Founding Product Manager (Ex-Data Engineer)

Zingle AI Labs is an applied research lab developing data agents and reinforcement learning environments for data teams. The Founding Product Manager will be the first product hire, defining the roadmap for environments, sandboxes, compute, and verdict systems while translating research capabilities into trusted products and measuring outcomes in live deployments.

Responsibilities:

• Spend time with data leaders and the engineers running agents in production, and find exactly where agents still guess
• Own the roadmap across the environment, the sandbox, compute, and the verdict layer, and decide what we build next and why
• Turn research capabilities into products that data teams trust with real warehouses
• Write clear specs, ship with engineering, and measure outcomes in live deployments

Requirements:

• Have a strong technical background. This is non-negotiable
• Have 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, developer tools, or product
• Understand the modern data stack deeply: warehouses, dbt, Spark, orchestration
• Use AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, and have opinions about where they fail
• Can hold a room with a CDO and a whiteboard session with an engineer on the same day
• Write clearly and think in systems
• Exposure to evals, RL, or verifiable-reward setups
• Experience with warehouse migrations or compute optimization
• Early-stage startup experience
• Remote, US (NYC or Chicago preferred)