Founding Product Manager (Applied AI) - Thorin

• Own Thorin’s product vision and roadmap across visibility, process modeling, guardrails, and agentic execution
• Define the core abstractions of the Thorin platform — what a “process,” “policy,” “metric,” and “agent” mean in a living enterprise system
• Partner deeply with AI Engineers to shape agent behavior, evaluation frameworks, reliability thresholds, and iteration loops
• Work hand-in-hand with Infrastructure leadership to ensure product decisions meet enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scalability requirements
• Collaborate with Product Engineers to design and ship intuitive user experiences on top of complex AI systems
• Lead customer discovery with design partners and early enterprise adopters, translating messy operational reality into clear product direction

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience building and owning complex software products, ideally in enterprise, platform, or infrastructure-adjacent domains
• Proven ability to operate as a founding or early-stage PM, defining product direction in the absence of precedent
• Strong technical fluency — you can reason about AI systems, distributed infrastructure, and product tradeoffs without needing abstraction layers. - CS degree strongly preferred
• Experience working closely with engineers on systems where reliability, trust, and correctness matter
• Exceptional product judgment — you can turn ambiguous, high-stakes problems into crisp product decisions
• Comfort with uncomfortable ambiguity — you enjoy operating without playbooks
• Clear, structured project management and communication skills — you can align engineers, customers, and leadership around a shared product vision

Bonus:

• Experience with AI-native, agentic, or automation-heavy products
• Familiarity with enterprise workflows
• Background in process modeling, operational analytics, or enterprise systems of record
• Prior experience selling or deploying products into large enterprises

About the Team & Why Thorin

• Work closely with a small, highly driven founding team, design partners, and directly with Joe Lonsdale, who remains deeply involved in product vision, strategy, and hiring
• Operate with high agency, rapid iteration, and direct customer exposure from day one
• Help define how a category-defining AI company goes to market from first principles
• Build with the backing of one of the strongest early-stage venture platforms in the industry