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8VC · 9 hours ago

Founding Product Manager (Applied AI) - Thorin

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Thorin is an AI startup incubated at 8VC, focused on solving AI-human coordination through organizational email analysis. The Founding Product Manager will define the product from first principles and own the product direction end-to-end, ensuring that powerful capabilities are developed for enterprise leaders.

FinanceFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Product ManagementAI SystemsEnterprise InfrastructureTechnical FluencyProject ManagementProcess ModelingOperational AnalyticsCustomer DiscoveryCommunication Skills

Required

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

Preferred

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

Company

8VC

8VC invests in innovative technologies that create economic and societal value.

Founded in 2015

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

http://www.8vc.com

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