Product Manager
🚀 Product Manager (Founding Team)
📍 Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)
💰 $100,000 – $170,000 + Equity
🌍 About the Opportunity
If Patreon is for memberships and Substack is for newsletters, we are building the platform for the Economy of Expertise.
We are creating a next-generation global product where deep, Q&A-driven conversations generate real economic value—think “Quora meets Patreon” for creators and experts.
After achieving strong product-market fit and scale overseas with 16M+ monthly active users, we are rebuilding the product from the ground up to lead the U.S. creator economy.
This is a rare opportunity to join the founding U.S. product team and work directly with the Founder & CEO to shape a global platform from 0→1 (and beyond).
🎯 Mission
As a Product Manager, you will drive product growth across global markets, including the United States and Japan.
In the near term, your focus will be expanding the product as a social Q&A / question-box platform, leading initiatives around:
- Payments and monetization
- Point and incentive systems
- Trust, safety, and moderation
You will translate business goals and user needs into products that creators and users love.
🛠 What You’ll Do
- Define product OKRs, Epics, and roadmaps aligned with business KPIs
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and user discovery
- Design customer journey maps, user stories, and wireframes for mobile and web
- Run fast PDCA / iteration cycles with engineering teams
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, and business teams (including teams in Japan)
- Build core product features side-by-side with the Founder & CEO
✅ What We’re Looking For
Required
- Strong product management experience for consumer-facing mobile/web platforms
- Ability to connect business objectives, user needs, and product execution
- Experience working closely with engineers and designers in agile environments
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous, early-stage environments
Preferred
- Experience with SNS, UGC, creator platforms, marketplaces, or fintech features
- Experience working with global or cross-border teams
- Startup or early-stage product experience
💡 Ideal Mindset
- You enjoy building from scratch, not inheriting finished systems
- You are hands-on, data-driven, and execution-focused
- You’re excited about working closely with founders and having real product ownership
- You care deeply about user experience and business impact
💰 Compensation & Equity
- Base Salary: $100,000 – $170,000 USD (depending on experience)
- Equity: Founding-level equity opportunity
- U.S. stock option plan currently being finalized
- Early employees will receive a meaningful initial grant