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Founding Product Lead

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define product strategy, roadmap, and vision for an AI-powered developer platform that converts natural language into working software.

Role type

Founding Product Lead (IC)

Builds

AI developer tools and platform features for software engineering teams

Domain

Developer tools / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Product strategy, customer discovery, roadmap planning, AI/LLM product experience, technical fluency (APIs, architecture), user experience design, data-driven decision making

Preferred skills

Founding team experience, developer tools background, software engineering background, TypeScript/React/Python/LLM APIs/RAG knowledge, product-led growth experience, team hiring

Technologies

TypeScript, React, Python, LLM APIs, RAG, agent workflows

Responsibilities

Define product vision and roadmap with co-founders; conduct customer discovery and validate demand with developers; translate problems into product briefs and acceptance criteria; define AI-human collaboration workflows and trust/security requirements; establish success metrics and feedback loops; help build founding team culture and hire product/design talent

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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