Founding Head of Product (Stackpoint Portfolio Company)

Job Description

Job Description

(Portfolio Company Role)

This is a founding-level product role inside one of Stackpoint's early-stage portfolio companies. We hire multiple Founding Heads of Product each year—if you want real ownership, real impact, and to build alongside an exceptional network of builders, we'd love to connect.

We're always looking for builders who want real ownership and real impact.

This role is not at Stackpoint itself, but within one of the early-stage companies we launch each year. Stackpoint is a venture studio: we build and fund 3–4 new companies annually, and for each company we hire a Founding Head of Product a few months post-launch.

Because of this model, we're continuously meeting exceptional product leaders who may be a fit for current or upcoming roles. If this resonates, we'd love to connect—even if the timing isn't perfect yet. Getting to know you early helps us put the right opportunities in front of you when they open.

The Role

This is a founding-level product role at an early-stage company with real traction potential, real customers, and real stakes.

It is not a traditional PM role with fixed boundaries. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the CEO, engineers, and design partners to shape what gets built, why it matters, and how the company wins.

We're drawn to product leaders who:

• Obsess over customers

• Think in systems and first principles

• Move fast without losing judgment

• Raise the bar for clarity, focus, and execution

Especially in messy, ambiguous, 0→1 environments.

What You'll Drive1. Product Vision & Strategy

• Own a cohesive long-term product vision and translate it into a sharp, focused near-term roadmap.

• Synthesize inputs from customers, the CEO, design partners, and market signals into clear strategic bets.

• Decide explicitly what not to build—protecting focus and eliminating noise.

• Adapt quickly as new information, constraints, or complexity emerge.

2. Customer Discovery & Reality Loops

• Lead high-leverage customer discovery that surfaces real pain and forces prioritization.

• Prototype early and often—interactive prototypes, lightweight agent flows, scrappy internal demos.

• Pressure-test value using real customer data and real workflows, not abstractions.

• Translate messy customer input into crisp problem statements and product bets.

• Maintain tight feedback loops on every release to learn, adjust, and re-prioritize.

3. Execution, Prioritization & Engineering Partnership

• Work directly with engineers to understand constraints, unblock issues, challenge assumptions, and refine approaches.

• Drive a fast, learning-oriented execution rhythm (clear sprint goals, demos, iteration).

• Apply ruthless prioritization: weigh impact vs. complexity vs. risk, and cut scope aggressively when needed.

4. Team Energy, Culture & Communication

• Be a source of clarity and momentum—the team always knows what matters next and why.

• Raise the emotional energy of the team; people leave meetings more motivated, not drained.

• Communicate decisions and tradeoffs with candor and transparency.

• Model founder-level ownership: when something breaks, you own the solution.

5. Company Building Beyond Product

• Contribute to hiring across product, engineering, design, and GTM.

• Help craft investor narratives, pitch materials, and go-to-market enablement.

• Jump into high-leverage founder work—from customer calls to strategy to ops—wherever your spike accelerates the company.

What You BringCompany Builder DNA

• Experience as a founder, early product leader, or de facto co-founder.

• Takes initiative unprompted; brings ideas, not just execution.

• Comfortable operating with incomplete information and high ownership.

AI-Native Operator

• Heavy personal user of AI tools; instinctively applies AI to accelerate your own work and the team's.

• Experience shipping AI-powered features where trust, reliability, and UX matter.

• Strong intuition for model limitations, fallback paths, and data/latency tradeoffs.

0→1 Product Leadership

• Proven ability to define vision, sequence work, and drive ruthless prioritization.

• Comfortable killing ideas, changing approaches, and cutting scope when reality demands it.

• Can break complex problems into clear, shippable steps for a small team.

Deep Engineering Partnership

• Goes deep enough technically to make better product decisions.

• Understands architecture, data flows, and tradeoffs well enough to challenge assumptions.

• Earns engineers' trust by protecting focus and respecting constraints.

Leadership & Communication

• Clear, compelling communicator who aligns teams around strategy and milestones.

• High emotional intelligence; builds trust quickly with customers and teammates.

• Leaves people more energized after meeting with you.

An Ecosystem of Exceptional Builders

Joining a Stackpoint portfolio company also means joining a tight-knit ecosystem of founders, product leaders, and operators building alongside you.

To date, we've launched 10 companies and now launch 4 new companies each year. Founding Heads of Product across our portfolio are peers—not silos. We actively foster collaboration through:

• Regular cross-portfolio product and founder sessions

• Shared learning on AI, GTM, hiring, and scaling challenges

• Direct access to other builders solving similar 0→1 problems in parallel

This is a rare chance to:

• Build your company with full ownership

• While learning alongside other exceptional product leaders

• And benefiting from pattern recognition across multiple early-stage startups

You're not just taking a role—you're joining a high-trust network of builders who raise each other's bar.

Why Stackpoint Portfolio Companies

• Founder-level scope with real ownership and influence

• Deep studio support: capital, design partners, engineering leverage, and experienced operators

• An ecosystem of 10+ launched companies, with 4 new startups every year

• Active cross-portfolio collaboration with other founders and Heads of Product

• A culture that values judgment, speed, and substance over process theater

Interested?

If this role excites you—even if the timing isn't perfect—we'd love to connect. We're always building relationships with exceptional product leaders and will reach out as founding roles open across the Stackpoint portfolio.