Founding Product Manager

September 21, 2026

Office

Senior

San Francisco

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Description

Metto is an early-stage AI startup building a decision layer for shopping, turning search, product pages, and shopper questions into personalized guidance for retailers. The Founding Product Manager owns product vision, strategy, and roadmap across shopper and retailer experiences, working closely with the founders, engineering, design, and retail partners. The role starts with fashion and beauty commerce and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It offers a base salary of $200,000–$225,000 plus meaningful equity and benefits.

Responsibilities

Own Metto's product vision, strategy, and roadmap across shopper and retailer experiences
Work directly with shoppers, brands, and retailers to find high-value problems and translate them into focused features and MVPs
Partner across engineering, design, sales, and marketing to shape, ship, and troubleshoot the product
Balance customer experience with technical feasibility and business viability
Prototype, test, and measure new ideas, using feedback and data to decide what to improve, scale, or stop
Ship quickly to learn quickly without losing sight of the details that build customer trust

Requirements

5+ years of product management or hands-on product-building experience with strong ownership and judgment in retail or ecommerce
A track record of launching zero-to-one products and turning ambiguous ideas into focused, testable experiences
Technical fluency with AI products, including the ability to prototype MVPs
A proactive startup mindset: comfortable researching, writing, prototyping, prioritizing, and contributing beyond a traditional PM remit
Clear, collaborative communication with founders, engineers, designers, customers, and retailer partners
Nice to have: experience building search, personalization, recommendations, or conversational products
Nice to have: experience at an early-stage startup, on an incubation team, or taking a product from first hypothesis to repeatable adoption
Nice to have: familiarity with retailer catalogs, product information management, ecommerce platforms, merchandising systems, marketplaces, or API integrations
Nice to have: hands-on ability with SQL, analytics, lightweight prototyping, or AI-assisted product development
Nice to have: genuine interest in fashion, beauty, retail, culture, taste, or the psychology of how people choose what to buy

Conditions

Full-time role on the founding team
Strong preference for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, office in San Francisco
Meaningful early-stage equity
Health benefits and generous PTO
Base salary $200,000–$225,000 plus equity and benefits

AI productsMVP prototypinge-commerce / retailSQLanalyticsAPI integrations

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