Principal Product Manager

Job Title

Principal/Senior Product Manager – AI Agents

Job Level

We will determine the job level (Principal vs Sr) based on interview performance and experience.

Location

Remote - United States

About BrightHire

BrightHire is on a mission to give every person the hiring experience they deserve.

As a Series B company and the leader in Voice AI for recruiting, we partner with hundreds of the world’s most innovative companies—including Canva, Hubspot, Anthropic, Vercel, Zapier and Ramp up to the F100 —to help them build exceptional teams.

We’ve helped our clients conduct millions of smarter interviews and raise talent density; we're growing very fast, and yet we’re just scratching the surface.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the development of BrightHire’s most ambitious AI initiatives and our new generation of AI Agents.

• Drive high-impact product areas from 0→1 and 1→n, including a major greenfield project with exponential growth potential. 
• Partner with Engineering, Design, and cross-functional teams to shape, build, ship, and sell features that drive customer value, retention, and revenue.
• Collaborate across the full product lifecycle—from customer discovery and strategy to execution and go-to-market. 
• Help lead the development of our next-gen agent framework—laying the groundwork for a new era of intelligent, AI-powered experiences across the BrightHire platform.

You’ll work on AI-powered features that our customers use every day like:

• Automatic interview coaching that provides tailored feedback and guidance based on an interviewer's recent interviews, with customizable content.
• An AI Candidate skills matrix that displays structured summaries mapped to key skills aligned with the job description.
• An AI assistant that allows users to instantly query any detail about a candidate or interview using natural language.
• Customizable interview summaries that enable customers to create fully personalized AI-generated summaries using their own structure and criteria.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the roadmap for AI-powered hiring workflows—including intelligent agents that touch every part of the hiring process.
• Lead cross-functional execution from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Partner with Engineering to ship high-quality AI features, including prompt design, evaluation workflows, and LLM output quality assurance.
• Drive adoption of AI features that improve hiring speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness.
• Work directly with customers to gather feedback and validate solutions.
• Monitor performance of launched features and use insights to refine product direction.
• Stay ahead of the curve on AI trends and identify where BrightHire should invest next.
• Collaborate closely with the VP of Product and company founders.
  
  

What You Bring

• Experience launching generative AI applications or agentic systems from the ground up.
• Strong technical collaboration skills, especially around prompt engineering, output evaluation, and LLM quality assurance.
• Deep interest in and knowledge of the evolving AI/ML ecosystem.
• 5+ years of product management experience at B2B SaaS companies.
• A proven track record of shipping high-impact products and scaling scope over time.
• Analytical and data-driven decision making, with the ability to balance speed and rigor.
• Experience in startup environments and comfort with ambiguity.
• (Bonus) Domain expertise in HR tech, recruiting, or talent systems.

Why You Should Work at BrightHire! 

You will become a part of an amazing culture with supportive leadership and smart teammates that truly care about #investingineachother

We’re very collaborative, we’re always brainstorming ideas about product, strategy, and how to win together. 

• We use our product daily in our own hiring, which is rewarding and gives us product empathy
• We try to make sure everyone stays connected to users and clients, joining sales and client meetings, talking to end users, etc.
• Everyone is self-motivated, autonomous, and seeks ways we can continuously improve as a company. If you have an idea you’ll here, the default is to action. 
• We’re generous, self-deprecating, look for reasons to laugh, and enjoy sharing our ideas for band names, posting photos from our walks, and reminiscing about previous travel

 Compensation and Benefits:

• $160,000 to $240,000 cash + meaningful equity (depending on leveling + interview performance)
• Fully paid health, dental and vision coverage
• Generous budget for your ideal work environment
• Unlimited PTO, with a minimum # of the days everyone must take :)
• Annual learning stipend for courses, conferences, books, etc.
• Monthly snack pantry delivered to your door

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Our company does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.