Staff Product Manager

About Valence

We're the only company pioneering leadership coaching for large enterprises in an AI-first way. Our mission is to transform how the world's biggest companies approach learning and development, helping teams work better together through AI-powered personalization that adapts to individual goals and organizational culture using the latest advances in machine learning and natural language processing.

We've been featured in Harvard Business Review, TIME, World Economic Forum, Financial Times, Forbes and an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America. Our clients represent the most diverse and sophisticated enterprise AI implementations globally, including Coca-Cola, Delta, Nestlé, General Mills, Schneider Electric, Deutsche Telekom, AstraZeneca, Prudential, CVS and Bristol Myers Squibb.

The Role

This is a chance to own a strategic bet, not a backlog. As a Staff PM you'll take an ambiguous, company-level bet and turn it into shipped outcomes across multiple projects, deciding what we invest in, what we drop, and what "good" means along the way. This role is exciting because:

• Real ownership, not coordination: You'll own a multi-project bet from concept to adoption. You decompose it, sequence it, and answer for the outcome, often without a PM manager above you.
• Judgment is the job: AI has collapsed the cost of specs, prototypes, and analyses. What's scarce now is taste and the willingness to make hard calls under ambiguity. That's what we're hiring for.
• You'll multiply, not just ship: Other PMs will cite your judgment. The standards you set for how we scope, launch, and close the loop will outlive any single project.
• AI-native from day one: We're building from first principles, not layering AI onto legacy systems, and you'll work that way too, with AI doing the bulk of analysis, prototyping, and synthesis while you do the framing and the deciding.
• High performing PDE culture: We operate as a tight, collaborative product-design-engineering team with intentional practices that make distributed work effective and energizing.

This is a generic Staff PM role. We'll match you to a specific bet based on your strengths and where the company needs the most leverage.

What You'll Do

• Own a strategic bet that spans multiple projects, from concept through adoption, including the metric it's accountable to
• Develop and evangelize the strategy for that bet over months, build executive conviction on it, and defend your recommendations under pressure
• Set the product taste bar across the bet: talk to customers directly, walk the flows, and hold a clear POV on what great looks like
• Design workflows where AI does the bulk of the analysis, prototyping, and synthesis, and set the verification standards that keep that work honest
• Self-serve your own answers: write your own SQL, run your own analyses in Metabase and Amplitude, prototype in Claude/Devin/Lovable when that's the fastest path to a real answer
• Improve how the org ships: planning rituals, post-launch reviews, prioritization loops, and the systemic bottlenecks nobody has owned yet

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of product management experience, including a track record of owning multi-project, strategic bets end-to-end
• Evidence you can turn ambiguity into a shipped outcome: you've taken something with no playbook and made it real
• Demonstrated ability to build executive conviction and land tough no's, including upward
• A history of shipping fast on small teams, where you did the work yourself rather than directing others to do it
• Fluency with data: you pull it, model it, and use it to pressure-test your own ideas rather than confirm them
• Daily, sophisticated use of AI in your own workflow, and a clear-eyed view of where it fails: hallucinated metrics, vibe-coded prototypes, plausible-but-wrong output
• Experience developing other PMs, formally or informally
• Bonus if you've worked on conversational, LLM-powered, or agentic products, or sold into large enterprises

You Thrive When You're

• Making hard calls with incomplete information, then updating fast when the evidence contradicts you
• Collaborating intensively, thinking out loud, riffing with eng and design, and building on others' ideas
• Picking the right artifact for the job (a PRD, a Loom, a prototype, or a one-paragraph hypothesis), and never the wrong one out of habit
• Going back to the data after launch and reading it honestly, including when it says you were wrong
• Multiplying through frameworks, rituals, and coaching rather than doing everything yourself

This Isn't the Right Fit If You

Need a defined roadmap handed to you, or a manager to unblock you

• Measure your contribution in specs written or features launched rather than outcomes moved
• Prefer long stretches of solo, heads-down work
• Want clearly defined swim lanes and minimal ambiguity
• Need large teams or heavy processes to feel productive
• Insist on hand-writing every PRD and analysis

What you'll get

Ownership & Rapid Growth

• Outsized missions from day one, with direct responsibility for company-defining projects
• Work alongside the executive team with transparency into strategy and decision-making
• Influence on direction through real-time customer feedback and market insights

AI-First Operator

• Work directly with cutting-edge AI models and next-generation platforms
• Build expertise in enterprise AI implementation across Fortune 500 companies and multiple industries
• Establish yourself as a recognized leader among peers in shaping how AI transforms work at a global scale

Compensation

• Competitive salary including base + bonuses
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) from day one
• Generous PTO, company-wide R&R shutdowns, and paid parental leave
• Retirement plan support for US and global employees

Equity

• Meaningful ownership in a venture-backed company at a growth inflection point
• Financial upside that comes from scaling fast
• Top-up grants as we scale and you deliver exceptional performance — your compensation grows alongside your impact

Top-Performing Culture

• A culture built for top talent: intensity to win, growth without limits, and a team that solves hard problems and celebrates big wins together

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