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zaimler
zaimler

Head of Product

San Mateo, California, U.S.
Full-Time
On-site

TLDR

Own the platform end-to-end as the first product hire, defining 'knowledge as an API' and shaping the SDK to drive real adoption.

About zaimler

AI agents can't reason over data they don't understand. Enterprise data today is fragmented across dozens of systems with no shared context, meaning, or structure, and that's why most enterprise AI is failing. The shift from copilots to autonomous agents is creating an entirely new infrastructure layer, and we're building it.

zaimler is the context infrastructure for the agentic era: a platform that automatically discovers domain knowledge, maps relationships, and gives AI agents the semantic understanding to operate with precision at scale. Imagine knowledge graphs that support real-time inference, built for systems that need to reason, not just retrieve.

zaimler was founded by Biswajit Das (ex-VP Engineering, Truera), a Data Infra veteran and former Chief Architect at Visa, and Sofus Macskassy (ex-Director of Engineering, LinkedIn), who built one of the largest knowledge graphs in production in the industry at LinkedIn. We're growing and deploying with major enterprises across insurance, travel, and technology. If you want to build infrastructure that the next decade of enterprise AI runs on, we'd love to talk.

The Role

You'll be zaimler's first product hire. The platform exists, enterprise customers are live, and now we need someone to own the path from early traction to real adoption. That means defining what "knowledge as an API" looks like as a product, shaping the SDK and developer experience, and making the platform something customers pull into their stack rather than something we push.

This is a deeply technical, cross-functional role. You'll work directly with the founders, engineering, design, and GTM to drive product direction, and you'll spend real time with enterprise customers and ISV partners in the data and ML ecosystem to ground every decision in what actually matters.

What You'll Do

  • Own the product end to end: vision, strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, and iteration for zaimler's platform capabilities
  • Define and ship the core product surfaces: platform APIs, SDKs, developer experience, and the product interfaces that make zaimler's infrastructure accessible and self-serve
  • Partner directly with enterprise customers and ISV partners to understand workflows, validate solutions, and prioritize the highest-impact work
  • Drive adoption by working with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship features that move measurable customer outcomes
  • Establish product metrics and feedback loops that connect what you're shipping to the value customers are getting
  • Collaborate closely with the founders to align product initiatives with business goals, company narrative, and competitive positioning

    • Must-haves

  • 10+ years in product, including at cloud, data platform, developer platform, or ML infrastructure companies
  • At least one product you owned from 0 to 1 through real external adoption, not just optimization of an existing surface
  • You've shipped a developer-facing, API- or SDK-first product that external engineering teams actually adopted. You treat developer experience as a product discipline, not a docs afterthought
  • Deep fluency in how enterprise data and ML teams actually work: integration patterns, the buying and adoption path, and the gap between a demo and production
  • Comfortable operating across the full range from engineers to executives and CIOs, able to hold your own in technical conversations even without an engineering background
  • Track record shipping cross-functional products with engineering and design, and comfort being the external product voice with design partners and ISVs

    • Nice-to-haves

  • CS or engineering background, or equivalent technical depth
  • Experience working with large enterprise customers and ISV partners, particularly in data or ML ecosystems
  • Background in knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, or AI infrastructure
  • 0 to 1 alongside founders at an early-stage startup

    • Working style

  • You'd rather talk to a customer than write a PRD, and you use what you learn to make the PRD better
  • You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and iterating fast
  • You think about adoption as a product problem, not a marketing problem

    • Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary benchmarked to the San Mateo / Bay Area market
  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • On-site in San Mateo, CA
  • Commuter benefits

    • We value builders over résumés. If this role excites you but you don't check every box, we still want to hear from you. zaimler is an equal opportunity employer.

    Benefits

    Equity Compensation

    Meaningful early-stage equity

    Health Insurance

    Health, dental, and vision insurance

    Competitive salary

    Competitive salary benchmarked to the San Mateo / Bay Area market

    Paid Time Off

    Flexible PTO

    Remote-Friendly

    On-site in San Mateo, CA

    zaimler
    zaimler

    zaimler builds the context infrastructure for the agentic era, delivering a platform that automatically discovers domain knowledge and maps relationships to give AI agents semantic understanding. Our solution transforms fragmented enterprise data into cohesive knowledge graphs, enabling real-time inference and reasoning at scale, thereby paving the way for the next generation of autonomous AI applications in diverse sectors like insurance, travel, and technology.

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