Vice President of Product, Axion Ray
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
AI observability & quality management
Open for applications
AI observability & quality management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower manufacturers to resolve the highest priority issues to create the best possible products for their customers.
Role
Who you are
- 10-15+ years of product management experience, including 5+ years reporting directly to a CEO in a top product leadership role
- Proven ability to proactively partner with cross-functional leaders to define, align, and communicate product strategy
- Demonstrated success building, mentoring, and retaining top-tier PM and Design talent; is a talent magnet
- Experience in high performance product organizations, coupled with experience from scale-ups to define "what good looks like" and sets high standards for execution
- Thrives in fast-paced, scaling environments - comfortable with ambiguity and is decisive in prioritization
- Comfortable leading hybrid teams; based in SF Bay Area (preferred) or NYC (for exceptional talent); 3-4 in-office days/week
- High level of excitement for applying AI to real-world problems or helping American manufacturing
- Has built and lead a PM/Design organization of 10+ (including design) and partnered closely with Engineering teams of 50+
- Proven experience scaling enterprise B2B SaaS businesses from ~$10M to ~$50M ARR+ within venture-backed, high-growth environment
- Experience implementing end-to-end product development processes—road-mapping, quarterly planning, sprint cadences, backlog management etc
- Successful delivery of product transformations from early, rough MVPs to polished, reliable, and automated platforms
- Participated in the transition from single product to multi-product platforms
- Ability to balance customer pull with long-term product vision without drifting into custom builds
- Experience with data-heavy or multi-product systems
- Curiosity and comfort with complex, real-world problem domains (manufacturing, operations, etc.)
- Fluency applying modern AI/LLM capabilities to real-world workflows and articulating an agentic-first product vision, or ability to learn new technologies like this and apply them
- Has built complex, enterprise-grade, products for non tech-native users, with ACV's in the 6/7 figures +
- You’re a builder and operator who thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability environments. You take pride in getting things done — thoughtfully, efficiently, and without drama. You’re energized by ambiguity, skilled at bringing clarity, and comfortable flexing between strategy and execution
- You value feedback — giving it, receiving it, and acting on it — and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden
- You’re low-ego but high-agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually. You move quickly, communicate directly, and make decisions grounded in impact and data
- You don’t need constant direction — you create momentum. You take ownership for outcomes, and you expect the same from those around you
What the job involves
- As VP of Product at Axion, you’ll work with the CEO and Executive leadership to refine the overall product strategy for a company that’s transforming how manufacturers evolve their products with AI
- You’ll own the roadmap, scale the product organization, and partner closely with engineering and go-to-market teams to translate deep customer pain points into scalable, high-impact solutions
- This is a hands-on leadership role to build a product team from scratch- ideal for a builder who thrives in high-growth, high-impact environments
- Lead Axion's product strategy, roadmap, and execution
- Build and mentor a world-class product team, establishing best-in-class processes for discovery, prioritization, and delivery
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, sales, and customer success to ensure customer value translates into scalable platform impact
- Define and track key metrics around defect detection accuracy, time-to-insight, and customer ROI to guide iteration and investment
- Partner with leadership to shape the company’s long-term vision—how AI can enable customer-centric product iteration
Our take
Engineering management is typically a slow and painstaking process, and quality control plays a major part in making it so. Axion Ray leverages data to help solve this problem, and to help engineering leaders make better decisions.
The company's focus on R&D acceleration and optimization has proven widely popular in the space, as it enables users to move from a reactive to proactive approach to quality. It counts some of the largest automotive and aerospace companies in the world among its partners, including Boeing and the US Air Force.
Axion's AI is also geared toward risk management and metadata mining, which is a key draw for enterprise-scale clients. Operating in an extremely competitive and high stakes industry, the company has great potential. It has already secured substantial investment which supports further innovation and development.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2024
$17.5m
SERIES A
Feb 2023
$7.5m
SEED
Total funding: $25m
Company benefits
- Employee stock option program
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (100% of employee premiums covered and 70% for dependents)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave (birthing parents)
- Daily lunch credit when you’re in the office (around $20/day)
- Relocation support
- 401(k) plan with optional supplemental life, disability, and more
- Commuter benefits
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Daniel First
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked in Advanced Analytics at QuantumBlack, and was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey.
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