Founding Product Manager, Ampersand
$161-280k
Offers Equity
User-facing integrations for SaaS products
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User-facing integrations for SaaS products
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$161-280k
Offers Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To usher in a future where data can flow freely between SaaS applications, where a new product "just works" with a company's existing SaaS stack.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, developer tools, infrastructure, or enterprise software
- You've worked directly alongside engineering teams to ship technical products
- Technical enough to read API docs, review implementation tradeoffs, and push back on decisions that affect the customer experience
- Strong customer discovery instincts; you find signal in conversations, not just dashboards
- Excellent written communication
- A track record of making prioritization calls and defending them with data and customer context
- Professional engineering experience is a strong plus
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Founding Product Manager to take over a product layer that's been founder-owned until now. You'll work alongside the CTO, a founding engineering team, and in close contact with customers to define what gets built, why, and when
- This role requires genuine technical fluency, strong customer instincts, and the ability to operate with minimal structure. If you thrive in cross-functional environments where decisions travel in writing and customer feedback shapes the roadmap, then this role is built for you
- Customer Feedback Loop — Gather requirements, prioritize work, unblock engineers, project-manage delivery, and close the loop with customers when things ship
- Connector Experience — Own the product experience for Ampersand connectors — an open-source project that drives the API-specific product features customers depend on
- Customer Support — Help manage customer inquiries when questions require product judgment or a deeper understanding of a customer's implementation
- Technical Depth — Dive into API documentation or code when needed to understand implementation tradeoffs and push back on decisions that affect the customer experience
- API Partnerships — Build partnerships with API providers that have developer ecosystem or partnership programs
- Quality & Coverage — Identify opportunities to improve connector quality, reliability, usability, and coverage across the platform
- Internal Automation — Use AI tools to build automations and workflows that make the team faster
Our take
Company systems of record are designed to be highly configurable to suit most business needs, but this flexibility comes at a price. When building a SaaS product, it can be difficult to connect to this vital data source, requiring a huge amount of developer time to make things line up. Even then, it can be difficult to scale or change anything without a lot of work.
In contrast to the plethora of companies that solve data connectivity issues with APIs, Ampersand's solution is to offer a platform that lets engineers directly add user-facing integrations to their apps. It also bucks the low- and no-code trend, believing that control, flexibility and granularity are more important to skilled engineers than the simplification offered by competitors.
Its approach has drawn interest from investors, who have invested a significant amount in a 2023 seed round led by Matrix Partners. This funding was used to round out Ampersand's founding team and to develop its platform with a view to monetisation in the near future. Ampersand's goal of replacing APIs as the connective layer between customer-facing SaaS apps and a company's system of record is ambitious, but it's off to a very strong start.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2023
$4.7m
SEED
Total funding: $4.7m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Lauren Long
(Co-Founder & CTO)Before co-founding Ampersand was a Software Engineer at Shortwave and a Technical Engineer for Google. Previously co-founded Boxit.
Ayan Barua
(Co-Founder & CEO)Was VP of Engineering at G2. Before that, was Co-founder & CTO of Siftery and Credii.
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