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# Head of Product at Code Metal

- **Company:** Code Metal
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/code-metal/31a67d9e-8bc0-4e35-8cff-ea4c39e11ac0

## Job description

## ABOUT CODE METAL

Code Metal is redefining code translation for mission-critical industries, helping defense partners move more quickly and reliably from algorithm to silicon. Our platform accelerates deployment of DSP, RF, communications, and embedded signal processing algorithms onto heterogeneous compute targets, including GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and edge SoCs. We also support automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor partners deploying complex algorithms onto constrained hardware with speed and rigor.

Code Metal is hiring its first Head of Product to own the company's product strategy, organization, and operating model. The Head of Product will sit at the intersection of Engineering, customers, and go-to-market and answer a fundamental question for the company's next phase.

The Head of Product will own the product layer built on top of Code Metal's core technical capabilities, including the continued evolution of our platform and the development of new products and experiences that make those capabilities accessible to customers. The mandate is to translate powerful underlying technology into products that solve clear customer problems, are easy to understand and adopt, and create natural paths to broader platform usage.

This person will report directly the CEO and the company's technical leadership to determine what products should be built on top of Code Metal's foundational technology, for whom, and in what sequence, while partnering closely with Sales to refine packaging, positioning, and the path from initial customer entry point to broader adoption.

The successful candidate will have done this before: taken differentiated foundational technology and built compelling products on top of it, creating the product experience, packaging, customer adoption, and commercial motion required to bring that technology to market.

What This Person Will Own:

- Product Strategy & Vision: Define the product strategy for Code Metal's platform and establish a clear view of where the company will, and will not, invest.
- Core Product Platform: Own the product direction and evolution of our platform and creating a coherent experience and roadmap across Code Metal's technical capabilities.
- Zero-to-One Product Development: Work closely with Engineering to identify customer problems, develop new products and capabilities, validate them with customers, and take them from concept through market launch and adoption.
- Customer Discovery: Build a disciplined approach to understanding engineering-led customers and translating their requirements into durable product insights rather than one-off feature requests.
- Product Roadmap & Prioritization: Establish the mechanisms for making clear product and engineering tradeoffs across customer commitments, platform investments, technical debt, and long-term strategic opportunities.
- Packaging & Commercialization: Determine how Code Metal's capabilities are organized, positioned, and packaged into products that customers can understand and purchase.
- Go-to-Market Enablement: Partner tightly with Growth and Sales to create product narratives, use cases, demonstrations, competitive positioning, and technical enablement that make the platform easier to sell.
- Sales Partnership: Participate directly in strategic customer conversations, particularly during the company's current stage, helping Sales understand customer requirements and helping customers understand the product's technical and business value.
- Engineering Partnership: Serve as the primary product counterpart to Engineering and technical leadership, ensuring customer and market priorities are translated into clear product decisions without compromising technical integrity.
- Product Organization: Build a high leverage, technically credible, high-output Product organization.

What we're looking for:

- 10+ years of B2B technology sales experience, including 5+ years leading scaled Product organizations.
- A true builder who is comfortable starting with ambiguity, incomplete information, and an immature organizational structure.
- Highly technical product executive. Must understand complex technical systems well to challenge assumptions, ask incisive questions, and partner with Code Metal's engineering organization.
- Hands-on and comfortable operating without a large Product organization. This person should expect to personally conduct customer discovery, write product strategy, pressure-test requirements, support strategic deals, and drive prioritization.
- Has strong product taste and can distinguish between a customer request, a repeatable product need, and a strategically important platform investment.
- Commercially minded. Understands that great product leadership at Code Metal includes helping the company sell, package, and communicate its technology, not simply managing an engineering roadmap.
- Comfortable making hard prioritization decisions and saying no when customer requests or internal initiatives do not support the broader product strategy.
- Low ego and highly collaborative across Engineering, Growth, Sales, Solutions, and forward-deployed teams.
- Has personally taken a deeply technical product from ground zero to market, rather than primarily inheriting mature products, established roadmaps, or functioning product organizations.
- Has partnered closely with Sales to commercialize a product, including participating directly in customer conversations and learning what made the product sell, or fail to sell.
- Has strong experience working with deeply technical engineering organizations and can earn credibility with engineers, architects, and technical founders.
- Has translated emerging technical capabilities into products that can be repeatedly sold and deployed rather than remaining bespoke solutions.
- Has experience establishing product-market fit, not simply scaling after product-market fit was already established.
- Ideally has built products for developers, engineers, security teams, infrastructure teams, or other highly technical users.

## BENEFITS

- Pay depends on experience, but we strive to be at the upper end of the salary range
- Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
- 401k with 5% matching
- Paid Time Off (uncapped vacation, plus sick and public holidays)
- Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement
- Relocation assistance for qualifying employees

Wage Transparency - The salary range for this role is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as the final offer amount may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, individual proficiency, skills, experience, and location.

We are an equal opportunity employer. US Citizenship may be required for certain project assignments involving security clearance.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

## About Code Metal

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Code Metal provides an AI-powered platform for verifiable code translation, enabling mission-critical industries to safely move software to different hardware architectures and languages with formal verification.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software development tools; defense, automotive, aerospace, robotics, logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – engineering teams in safety-critical sectors (defense, automotive, aerospace, medical devices)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make AI trustworthy by safely delivering the last mile for mission critical industries" ([codemetal.ai](https://codemetal.ai/))

## Products & Services
- **Verifiable Code Translation Platform**: An AI-driven tool that automatically translates source code to a target architecture/language while generating a full test suite (functional and MCDC coverage) and formally verifying functional equivalence. Designed for safety-critical and compliance-heavy environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed directly; latest round implies a post-money valuation in the hundreds of millions (conflicting reports).
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: Conflicting data – $178.45M or $184.45M (see sources). Latest round was a $125M Series B in February 2026, led by **Salesforce Ventures**. ([cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/code-metal) and [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/548367-58))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: J2 Ventures, Shield Capital, Overmatch Ventures, Smith Point Capital, RTX Ventures, Salesforce Ventures (lead Series B), and 20+ others.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount of 63 (as of mid-2026), growing 182.8% YoY.
  - Active job postings: 57, up 714% YoY. 
  - Customers include a top‑5 global automotive OEM, a top aerospace company, and L3Harris.
  - Patents filed for code translation and program synthesis using LLMs.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Formal verification + AI**: Unlike typical AI code assistants, Code Metal guarantees functional equivalence through automated testing and compliance checks, making it suitable for systems where failure is not an option.
- **Chip portability**: Allows customers to avoid vendor lock-in by maintaining a single source-of-truth codebase deployable to any chip (ARM, RISC‑V, GPUs, etc.).
- **Track record in defense/aerospace**: Already deployed with L3Harris and major aerospace/automotive firms, providing a strong reference base.

## Strategic Focus
- **Go‑to‑market**: Deepening relationships with defense primes and automotive OEMs while expanding into robotics, telecommunications, and medical devices.
- **Product development**: Investing in compiler and AI tooling, modeling & simulation, formal methods, and GPU/accelerator support (evident from open positions).
- **Scaling team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, research, and go‑to‑market roles (Boston, San Francisco, remote).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & impact**: "Building a global team of exceptional builders" – focus on solving hard problems at the intersection of AI, compilers, and safety-critical systems.
- **Work policy**: Offers roles in Boston, San Francisco, and fully remote (US). Many engineering/research positions list "Boston, Remote, San Francisco".
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Exposure to cutting-edge AI and formal methods; opportunity to work with top defense contractors; high autonomy and a flat structure (only 63 employees).
- **Growth trajectory**: 182.8% headcount growth and fundraising momentum signal rapid scaling and career advancement potential.

## Sources
1. [codemetal.ai – Homepage](https://codemetal.ai/)
2. [codemetal.ai – Careers](https://www.codemetal.ai/careers)
3. [CBInsights – Company Profile & Financials](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/code-metal)
4. [LinkedIn – Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-metal)
5. [PitchBook – Valuation & Funding](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/548367-58)

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