Lead Product Manager, Goodnotes
AI Teams
+ Equity
Top-rated note-taking app
Posted today
Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the best medium for human and AI collaboration.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience (5+ years) leading high-impact AI or ML-powered products across the full lifecycle, from zero-to-one definition to global scale
- Deep fluency in generative AI, multimodal LLMs, retrieval systems, or agentic workflows, enough to partner meaningfully with research and engineering teams
- Exceptional product strategy ability: setting vision, making tradeoffs, selecting bets and aligning teams around a coherent long-term direction
- Strong analytical and business instincts, with experience shaping monetization, subscription strategy or platform economics
- Ability to drive structure across complex systems, bringing clarity, prioritization, and measurable goals to fast-moving teams
- Outstanding communication and influence skills, enabling you to work across research, design, engineering and executive teams
- Experience building AI-native consumer productivity or creativity products (preferred)
- Comfort with ambiguity, rapid experimentation, and highly technical problem spaces
What the job involves
- Goodnotes’ AI ambitions span multiple verticals: handwriting and document understanding, agentic creation tools, meeting intelligence, multimodal LLMs, on-device capabilities, and an evolving AI subscription business
- These efforts are currently driven by several teams, each operating at high velocity
- To scale to the next level, we need a single product leader who owns the cross-company AI strategy, ensuring coherence across teams, ruthless prioritization, and a clear translation of research advances into user-facing value
- In this role, you will be the connective tissue between the AI research organization, engineering teams, product verticals, and executives
- You will define the long-term AI vision, shape the roadmap, guide investment decisions, and ensure that AI at Goodnotes delivers differentiated, monetizable, and loved experiences, all while maintaining a high bar for quality, safety, and performance
- This is a high-leverage, global role with direct influence on Goodnotes’ strategic direction and revenue trajectory
- Own the product vision and roadmap for the entire AI organization, spanning multimodal understanding, generative agents, productivity workflows and AI-native experiences
- Translate research breakthroughs into shipping features by partnering with applied research, ML infra, engineering, design and leadership
- Drive the strategy for the AI subscriptions, defining how we grow trials, conversion, retention, and long-term ARR
- Define clear KPIs and success metrics across teams (Meeting Intelligence, Freeform Agent, Stylus AI, etc.) and ensure accountability to outcomes, not just output
- Prioritize ruthlessly across competing AI initiatives, balancing user value, revenue impact, feasibility, infra cost and strategic leverage
- Shepherd AI quality and safety, ensuring new capabilities ship with reliability, evaluation frameworks and responsible-AI guardrails
- Collaborate across the entire company, aligning AI strategy with product verticals, marketing, data, go-to-market and leadership
- Deeply understand how users adopt AI, using qualitative and quantitative insights to rethink how AI can augment human productivity
- Identify new opportunities for breakthrough AI-native features that fundamentally change how people take notes, learn and work
Application process
- An introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
- A role-specific call to discuss your background and skillset for this role more in detail, as well as do a live exercise
- A technical assessment with one of our Engineering Managers
- A call with your hiring manager
- A meet-the-team call with 2 or 3 Goodpeople you’d be working closely with at Goodnotes
- An AI literacy interview, designed to help us gauge your experience with AI tools and your approach to working with this technology
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Goodnotes is a digital note-taking tool for handwritten notes and (formerly) paper-based information. Thanks to its signature vector ink engine, the app delivers a precise and natural writing experience. It can read handwriting (even the worst handwriting) and allow users to search it, as well as convert it to text for easy sharing into other apps or even web pages. Goodnotes also supports importing, searching, and navigation through PDF, PowerPoint, Word, image files, and more.
The platform is available across iPhone, iPad and Mac. One of the leading note-taking solutions on the App Store (with over 14,000 positive reviews) it competes with apps like Notability and Paper by WeTransfer. Founded in Hong Kong, Goodnotes now operates across the UK and with a number of new features and acquisitions, its proving a powerhouse in digital productivity.
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Focus on employee wellbeing
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Funding (1 round)
Jun 2020
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $6m
Company benefits
- Stock options: Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
- Excellent annual leave package + public holidays
- Flexible working hours and location, we're remote friendly!
- Medical insurance for you and your family
- Continuous learning: A learning and development budget or training or courses to build your skills
- Be your best self: A monthly budget for personal growth including books, language/music lessons and online courses
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Monthly wellness budget: Covering gym membership, therapy, massage and much, much more
- Amazing office space in central London and Hong Kong. Your Travel and lunch are also on us!
- Home office set up: Everything you need to create a productive workspace at home. Chairs, desks, hardware, it's covered
- Sponsored working visa with a relocation package to either of our office locations
- Annual team off-site: Get to know your colleagues
- Professional coffee equipment and freshly roasted beans in our offices
Company values
- Dream big
- Build great things
- Operate as an owner
- Win like a sports team
- Learn and grow fast
- Share our passion
- Be user obsessed
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Steven Chan
(Founder & CEO)Goodnotes was created from Steven's frustration with taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. Since then, the company has grown to millions of happy users.
Paul Onnen
(Senior Vice President of Engineering)Paul loves building things that help make people's lives better and they are using this experience to help Goodnotes be successful as we continue to grow.
Minh Tran
(COO)Minh is a seasoned people and business leader who is obsessed with searching for the world’s best talent and building winning teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and passionate.
Rowena Chung
(Director of Product)Rowena leads product discovery and strategy across Goodnotes' product group. She is committed to understanding the users’ needs and enhancing their productivity and experience with the app.
People progressing
Bret joined Goodnotes in 2018 as a Senior Software Engineer. In 2023 he was promoted to a Principal Engineer.
Joined Goodnotes in 2021 as a Senior ML Engineer and is now a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a product team to build an incredible AI productivity experience impacting millions of users.
Cam joined Goodnotes as a Senior Brand Designer and 3 years later became the Global Brand Design Lead!
Rammy joined Goodnotes as a Senior QA Engineer in December 2019, transitioned to QA lead after 2.5 years and again to QA manager after 4 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Goodnotes
Vivien Ko (People Ops Manager)
- We are a team of c 270, from 39 different countries... and still growing
- We believe diverse teams create better outcomes for users, teams, and businesses
- Learn more about one of our Female Directors https://www.goodnotes.com/blog/rowena-product-manager
- We know there's still a lot more we need to do - and we want you to be part of helping us on our DE&I journey!
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