Founding Product Manager
GPTZero
If you want to shape a product from the ground up, this is the move. GPTZero is building the leading AI detection platform used by millions—educators, students, journalists, marketers, writers. As a founding PM, you'll own the product strategy and direction for a company working on something that matters: restoring trust and transparency as AI reshapes how we create and consume content.
You'll work with a team that has shipped at scale—people from Meta, Perplexity, AWS, Affirm, and research labs like Princeton and Caltech. Your job is to make product calls that stick, define what we build next, and own how our platform serves the people who depend on it. This isn't a PM role where you're executing someone else's vision. You're building the category.
You should have strong product judgment—the ability to think through user problems, weigh tradeoffs, and push back when needed. You don't need 10 years of experience. You need to think clearly and move fast. Background in tech, design, engineering, or policy all give you useful angles here.
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About this role
GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity. Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Meta, Perplexity, AWS, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, and Vector Institute. GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity. Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Meta, Perplexity, AWS, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, and Vector Institute. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Strong product judgment with 3-5 years of experience owning B2C/prosumer products end to end - Comfort working without established PM processes and building structure that meaningfully improves outcomes. You will be GPTZero’s first product manager. - Deep understanding of AI-powered products, including model limitations, tradeoffs, and user trust implications - Strong collaboration skills with designers, engineers, and researchers to drive alignment and execution. - High ownership mindset with a bias toward action, learning, and iteration Bonus - Experience as an early or first PM at a startup - Experience working closely with ML or research teams WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own discovery by identifying and validating user problems through research, data analysis, and direct user engagement - Define product requirements and success metrics in close partnership with design and engineering teams - Make product decisions in areas with uncertainty, incomplete data, and evolving model behavior - Drive execution from concept to launch and iterate based on user feedback WHO YOU’LL BE JOINING We’re a small team. We value ownership, transparency, and listening to each other. Everyone works and interacts with everyone. Everyone is free to attend meetings across product functions, whether it's diving into designs or dropping into our ML learning groups. Here are some people you’ll work closely with. You’ll be meeting everyone. - Edward (CEO), data-powered investigative journalism at BBC and Bellingcat, threat intelligence at Microsoft, ML researcher at Princeton - Alex (CTO), Ph.D. dropout, R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, 2021 and 2019 Best ML Hack at Stanford - Olivia Kusio (UI/UX designer). She’s also an artist, with her work previously shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and graduated from Princeton. - Ei Thazin (UI/UX designer) with experience at several high-growth B2C startups. She graduated from Stanford and instructed at the renown [d.school http://d.school] at Stanford. - Hriday (Growth Lead), expert on taking products viral. Founded Wildfire, raised $3M, scaled it to 1M users and exited to Opendoor. Most recently, he worked on growth at Perplexity. - Jacob (Full Stack), top of class at Waterloo, ex-Affirm, Lime, Level and Zynga - Midhun Dandamudi (Full Stack), former India lead at Angelist, former co-founder of Nuance, Ex-Intuit/Bloomberg At GPTZero, our recruiting team is involved in every step of the hiring process. We use AI-based tools (such as Endorsed.ai and Juicebox.ai) to help us to accelerate candidates at the resume review stage by marking when candidates met certain key criteria. These tools are never the final say in a hiring decision - humans are.