Product Manager

tl;dr: Fresh off a $15M Series A led by Accel (total funding now $20M+), Agave is experiencing hockey-stick growth. We're hiring a hands-on, technical product leader to build new products on top of infrastructure that took us years to build and no one else has. You'll own the full arc from idea to shipped product to ARR, working across Product Analysts, Account Executives, and engineers to move fast, launch repeatedly, and grow revenue. Learn more about us here (link https://www.figma.com/slides/nlpdpvRj3iS2qbPXqkMQz0/Agave--Candidate-Pitch-Deck?node-id=5-610&t=jDDiUrnFNhn2TWMm-1).

You'll have a rare advantage most PMs never get: deep proprietary infrastructure already integrated with every major construction platform, and a built-in distribution channel of 500+ paying customers and a growing co-sell network with some of the largest names in the industry. What you build will get used, it will compound, and you'll do it more than once.

No construction experience needed, we'll teach you everything.

WHY JOIN US?

• Early-stage, yet de-risked: we are a rare combo of being early stage (high upside) but lower risk (5XX+ paying customers, $Xm+ recurring revenue, hockey-stick growth). You get the benefits of an early stage startup without the risk you’ll have at almost any other startup. You’ll have a ton of impact, work directly with our customers, and get to work on interesting technical challenges you won’t see at bigger companies. Although we’re early stage, we’ve eliminated key strategic risks you’ll face at other startups. Like an unproven product, lack of market validation, lack of revenue, co-founder disputes. We’re all young and hungry. Our team is fully in-person, tenacious, and committed - most of us moved to SF from far away (Canada, SoCal, Texas, Virginia) specifically to build Agave from the ground up.

• Team is technical, diverse, young: you'll work with a formidable team that's experienced and ambitious. Our cofounders have worked together for 10 years, first at a startup that Amazon acquired, then at Amazon, and now at Agave. You'll learn a ton while having outsized ownership. You’ll have a front-row seat to the good and bad of building a company from the ground up.

• Huge opportunity without direct competition: startups are incredibly hard, so you want to join one that has a unique advantage. You don’t want to spend years of your life on a company in a saturated market with tons of competition. We’re seizing an opportunity that’s massive (Construction is the world’s third-largest industry) but also overlooked by most people in startup land. As a result, we have a multi-year head start against potential competitors, increasing our odds of success significantly. We’re also backed by world-class investors (Accel, YC) and Construction insiders (Procore and Autodesk executives, founders of the largest construction tech companies like PlanGrid).

• A platform that compounds: After years of building and developing key partnerships in the industry, Agave has proprietary integrations with every major construction ERP and project management platform that would take any competitor years to replicate. That infrastructure is your foundation. Every product you build plugs into it, and into every product we've already launched. The platform compounds as the suite grows, which means your work doesn't just drive standalone ARR, it makes the whole product more valuable. And unlike most PMs who ship into a vacuum, you're shipping into an existing, growing customer base with co-sell channels into some of the largest companies in the construction industry.

• Momentum is accelerating: our AI products are the fastest-growing part of the business, with a third of new deals now including one. Channel partnerships are fueling that growth too: we signed 8 new ones in the last month alone.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Agave has spent years building deep, proprietary integrations with the major construction ERP and project management platforms — infrastructure no one else has. Your job is to take each from idea to MVP to production to $1M+ ARR as fast as possible, then do it again.

• Define what gets built. Some products will arrive partially specced; others will start as a blank page. Either way, you'll synthesize signals from customers, PAs, AEs, and the market to define what to build, why, and in what order.

• Lead cross-functional execution. You'll work daily with PAs, engineers, and AEs to move fast, from requirements and scoping through QA, launch, and customer rollout.

• Go deep on the customer. You'll work directly with construction companies to understand their workflows, uncover unmet needs, and shape products that solve real problems people will pay for.

• Set and drive the roadmap. Prioritize ruthlessly across a portfolio of products. Know what's worth building now versus later, and make the case to the team.

• Think in platforms, not features. Every product you ship should make the next one easier to sell and faster to build. You'll keep the compounding effect of our suite in mind in everything you design.

REQUIREMENTS

• Hands-on: you'll be a full-time builder, not a manager. You must love operating in the messy weeds of nuanced systems, understanding their complexity and simplifying it for our customers. You will focus on product execution and delivery, less on strategy and market research.

• Technical: no need to code, but you must have at least 1 year experience working closely with APIs, databases, SQL, Postman, and similar tools. The more, the better.

• 2+ years experience in software: at least 2 years of full-time experience working for a software company in a data analyst, product, or other technical role. We’re open to exceptional new grads with substantive internships. We want someone hungry and has lots of room to grow, who's ready to roll-up their sleeves and operate in the trenches.

• High ownership + conscientiousness: able to manage many threads at once without sacrificing