Founding Product Manager
typesafe ai is hiring a Founding Product Manager in San Francisco, United States. It pays $204k-$285k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on typesafe ai.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this AI product manager role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Pay on this posting starts 15% higher than the typical AI product manager posting on Level.
- The posting mentions visa sponsorship.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- typesafe ai has 16 other open roles on Level.
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About TypeSafe
We’re building prod, not god. TypeSafe is an AI lab pushing frontier model intelligence in a new direction, starting with System One Models. We combine the reasoning of LLMs with the reliability of code, for truly trustworthy AI. Our first model, Jev, launched in September 2026.
While others chase leaderboards, we’re rebuilding the LLM stack from first principles to make models smarter and also dependable enough to run in production. We’re a small, fast team backed by an $870M Series A led by a16z. Made in SF, with love. Come join the frontier.
About the role
As our first Product Manager at TypeSafe, you'll help shape the product direction and experience of bringing Jev and future products to enterprise customers. You'll work closely with our CEO and engineering teams to bring frontier AI capabilities to more developers.
This is a rare opportunity to define an exciting new AI product from the ground up. You'll be responsible for translating rapidly evolving model capabilities into compelling product experiences, identifying what to build next, and driving execution from early ideas through launch and iteration.
We're looking for someone with exceptional product taste, strong technical intuition, and the ability to move quickly in a highly ambiguous environment. You'll need to think strategically about where Jev should be headed while being equally comfortable diving into product details, talking to developers, analyzing usage data, and shipping improvements.
As an early member of the team, you'll have significant ownership and influence over both our product and how we build.
We expect that you
Are responsible, ownership-inclined, and a team player – this is an IC role, you believe there is no such thing as "not my problem", and you will happily roll up your sleeves to get things done
Have experience building and shipping technical products from 0 to 1, ideally for developers
Have worked on building for enterprise customers and understand the b2b product development process
Have strong technical intuition and can go deep with engineers on architecture, tradeoffs, and product decisions
Have exceptional product taste and can turn user feedback into clear priorities and product requirements
Are comfortable moving fast, working hard, and making decisions with incomplete information
Are mission aligned and excited to go all-in
Love being part of a team
We are hoping that you
Have previously built products for developers and for enterprises
Have 5+ years of product management experience, ideally building highly technical products at a company with a high product and engineering bar
Have taken products from 0 to 1 and scaled them
Have experience building developer-facing products, APIs, or infrastructure tools, and understand what makes for a great developer experience
Life at TypeSafe
We’re a small, flat, close-knit team working to make intelligence dependable enough to become part of everyday software. We work fully in person from our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care deeply about the work.
We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won’t stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow—as a team and as individuals.
We value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don’t try to be machines.
We want TypeSafe to be the place where you do the most impactful work of your career and help define our future as a company.
We provide
100% covered health insurance
Daily lunch and dinner
Visa sponsorships
401K plans
How we rate this
Founding Product Manager at typesafe ai rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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