Founding Head of Product & Technology
We are hiring a Founding Head of Product & Technology to lead engineering, product, design, and AI development for a confidential early-stage SaaS platform built for a highly structured and regulated domain. The role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, strong product vision, and the ability to build complex systems from scratch while ensuring reliability, accuracy, and security.
Key Responsibilities
- Product and Workflow Ownership
- Lead the entire product lifecycle including research, requirement analysis, flow mapping, specifications, prototypes, and deployment.
- Translate complex, rule-based domain workflows into simple and structured digital user journeys.
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, interaction documents, and technical product specifications.
- Ensure consistency, accuracy, reliability, and audit-friendly behavior across the platform.
- Technical Architecture and Engineering Leadership
- Architect the full SaaS platform including frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
- Build scalable, modular, multi-tenant systems using modern API-first and microservices approaches.
- Lead development across React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and supporting backend frameworks.
- Design and manage cloud environments on GCP, Firebase, Azure, or equivalent platforms.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment flows, event-based systems, and role-based data structures.
- AI, NLP and Automation Systems
- Integrate AI components for tasks such as classification, extraction, summarization, reasoning support, and workflow optimization.
- Work with LLM orchestration, vector databases, embedding pipelines, OCR, document parsing, and automated model evaluation.
- Design model gateways, prompt systems, and logic layers for safe and controlled AI output.
- Security, Compliance and Reliability
- Implement secure architecture: encryption, access control, auditing mechanisms, activity logs, and data integrity systems.
- Ensure readiness for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and national data protection regulations.
- Create systems for monitoring, redundancy, error tracking, quota limits, and data protection.
- UX and Design Execution
- Design user journeys that support multi-role usage and complex workflows in a clean and structured manner.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive design system using Figma.
- Ensure the interface emphasizes clarity, accessibility, predictable interactions, and trust-oriented behavior.
- Team and Culture Building
- Recruit and mentor engineers, designers, AI specialists, and analysts.
- Set engineering guidelines, code review frameworks, sprint processes, and quality standards.
- Establish a culture of precision, responsibility, and iterative improvement.
- Product and Technology Strategy
- Define long-term product and technology roadmaps including architecture, AI systems, automation layers, and platform modules.
- Translate high-level strategic goals into actionable milestones.
- Collaborate directly with the founding team to align product direction with business and user needs.
What We’re Looking For
- Technical experience of 5 to 12+ years in full-stack engineering and product leadership, preferably in SaaS, workflow-heavy systems, or AI-driven applications.
- Strong expertise in React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and API-first development.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Firebase, or Azure.
- Experience designing Firestore, PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar database structures.
- Experience deploying AI features into production, including embeddings, vector search, LLM pipelines, and document parsers.
- Strong understanding of secure system design, encryption, access control, and compliance-aware architectures.
- Product and design skills, including UX thinking, structured workflow design, and proficiency with Figma.
- Ability to convert complicated domain logic into simplified, reliable digital flows.
- Experience with workflow engines, rule-based systems, or automation platforms.
- Leadership skills, including founder-level ownership, ability to operate in fast-moving early-stage environments, cross-functional communication, and the ability to build teams from the ground up.
Perks:-
- Equity and profit-sharing based on contribution.
- Opportunity to build a new-generation platform from architecture to user experience.
- Close collaboration with the founding team in shaping the core vision.