Product Manager

About the company

Zavi Labs is creating Zavi, an AI product designed for founders and operators. The product is currently in a closed pilot stage, with a small team shipping improvements every week. It has not been publicly launched yet, and more details about the product will be shared during the interview process.

The team also operates Upcar, a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace. This live business gives the product work a real-world test environment every day. The company is bootstrapped and builds continuously.

Role overview

This is a product manager role for Zavi, where you will own both product demand and the product itself. Your scope runs from discovery through delivery and into the growth loop that drives adoption. You will begin in a highly hands-on capacity across multiple areas and gradually grow into broader ownership of the function.

The objective is straightforward: create something founders trust and get it into their hands. This is a zero-to-one role with broad responsibility. Early on, you will be expected to handle many different tasks, speak with users, write specifications, make difficult prioritization calls, and work directly with the founder, who builds alongside you in real time. The environment offers a high degree of ownership and autonomy, with a direct line to both the founder and the Head of Product.

What you will do

• Work directly on product development by speaking with founders, identifying the most important problem to solve, helping decide what should be built and why, writing clear product specifications, and driving launches.
• Focus on growth as well as the roadmap by thinking about distribution, activation, and retention, and by planning how Zavi will reach founders and earn adoption.
• Establish trust boundaries for an AI agent by defining what it means for the product to be dependable enough to charge for, and by deciding where human oversight should remain in place.
• Make tough prioritization calls in a fast-moving environment, cutting scope aggressively while shipping every week with a founder who codes daily and a small team.
• Set up measurement systems, monitor the funnel, and communicate the metrics that genuinely move the business rather than vanity indicators.
• Use AI tools every day to research, draft, prototype, and learn faster, while applying sound judgment about what an agent can and cannot be trusted to handle.

First 90 days

• Spend significant time in conversations with founders and produce a written assessment of the most important problems Zavi should tackle next.
• Put specifications into production, build a reliable operating rhythm with the founder and engineers, and keep product releases going out on a weekly basis.
• Identify one growth or distribution lever, make it move, and back it with a clear metric.
• Develop a practical point of view on what “reliable enough to charge for” means, and reflect that thinking in both the product and the order of work.

Scope of work

You will start with Zavi, the company’s zero-to-one AI product. You may also contribute to the growth of Upcar, the active peer-to-peer car rental marketplace, whenever that work becomes strategically important. The scope is broad and the impact is immediate.

Required experience and traits

The company is looking for someone who has spent 3 to 5 years in total professional experience, including at least 2 years in product management. You must have taken at least one product from an idea or blank page to a live product that people actually used, with direct involvement in deciding what to build and why. Experience working in early-stage, zero-to-one environments is required, along with a proven ability to move a growth or distribution metric such as activation, retention, adoption, a channel, or a funnel.

Strong communication is essential. You should be able to take a messy problem and turn it into a clear, structured direction. The role also calls for a scrappy, fast, self-directed working style, comfort with minimal instruction, and the ability to operate as a hands-on individual contributor in a chaotic, daily-shipping environment.

Strong advantages

• Regular use of AI tools for building and self-learning, along with a good sense of when to rely on an agent and when not to. Deep machine learning expertise is not required.
• Experience building for a B2B SaaS product, marketplace, or two-sided platform.
• Exposure to growth in US or Western markets, which are the company’s primary focus.
• Broader experience across product, growth, go-to-market, design, or founder-led business building.

What you get

• An opportunity to be the first product hire on a zero-to-one bet and work directly beside the founder.
• High ownership and real autonomy, with a founder who moves quickly and works at the same pace.
• A clear path to build and own the product function as the company scales.
• Competitive compensation.

Application process

Applications are reviewed quickly, and the team is speaking with candidates as they come in. Strong applicants can expect to hear back within a few days. The company asks applicants to complete two steps: submit an application through LinkedIn Easy Apply and also fill out a short form. Only candidates who complete the form will be reviewed; an Easy Apply submission by itself will not be considered.