Instrumental Inc

Product Lead — Next-Gen Product

Palo Alto, USA

Sponsorship not specified$210k-$298kDetected 112 days ago

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About the role

You know the difference between what an engineer specifies and what actually happens on the line.
You've chased major production line problems, investigated bottlenecks, and sat in yield review meetings.
That experience is exactly what this role is built around.

A strong partner to technical co-owners - you co-design solutions with your tech lead, not hand off specs.
Wired for fast iteration - you ship small, validate quickly, and course-correct.
Own your pod's outcomes while collaborating with your tech lead - together you design solutions, make tradeoff decisions, sequence work, and ship.
Be forward-deployed with your design partner customer - spend real time in their environment, build custom solutions that solve their specific problems, then work to scale what works into repeatable product.
Ship small iterations that deliver value consistently - this is how we validate product direction.
You have opinions about what to build and can hold your own in technical conversations, even if you're not writing the code.

Demonstrated ability to work in a tight partnership with engineering - co-designing solutions, not just writing requirements.
Track record of shipping fast in ambiguous environments with minimal process overhead.
We actively work to promote an inclusive environment, valuing passion and the ability to learn.

This is your core skill.
AI-forward - using AI tools daily for research, analysis, prototyping, and coordination.

You'll own translating product vision (set with the CPO) into a concrete plan, then drive execution with a small engineering pod.

AI compute demand is pushing manufacturing to a scale and speed the industry has never seen.
Our customers need lines running faster and cleaner than ever - and Instrumental has become a critical tool to make that happen.
We're now expanding beyond visual inspection into the full manufacturing data stack, building next-gen agentic capabilities that change how factories operate.
Instrumental is hiring a Product Lead to be embedded with our most strategic customers - companies running high-complexity, high-volume electronics assembly - and turn deep manufacturing intuition into shipped product.
Your north star is customer outcomes and iteration speed - moving from prototype to GA as quickly as the product and customers allow.
You don't just visit customers; you live in their world enough to know when a solution actually changes their workflow versus when they're being polite.
We're looking for someone who is: A problem decomposer - you take a big, ambiguous problem from the exec team or a customer and break it into smaller pieces that a small team can ship in days, not months.

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