration, B2B SaaS, First-principles problem solving, Rapid iteration, Go-to-market execution

Benefits & Perks

• Direct, daily access to the founders — you're building with them, not reporting up to them.
• Genuine zero-to-one ownership on a product still defining its category.
• Meaningful ESOPs in a fast-growing startup.
• Freedom to use the best AI tooling available to move faster.
• Small team, no bureaucracy — your decisions ship the same week.

Hiring Process

• Stage 1: Apply and submit the application form
• Stage 2: Attempt AI interview (15 min)
• Stage 3: R0: Telephonic Interview with Recruiting Team
• Stage 4: R1:  Interview with Leadership Team
• Stage 5: R2:  Interview with Co-founders

Must-have skills

Product Manager, SaaS, AI

Good-to-have skills

Founding team, end to end