Product Lead

Job Title: Product Lead

Location: Los Angeles

Reporting to: Co-Founder

About 8Fleet

8Fleet is building the foundational physical world infrastructure layer for autonomous and non-autonomous ridesharing — the scaffolding that makes mass AV adoption commercially viable. We are the fastest growing fleet operator in the world.

About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned and versatile person to run Product. This is a rare, zero-to-one hire. You will sit at the intersection of product execution and growth strategy — embedded with engineering to ship product that moves the needle, and accountable for the metrics that prove it. This role demands someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can take ambiguous requirements and turn them into robust, high-quality, and scalable solutions, and can mentor peers in best practices. You will have an outsized influence on how this company scales.

What You'll Do

• PRODUCT EXECUTION

• Own PRDs end-to-end — from problem definition through engineering delivery and post-launch measurement

• Be the connective tissue between business goals and technical implementation; translate operator insights and partner requirements into crisp specs

• Run sprint planning, manage the product backlog, and ruthlessly prioritize against growth impact

• Define and instrument success metrics for every feature shipped; hold yourself and the team accountable to outcomes, not output

• Use AI-native tools (Cursor, Claude, Replit, etc.) as a force-multiplier — prototype ideas yourself, generate test data, automate QA loops, and reduce back-and-forth with Eng

• B2B PARTNERSHIPS & AV ECOSYSTEM

• Build and deepen the product relationships with rideshare partners (Uber, Lyft, etc) and inbound AV OEM/operator partners

• Identify integration opportunities, joint GTM motions, and exclusive data-sharing arrangements that create durable competitive moat

• Own the partner product roadmap — surface their needs, translate them into internal priorities, and close the feedback loop

• DRIVER & OPERATOR ACQUISITION AND RETENTION

• Design and own the funnel from driver awareness to active fleet contributor — including onboarding, activation, and long-term retention loops

• Develop and ship driver-facing product features that improve quality scores, earnings reliability, and satisfaction

• Leverage data to identify drop-off points, experiment aggressively, and ship fast

• PLATFORM GROWTH LOOPS & DATA

• Build and own the growth model: identify the compounding loops in fleet scale, utilization, and partner economics that make 8Fleet's network effects defensible

• Develop a proprietary data strategy — define what to capture, how to structure it, and how to turn it into fleet intelligence that competitors cannot replicate

• Partner with engineering to ship internal tools that give operators real-time visibility and dynamic decision-making capability

• Design and run structured growth experiments; synthesize learnings into a compounding playbook

What You'll Bring to the Table

• 5-9 years in product management or growth product, ideally at a hypergrowth company (mobility, logistics, marketplace, or gig economy strongly preferred)

• Demonstrably AI-native: you use LLMs, automation, and AI tooling daily as productivity infrastructure — not as a novelty

• Strong technical fluency; comfortable reading code, writing SQL, and in a room with senior engineers without losing credibility

• Experience shipping B2B or platform product in addition to consumer-facing surfaces

• Data-driven to your core — you build models before you make recommendations, and you know the difference between a metric and a KPI

• Exceptional written clarity; your PRDs and strategy memos are the kind people forward

Bonus Points For

• Background at Uber, Lyft, Via, Waymo, Cruise, or a fleet management software company

• Experience in a founder-adjacent or "first product hire" role at an early-stage company

• Hands-on with growth infrastructure: experimentation frameworks, attribution modeling, lifecycle tooling

• Prior experience managing or deeply collaborating on partner integrations (API-level or business-level)

• How We Work:

• We are not building a bureaucracy. We are building infrastructure for a trillion-dollar market shift, and we are doing it with a small, exceptional team. That means:

• High autonomy, high accountability — you own outcomes, not just tasks

• AI tools are table stakes, not a differentiator; we expect everyone to operate at 10x the output of a traditional team

• Decisions get made fast. We debate once, align, and ship. You will be expected to do the same

• You will have direct access to founders and be in the room for the strategic decisions that shape the company

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience

• Meaningful equity — this is an early, high-impact hire and will be reflected in your option grant

• Performance-based incentives tied to company growth milestones

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Flexible work environment with strong bias toward in-person for key planning and partner work