Real, paid, 1-3 week engagements with the Product.ai team. Each one is a problem we are working on right now - at the frontier of AI, design, engineering, growth, and the surfaces commerce is being rebuilt on. We publish them so the right people can find us.
Most of our best people came through projects, not interviews. So we made the project the front door.
You apply. We do a 12-minute video screen. If it looks like a fit, a chemistry call. Then a 1-3 week engagement on a real project, paid at your rate, working alongside the team.
Ship the project well and we offer a role. If we exit, you keep the work history and the pay. No "we will keep you in mind."
Pick a project marked open to Alpha Team. Same scope, same pay, same access - minus the role conversation. You ship, you go.
Curated by the team. The diamond marks projects we consider consequential - the ones that meaningfully shape a system or a surface, not just produce an artifact.
12-minute Hireflix video, async. Questions are calibrated to the project you applied for.
30-60 minutes with a senior team member, usually the CEO. No problem-solving exercise.
1099 contractor, paid at your rate. Day 1 onsite for setup. Then remote work alongside the team.
Within 2-3 days of trial end. Offer, one extension on a different project, or a clean exit.
Alpha Team members skip steps 1 and 2 and go straight to project, where the project is marked open to Alpha Team. The decision step still happens at the end - but it is about the work shipped, not a role offer.
Not warnings. Just the things that tend to surface in trial sessions, said plainly so neither of us is surprised.
Twelve minutes. We will know within a week whether to move forward. We are a team of about 25 today, growing slowly and intentionally - most of our best hires came through exactly this path.