Product Manager, Aperture

Role overview Shape the strategy and roadmap for an early-stage AI gateway that helps organizations manage how employees use language models. The product routes model traffic through an identity layer, giving technical teams visibility into usage and ways to enforce policy. As the first dedicated product manager for the area, you will bring customer focus and product discipline to a small team while helping establish the product’s direction and path to market.

Responsibilities - Set product priorities and maintain the roadmap with engineering and product leadership as the scope develops. - Work with design partners and customers to turn AI governance and security needs into clear requirements. - Partner with engineers to balance fast prototyping with the reliability expected of a product used in daily work. - Represent the product with customers, partners, and the technical community on enterprise AI adoption and governance. - Track adoption, usage, and other measures that help assess product-market fit. - Work with go-to-market and customer success teams on pricing and a repeatable sales approach.

Requirements - Three to five years of product management experience, or related technical customer-facing work, including meaningful early-stage or 0-to-1 product experience. - Comfort working with ambiguity and shifting priorities on a small team. - Experience building products for technical buyers such as IT, security, or platform teams. - Technical fluency sufficient to work closely with engineers and discuss identity, security, and AI agent workflows. - Strong written and verbal communication, including confidence representing a product externally.

Nice to have - Product experience in AI or LLM infrastructure, developer tools, identity, or security. - Familiarity with AI gateways, early-stage product pricing and sales, or public technical communication. - Hands-on use of mesh networking tools.

Benefits and work setup The position is remote-first. The listed U.S. base salary range is $156,000–$221,000, with equity and comprehensive benefits. Additional offerings include retirement contributions, paid time off, professional development support, home-office funding, and paid parental leave.