Founding Principal Product Manager (0→1 / Vertical AI / Construction Tech) - Stealth AI
4 days ago
Boston
Job Description Overview We're hiring a Founding Principal Product Manager to work side-by-side with our CEO and founding team to define, ship, and scale an AI agent platform for construction project delivery. This is a founding role: you'll sit at the center of product, customer reality, and engineering execution. Owning the end-to-end journey from discovery to production rollout, and helping build the systems and culture that allow quality product to scale. Why Construction Construction is a multi-trillion-dollar sector, and inefficiency + rework represent a $175B+ annual value pool. We believe workflow orchestration and early risk detection can unlock step-change improvements in cost, speed, and quality for the teams that deliver the built world. Why Now: LLMs, agentic workflows, and computer vision have reached a capability threshold that makes it possible to automate the painful, high-stakes document workflows construction teams have relied on manual review to catch for decades. We're starting with procurement and submittal packages — catching errors before they become million-dollar field mistakes. These are just the first two use cases of what a multi-agent AI platform for construction could solve. Why Join Us: Being AI-native means we're not constrained by legacy assumptions about what construction tech should look like. Our team members came from the best technology companies, and together we have an opportunity to build the operating system for construction from the ground up. We pair this with empathy and deep understanding of our users' pain: • We have talked to 80+ users to-date. We build with users, not for them., • We have access to proprietary datasets provided by our design partners, which is a typical bottle neck for AI startups. You'll partner directly with the CEO, engineering, and design partners to: • Run discovery in a complex, relationship-driven industry, • Translate messy workflows into crisp product bets, • Ship AI-powered features that users trust in production This role is ideal for someone who is deeply self-motivated—someone who doesn't wait for instructions, but instead pushes through walls with urgency, curiosity, and strong judgment. What You'll DriveCEO Partnership & Execution Urgency • Operate as a true thought partner to the CEO: clarify what matters, what wins, and what ships next, • Drive crisp sequencing and tradeoffs in an ambiguous 0→1 environment, • Keep execution grounded in real user needs, technical constraints, and business outcomesProduct Discovery & Customer Development, • Run continuous discovery with rigor (Teresa Torres / MOM Test discipline), • Turn ambiguity into clear hypotheses, success metrics, and shippable experiments, • Build tight learning loops between discovery → build → ship → iterateDesign Partner Relationships, • Build and maintain high-trust partnerships with external customers and SMEs, • Balance "give/get" well: deliver value while driving toward product truth, • Keep partnerships advancing through tight follow-up, clarity, and momentumAI Product Craft (Production, Not Demos), • Ship and refine LLM-powered workflows users rely on daily, • Build systematic evals, test sets, and quality metrics—not just prompt tweaks, • Design for failure modes, fallbacks, trust UX, and cost/latency tradeoffsSpeed + Quality + Stability Culture, • Help the team balance learning velocity with reliability, • Avoid "patchwork prototypes" that collapse under real usage, • Build a product culture of testing assumptions and measuring outcomesProduct as the Whole Customer Experience, • Own the end-to-end journey: onboarding, deployment, support, communication—not just UI, • Ensure customers feel trust, clarity, and momentum working with the companyWhat You BringBuilder DNA, • ~5–9 years of hands-on product experience, • Multiple 0→1 builds or true early-stage ownership, • High agency and hunger: you make things happen without being asked, • Unrelenting need to succeed, • Strong judgment under imperfect information, • You move fast, but care deeply about craft, edge cases, and reliability, • You build systems (evals, metrics, feedback loops) so quality scales beyond heroicsDiscovery Excellence, • Deeply customer-oriented, with strong discovery methodology, • Able to learn complex domains quickly through structured customer development, • Skilled at turning messy workflows into crisp product directionAI-Native Operator + Genuine Curiosity, • Recent experience (last ~2 years) shipping/refining LLM-powered business software, • Excited by AI at a personal level—you actively test new models/tools and look for leverage, • Comfortable with exec-level stakeholders and real-world operators, • Strong at advancing design partnerships over time We also value builders from similarly complex verticals (healthcare, fintech, insurance, logistics, legal, industrials, real estate, etc.) where workflows are messy, data is imperfect, and trust matters. Why This Role • Founding ownership + direct CEO partnership, • Day-1 access to real customers, SMEs, and high-fidelity datasets, • Stackpoint ecosystem support and proven playbook for vertical AI execution, • Opportunity to build the AI-native operating system for construction project delivery