Waystation AI, Redwood City, CA
Waystation AI | Redwood City, CA (5 days in office) | Full-time
The why-what-when chain. Every project should tie to a customer or business outcome, have a written plan, a DRI, and milestones with dates. Real dates. We want you to help the team make appropriate timing estimates.
Prioritization and the word "no." Our customers are vocal and our engineers are helpful, which means customer requests can eat the roadmap one "it's just an hour" at a time. You own the framework that decides what gets built, protects the product lanes, and keeps a run-the-business lane from swallowing everything.
Launch as a discipline. Product sign-off before deploy. Seeded demo environments the CEO can sell from with total confidence. Release notes, customer comms, and sales enablement for every launch. Something customer-visible ships every week.
One source of truth. We try to use Linear and should do a better job of using it consistently. You'll cut the AI-generated ticket noise, enforce triage, and make sure any engineer can look at the board and know what matters and why.
Discovery and the customer voice. You'll be in prospect and customer calls frequently, translating what buyers, QA leads, and R&D teams actually need into specs engineers can build against without guessing.
The hard conversations. You are the accountability layer between the CEO and the team. When something slips, you catch it in days, name it, and drive the fix.
We have strong engineers, real customers, and a working AI extraction pipeline that is genuinely hard to replicate. What we don't have is a dedicated product leader. Until now, product has been carried part-time by a small team already wearing multiple hats, and we've grown past the point where that works. An experienced interim CPO (7 years as CPO of an email-native SaaS company) has spent the last month installing the operating system: a six-lane roadmap, weekly launch cadence, milestone discipline. It's working. He's interim.
You will inherit that system, make it yours, and become the Head of Product. This is not a caretaker role. We've learned firsthand what happens when a foundational project runs without a clear plan, and we've started building the discipline to prevent it. Your job is to make that discipline permanent.
We move in days, not weeks. If this reads like the job you've been preparing for, tell us why: jobs@waystationai.com
Waystation is an AI-native platform that helps food, beverage, supplement, and pet food manufacturers ($50M to $500M revenue) manage supplier communications and procurement data. Email is the UI: we connect to the accounts teams already use, structure every quote, spec, COA, and PO automatically, and give procurement, QA, and R&D one organized system of record with zero behavior change.
We're seed-stage, venture-backed, with paying customers including national bakery, supplement, and better-for-you brands. Ten people today: five engineers, three BDRs, a founding designer, and a founder who has done this before (CEO, prior venture-backed company through Series B+).
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