Product Manager (ex-founder or ex-product engineer)

Remote · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 6, 2026

At a glance

Product development used to mean manually writing code, running analysis, diagnosing bugs, and rolling out changes using dozens of tools.
PostHog makes products self-driving https://posthog.com/self-driving. It's the only platform that acts like a co-pilot for you (and your AI agents) to do it all – autonomously.
We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort https://posthog.com/handbook/story. We've since shipped more than a dozen products https://posthog.com/products, including:
- PostHog Desktop https://posthog.com/desktop, the only AI devtool that understands your product, not just your codebase.
- A built-in data warehouse https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse, so users can query product and customer data together using custom SQL insights.
- PostHog AI https://posthog.com/ai, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

PostHog is hiring a Product Manager (ex-founder or ex-product engineer) to work with a small engineering team with a heavy emphasis on analyzing data, talking to users, and owning the commercial aspects of products.
This role focuses heavily on discovery rather than delivery, avoiding backlog grooming, ticket writing, and project management while prioritizing data research, user interviews, and commercial strategy.

Run growth reviews for products that have product-market-fit by ensuring correct metrics, analyzing changes, and understanding user behavior and churn.
Dive into data research projects to answer challenging questions without obvious answers.
Organize user interviews.
Provide just-in-time product feedback for new and existing features following shipping and iterating principles.
Coach product engineers on how to do product.
Lead research into competitors and the tooling landscape to provide recommendations on pricing, feature parity, or spinning out adjacent products.
Determine how products are being used, what the competitive landscape is like, and how users are feeling about PostHog.

Have been a technical founder or product engineer in a startup, having written code before and wanting to focus on the product and commercial side.
Have strong product sense to identify a product’s biggest selling points and weaknesses in both user experience and commercial aspects.
Be familiar with business and product metrics such as activation, retention, and churn, and defining and tracking key product metrics.
Be able to write SQL or another query language to answer data questions.
Be very proactive and organized, able to figure out what needs to happen and keep multiple threads moving forward.
Collaborate well, default to transparency, share early, and seek feedback from the team and customers in an async-first world with strong communication skills.
Have hands-on experience using observability products and understand how engineers use them to investigate, debug, and diagnose issues in production.

Worked on or PM'd an observability product before.
Additional data modelling experience on top of writing queries.
Worked on a developer tool or AI product before.
Done a decent portion of interviewing users already and worked with designers or engineers on new user experiences.