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Code Metal is the leader in automated software engineering using formal methods to verify AI-generated code. The company works with customers including the U.S. Air Force, L3Harris, RTX, and Toshiba to modernize legacy code, optimize performance, and move prototypes to production. Founded in 2023 with offices in Boston and San Francisco, Code Metal is backed by Accel, Salesforce Ventures, B Capital, and others.
Code Metal is hiring its first Head of Product to own the company's product strategy, organization, and operating model. This person will report directly to the CEO and work at the intersection of Engineering, customers, and go-to-market to translate Code Metal's powerful foundational technology into products that solve clear customer problems and drive adoption.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define product strategy and vision for Code Metal's platform, establishing clear investment priorities
- Own the product direction and evolution of the platform, creating a coherent experience across technical capabilities
- Lead zero-to-one product development: identify customer problems, develop new products, validate with customers, and drive market launch
- Build disciplined customer discovery processes to translate engineering-led customer requirements into durable product insights
- Establish mechanisms for product and engineering prioritization across customer commitments, platform investments, and strategic opportunities
- Determine how Code Metal's capabilities are packaged, positioned, and commercialized
- Partner with Growth and Sales to create product narratives, use cases, competitive positioning, and technical enablement
- Participate directly in strategic customer conversations to help Sales understand requirements and customers understand technical and business value
- Serve as primary product counterpart to Engineering and technical leadership
- Build a high-leverage, technically credible Product organization
Requirements:
- 10+ years of B2B technology experience, including 5+ years leading scaled Product organizations
- True builder comfortable with ambiguity, incomplete information, and immature organizational structures
- Highly technical product executive who understands complex technical systems and can challenge assumptions
- Hands-on operator comfortable working without a large Product organization; expect to personally conduct customer discovery, write strategy, pressure-test requirements, and drive prioritization
- Strong product taste to distinguish between customer requests, repeatable product needs, and strategic platform investments
- Commercially minded; understands product leadership includes helping the company sell, package, and communicate technology
- Comfortable making hard prioritization decisions and saying no
- Low ego and highly collaborative across Engineering, Growth, Sales, Solutions, and forward-deployed teams
- Personal experience taking a deeply technical product from ground zero to market (not inheriting mature products)
- Experience partnering closely with Sales to commercialize products, including direct customer conversations
- Strong experience working with deeply technical engineering organizations and earning credibility with engineers and technical founders
- Experience translating emerging technical capabilities into repeatedly sold and deployed products
- Experience establishing product-market fit, not simply scaling after PMF
- Ideally has built products for developers, engineers, security teams, infrastructure teams, or other highly technical users
