- 8+ years of product experience, with at least 3 of those leading and shipping at high velocity in complex workflow domains. You've had 5 to 10 PMs report to you in a startup context (Series A to C), not a big-company exec background. - Built products in operationally heavy businesses where the workflow is the product. Workflow automation experience is essential; system-of-record experience strongly preferred. - AI-fluent practitioner: prototyping, generation, and AI-assisted coding are part of your default workflow. You use Cursor, V0, Claude, and similar tools daily as real productivity multipliers, and you're comfortable opening AI-assisted PRs to validate an idea or unblock the team rather than waiting for engineering to do it for you. - Player-coach in the deepest sense. You write specs, sit with attorneys to understand their workflows, prototype in V0 or Figma, and ship alongside your team daily. You don't manage from a slide deck. - Tactical leadership at scale: you map out the year and then make the quarter-by-quarter calls about what gets built, what gets cut, and how to balance immediate user papercuts against larger workstreams without losing the plot on either. - Obsessive about workflow depth. You don't ship a feature and move on. You sit with the workflow until you understand it end-to-end, then design the version that makes the problem go away for good. - Strong communicator who thrives in a fast-moving, high-candor, in-office environment.