Product Lead, Internal Tools

The role

You will identify high-value problems across business functions and turn opportunities into working software. You will prototype, write code, and create automations and integrations using AI-assisted development tools.

What you will do

• Work with teams across Finance, HR, Recruiting, Growth, Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing, IT, and Security to understand workflows.
• Turn ambiguous requests into clear problem statements, user workflows, and scoped projects.
• Develop priorities to address quick wins, reusable platform capabilities, and longer-term internal systems.
• Build working prototypes, automations, and integrations using code, APIs, and AI-assisted tools.
• Partner with engineers to move solutions from prototype to production.
• Create reusable capabilities for data access, permissions, and integrations.
• Work full-time onsite in the Los Angeles office.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years in product management delivering software products or internal tools in high-ambiguity environments.
• Software engineering background with meaningful hands-on coding experience.
• Strong working knowledge of modern web applications, APIs, data models, integrations, authentication, permissions, and software architecture.
• Ability to interview business teams and use an IDE to test solutions.
• Strong product judgment.
• Ability to thrive in high-autonomy, ambiguous environments.
• Ability to take ambiguous business problems from discovery through implementation and adoption.
• Fluency with modern AI development workflows and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, or similar.

Nice to have

• Experience in a design-build software consultancy, internal-tools or enterprise-platform team, forward-deployed engineering organization
• Familiarity with systems such as ERP, CRM, QMS, manufacturing, or data platforms

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch
• No meeting Fridays
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a modern defense company with a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™). Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles.