Plaud
Staff Product Manager - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will own user and product discovery for next-generation Plaud AI devices. You will define product experiences from first principles and work with cross-functional teams to turn requirements into system-level product definitions.
What you will do
- Own user and product discovery for next-generation Plaud AI devices
- Define the complete product experience from first principles
- Develop product theses, target users, key scenarios, value propositions, interaction models, product concepts, and success metrics
- Work closely with AI, Software, HCI, Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, and Shenzhen Hardware Product teams
- Validate product assumptions through users, prototypes, AI tools, experiments, usage data, and post-launch feedback
Required qualifications
- Proven ownership of at least one successful 0-to-1 consumer technology, connected-device, wearable, audio, smart hardware, or similar product
- Exceptional product sense and user insight
- Strong understanding of software and AI products
- Sufficient hardware systems knowledge to work effectively with engineering
- Strong ownership, structured thinking, communication, and ability to make high-quality decisions under ambiguity
- User research and product discovery
- AI product and workflow understanding
- End-to-end experience definition
- Strong product prioritization and trade-off judgment
- Data-informed product decision making
- Working understanding of electronics, mechanics, firmware, sensors, audio, connectivity, battery, compute, manufacturing, and reliability
- Ability to translate product experience into device capabilities and system requirements
Nice to have
- Experience building products that combine device + app/software + AI/cloud service + recurring revenue or subscription
- Strong track record serving North American professional or consumer users
- Experience in AI-native interaction, voice interfaces, agents, wearables, audio, ambient computing, or next-generation HCI
- Founder, early startup team, or zero-to-one product-team experience
- Demonstrated AI-native working style, including active use of LLMs for research, prototyping, specification, analysis, and product exploration
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching for full-time employees
- Unlimited PTO
- 13 paid holidays
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents
- Access to high-quality office snacks, drinks, and equipment
- Access to best-in-class AI tools
- Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices
- Annual company offsites and team events
About the company
Plaud is a San Francisco-based company building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence. It is a bootstrapped, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in three years.