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Technical Product Manager, Founding team

Aviator· Product
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San Francisco, CA$140k - $180kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Google-level engineering productivity suite. Founding PM role to shape Aviator’s product in SF, working closely with the founders.

Responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap for a product area end to end—starting with Verify—from problem discovery to launch to adoption.
  • Write clear, opinionated specs. We build spec-driven products, and we work that way too: your specs are what our engineers and agents build from.
  • Prototype ideas yourself with coding agents to test them with users before committing engineering time.
  • Run discovery with platform, infra and DevEx teams at our customers, and separate the one-off request from the pattern across ten customers.
  • Partner with the founders on positioning, pricing and packaging, and with engineering on scope and trade-offs.
  • Define what success looks like for each launch and instrument it. Kill or double down based on what the numbers say.
  • Help shape how we talk about the product: launch posts, docs, demos and the occasional conference talk.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of product management on developer tools, infrastructure or a technical B2B product—or a software engineering background and the itch to own the "what" and "why."
  • Built something for developers before—a dev tool, API, platform, internal tooling or open-source project—and seen firsthand how engineers adopt it, or ignore it.
  • Shipped products from zero to one, ideally at an early-stage startup. You're comfortable with unknowns and low structure.
  • Real technical depth. You know how CI, code review and merge workflows work, and you can read a PR and follow an architecture discussion.
  • Hands-on fluency with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. You use them daily, and you have opinions about where they fall short.
  • Strong written communication. You can explain a subtle failure mode to a staff engineer and its business impact to a VP in the same meeting.
  • Genuine energy for talking to customers. Hearing how engineers actually work energizes you rather than draining you.
  • Experience working with platform or DevEx teams, selling to enterprises, or working inside a large monorepo is a plus.

Skills

Required:Product management for developer toolsTechnical depth in CI/code review/merge workflowsPrototype with coding agentsAI coding tools fluencyCommunicationCustomer discovery / user research

Benefits

  • Health/Dental/Vision
  • Unlimited vacation policy
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Aviator

Google-level engineering productivity suite

Aviator is a developer tool that automates merge workflows and keeps builds healthy. Engineers save up to 5 hours a week and avoid frustration of broken builds. Our users include Slack, Bosch, Lightspeed, Square, Benchling, Figma and many others. For instance, Slack went from 180 master-build failures per quarter to just 1 build failure when they started using Aviator. Our goal is to become the leading brand for developer experience.

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