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Founding Product Lead
Product
Full-time
San Francisco or New York (US remote considered)
Kai is a game that pays real money. Your job: make it one people come back to.
About the role
Kaius is two products that have to work as one. Players open Kai because it's fun and it pays. Partners, the AI teams who buy from us, come for high-quality data they can't get anywhere else. Right now our founders and engineers cover product in between everything else. You'll be the first person who owns it full time, working side by side with the Founders, and you'll build the product team that keeps it going.
What you'll do
Own product strategy and the roadmap across Kai and the Kaius platform
Own engagement first: first payout, the first week, the first month, and the loops that bring Players back. Sign-ups are just the loading screen
Turn what Partners need collected into quests Players actually want to do
Ship every week with engineering and design. You'll write the spec, and ship the prototypes
Go deep on data, then talk to Players to find out why the numbers moved
Set a high quality bar for Kai. Ship fast without shipping sloppy
Talk to Players in lots of countries, and to ML researchers at the labs we sell to. Often in the same week
Help hire our first PMs and set how product works here at Kaius
What we're looking for
You've owned a consumer product end to end through real 0-to-1 ambiguity, and you moved retention, not just installs
You've built growth loops (referrals, streaks, live ops) and have the numbers to show for it
You love games, ideally mobile. You can explain why one loop works and another one doesn't, and you obsess over in-game systems and economies
Technical enough to go deep with engineers and prototype on your own, with AI of course
You've led people, and you're happy to be hands-on again
Curious about people whose lives look nothing like yours
You write simply. We're remote-friendly, and concise writing is how we think clearly
Nice to have
Top mobile game studios
Earning or gig apps, payouts across countries
International and multilingual products
Data capture for AI or robotics
Founding or early-startup experience
Probably not for you if
You need a big team and a full roadmap process before you can move. Or you've managed roadmaps for a while but haven't shipped anything with your own hands lately. And if your growth playbook starts with buying installs, we're not there yet. Sorry.
Why now
Hard, valuable, fun. In that order. Making data collection fun enough that people choose it is a problem nobody has solved yet, and the platform side is already paid and growing. This should be the hardest thing you've done in your career.
How we hire
No AI screens, coding challenges, design take-homes etc. An initial call or coffee, then a couple of hours working with us instead.
