About Pyne and the Role
We at Pyne (2.6mio preseed by tier 1 VCs Lightspeed SquareOne Sequoia) make navigating complex software effortless. Imagine having the best product expert guiding every stepthats our vision for SaaS platforms powered by AIdriven personalized demos. Weve found a product customers love and want you to help us get to the next level. As our CoFounder & CPTO youll:
- Own our product & tech strategy and manage a team of 6 AAA FTEs
- Build tomorrows version of humancomputer interaction using gen AI.
- Shape how customers engage with digital platforms and solve realworld problems with cuttingedge technology.
- Work alongside and help shape our worldcl team backed by toptier VCs .
Were looking for a handson SaaS innovator with:
- Experience leading (ideally building) a VCfunded startup.
- Deep knowledge of B2B SaaS AI applications and problemobsessed product building.
- The drive to build soing gamechanging.
If this is you please read on.
Tasks
As a cofounder you will act as an innovation partner to our customers while driving internal efficiency to build beloved fast and topquality products.
- Endtoend ownership of the product and tech organization including building out and carrying the product and tech vision and strategy.
- Work closely with customers to test gather feedback and iterate on new product angles and features ensuring they solve realworld problems. You are responsible (with the contribution of esp. Roman) that our roadmap is dictated by our prioritized customers problems not by our opinions.
- Drive innovation and identifying new ways to deliver value faster through cuttingedge technology balancing contextual needs the teams capabilities and longterm goals.
- Work (nearly uncomfortably) close to our usersobsess over customer problems and opportunities gathering and translating insights into innovative impactful solutions.
- Shape the companys strategic direction together with Roman and make sure we deliver results with speed and agility.
- Foster a culture of ownership integrity and relentless customer focus across the tech and product teams. You can find further information about our team and culture here: Join the Pyne team
- Act as a mentor to our talented team of engineers designers and product managers (6 direct reports) and play a key role in hiring and developing toptier talent as we scale.
- Own decisions around the evolution of our tech stack ensuring that it scales with our vision and remains optimized for future growth.
Metrics of Success:
Your success will be measured by revenue growth thats driven by customer happiness resulting from our product solving their most pressing problems and by us reaching a AAA Seed funding round in 2025.
Our current tech stack is
- Tech: React Typescript Tailwind Next.js PostgreSQL OpenAI
- Hosting: Render Supabase Cloudflare
- Workflow: GitHub Notion Figma Retool
Requirements
Youre a handson innovator with deep experience in B2B SaaS and a pion for using technology to solve customer problems.
- Entrepreneurial Grit: You have experience either founding or being a first decisionmaker in a startup (VCfunded preferred) understand what it takes to build a company thrive in highownership environments and are selfmotivated by delivering results. You cannot not found a company because your fingers keep itching to build soing useful and innovative.
- CustomerObsessed: Youre not here to build a companyyoure here to build products that solve real problemsfor customers. You prioritize customer outcomes over internal product goals and turn feedback into strategy and tangible product improvements.
- Deep SaaS Knowledge: You understand the complexities of building and scaling B2B SaaS products and the unique challenges that larger SaaS orgs face. With this knowledge youve developed a strong intuition of what works and what doesnt over the years.
- AI Application Expertise: You know how to apply AI to realworld business problems and leverage it to create intuitive product experiences.
- Technical Mastery: Youre a fullstack machine and can build prototypes fast yourself if needed. You are deeply familiar with the technical side of building products from architecture to infrastructure. You know how to optimize a tech stack for scalability and you understand the importance of clean architecture database management and efficient backend processes balancing shortterm needs and longterm investments.
- Team Leadership: Youve built and led tech and product teams before and know how to create a highperforming engaged team that shares a commitment to stellar customer experiences and entrepreneurship. Tech and product teams youve worked with before praised you for your drive mentorship integrity and ability to lead by example.
- Opinionated but kind and lowego: You have strong opinions but are graceful in your disagreement. You bring bold wellthoughtout opinions to the table but know that the best outcomes often come from healthy debates. Youre confident in your ideas but humble enough to disagree with grace always seeking the best solution for the team the product and the customers.
Benefits
A unique opportunity to join as a cofounder to a highperforming team with tier 1 investors and a compensation package that reflects your importance to our success
An exciting AI Product where youll be able to call the shots
Toptier network of investors and advisors (some of our angels include the CMO @ Zapier CLevel Looker Head of Product Canva and many more)
Hiring Process
This isnt just about filling a role. Its about bringing on a cofounder who will help define the future of Pyne. Due to this the process will be thorough and include interviews with external advisors and experts to ensure the best fit. Roman will provide further clarity during the process.
- Intro call with Roman CEO and Founder (3060 mins)
- Multiple tech deepdives (35)
- Coding challenge (48 hours) and presentation of it
- Meeting the team