Founding Forward Deployed Product Manager

Experience: 5 years

Location: In-Office - San-Francisco (relocation bonus available)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $150k - $250k

About Klarity

Klarity (YC S18) uses GenAI to office tedious back-office work. Our customers include companies like Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, DoorDash, and Zoom. In 2024 we launched our second product, Klarity Architect; an AI product that helps users create detailed process documents in minutes. Within months of release, we were blown away by the level of demans. The product is flexible and we’re seeing traction with a number of use cases:

• Finance & accounting teams creating Standard Operations Procedures
• Compliance teams running analysis for SOX compliance
• Consultants driving a major system implementation
  
  

We raised a $70m Series B in June 2024. We are looking to add a brilliant, entrepreneurial Founding Forward Deployed Product Manager to the Architect team!

You Will Enjoy This Role If

• You love being a customer-facing. You can quickly make sense complex enterprise problems and find elegant solutions to them.
• You tinker: you embrace an AI-first mindset and spend much of your free-time trying different AI tools.
• Growth mindset: You will seek out uncomfortable experiences in service of your own growth.
• You’re not indexing on work-life balance; You prefer an environment of like minded, ultra-committed, live-and-breath AI people.
• You’re seeking a culture of breakneck iteration and constant change. We shipped this demo < 12 hours after the GPT-4 launch :)
• You thrive in finding creative solutions to ambiguous problem statements, rather than wanting to “stay in your lane”.
• You enjoy close collaboration, care about people and want to build strong bonding with your teammates.
  
  
The Role

As a Founding Forward Deployed Product Manager of the Klarity Architect, you will play a pivotal role in defining and scaling Klarity’s newest product, Architect. This role requires a sharp, technical, and customer-focused individual who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Expertise:
• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for Klarity’s Architect product, guiding enterprise customers through complex onboarding and adoption processes.
• Build a deep understanding of customer workflows and business requirements, translating them into tailored product solutions.
• Lead compelling product demonstrations for senior-level executives.
• Prompt Engineering and AI Flow Design
• You will need to singlehandedly configure every layer of the architect stack. This will include, designing AI templates, prompt engineering, AI Operations,
• This will require constant creativity, agility and speed.
• Product & Workflow Design:
• Engineer templates, build flow diagrams, and visualize enterprise workflows to solve customer problems.
• Develop high-quality artifacts such as process flows, data models, and system designs.
• Collaborate with customers to define use cases and design customized solutions within the Klarity platform.
• Product Design and Building:
• Based on customer needs you identify, partner closely with Engineering teams make product enhancements.
• Serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring product features meet enterprise needs.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years in a customer-facing, solution-oriented role (e.g., consulting at Bain/BCG/McKinsey, Solutions Architecture or similar).
• 2 Experience in Product Management or a closely related field that required “Product Thinking”
• Proven experience designing and deploying enterprise workflows—creating detailed process flows, technical architectures, and end-to-end solution documentation.
• Strong technical acumen with the ability to translate customer needs into AI-driven product configurations and closely collaborate with engineering teams on product enhancements.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including experience working with VP/C-level executives at large enterprises.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI-driven technologies, prompt engineering, or automation tools—demonstrating a passion for “tinkering” and rapid iteration.
• Track record thriving in fast-paced, high-growth environments, driving complex customer onboarding/adoption, and delivering tangible outcomes under ambiguity.
• Entrepreneurial mindset—comfortable taking on new challenges, wearing multiple hats, and pushing the boundaries of product capabilities.
  
  

Benefits

• Equity in addition to cash compensation
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401k
• $100 Monthly Wellness budget
• Annual Learning budget
• SF/Bay-Area Relocation bonus (where applicable)
  
  

Join Klarity and be part of a team that is pushing the boundaries of AI and transforming how companies handle unstructured documents.

Klarity is an equal opportunity employer. Klarity provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.