Most full-time roles here started with a paid project. We operate as a high-performance studio, not a typical corporation, and we share the upside directly with our builders via real ownership. Two value streams: a salary that covers your life, and equity that builds your freedom.
We hire by watching people work, not by interviewing them. Most full-time roles here started with a paid project. The funnel mirrors what is described on /join/projects/#how-it-works so the two pages reinforce each other.
12-minute Hireflix video, async. Questions are calibrated to the project or role you applied for.
30-60 minutes with a senior team member, usually the CEO. Strategic alignment and mutual fit. No problem-solving exercise.
1-3 weeks as a 1099 contractor on a real project alongside the team. Day 1 onsite for setup, then remote. Paid at your rate.
Within 2-3 days of trial end. An offer, one extension on a different project, or a clean exit. No theater either way.
Your responses go directly to the hiring team.
We are not looking for polished presentations. We are looking for signal on who you are.
100% premium coverage for you and your family. Medical, dental, vision.
For the LA team. One less thing to think about during the workday.
That we actually expect you to use. Recharge is not optional - it's structural.
LA headquarters with full remote support. Work where you do your best thinking.
You are a first-principles thinker. You deconstruct problems to their mechanics before reaching for frameworks. You distrust "best practices" that lack underlying reasoning. You ask "why" before you ask "how."
You ship. You have a track record of delivering complex systems to production, not just prototypes. You measure your work in deployed code, not design docs. You know the difference between motion and progress.
You operate with extreme agency. You don't wait for permission. You don't need detailed instructions. Given a problem and constraints, you find the path and execute. You treat ambiguity as a feature, not a blocker.
You want to own something. Not "ownership mentality" from a culture deck. Real ownership. Legal ownership. A share of the economics with your name on the operating agreement. You want to build something that compounds.
Product.ai is building the verification layer for AI-era commerce. We are profitable, bootstrapped, and growing. Every partner we add changes the trajectory. If this is the kind of work you want to do and the kind of structure you want to do it in - we should talk.