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Founding Product Manager

Ploy - San Francisco, CA, USA - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-12

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Ploy is a marketing platform that transforms company websites into growth engines, helping teams from early-stage founders to growth-stage companies manage SEO, paid acquisition, CRO, ABM, and custom marketing workflows. The company is backed by First Round Capital and Y Combinator. As Ploy's first Product Manager, you will work directly with founder Bryant Chou and engineering leads to shape the product roadmap and own major initiatives from conception through launch. This is a central, high-leverage role on a lean team with significant influence over product direction and how the company builds. Key responsibilities include: - Improving the first-time user experience to help users identify relevant use cases and achieve tangible results in their initial session - Shaping how Ploy identifies opportunities and acts on them, from recommending next steps to running marketing workflows automatically - Designing how customers interact with Ploy's agents across the app and Slack, including context provision, work review, and autonomous execution decisions - Testing changes to pricing, packaging, and upgrade experiences to help customers derive more value as their needs evolve You will partner closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams, using customer feedback and product data to guide development priorities. You'll maintain close involvement post-launch, analyzing activation, conversion, and retention metrics to identify what's working and what requires iteration. The company operates in-person with offices in San Francisco (Financial District) and New York, requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. REQUIREMENTS: - 5+ years of relevant experience as a product manager, founder, engineer, or in another role building software products - Sharp technical acumen with experience in AI-powered products, agentic systems, and evaluation/improvement tools; understanding of how underlying technology shapes product quality and customer experience - Strong analytical skills to investigate product usage independently and use data alongside customer feedback for decision-making - AI fluency in your own work: using AI to investigate data, prototype ideas, and test assumptions with sound judgment to evaluate and improve outputs - Clear communication and strong working relationships; ability to explain thinking, provide useful feedback, and collaborate effectively with customers, engineers, and designers - Track record of shipping impactful products; ability to move quickly, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and take ownership of results PREFERRED: - Previous startup or high-growth company experience - Experience building AI products, agent workflows, or products with strong self-serve motion - Experience in the web and marketing space

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