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title: 'Lead Product Manager, New Verticals at AirOps'
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# Lead Product Manager, New Verticals at AirOps

- **Company:** AirOps
- **Location:** New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airops/1fb9d97f-def8-49f9-8adb-e9d15382c489

## Job description

## About AirOps

AirOps is the full-service platform for brand growth in the age of AI search. As consumers shift from traditional search engines to platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, the entire ruleset of growth is being rewritten. Buyers now rely on agents to discover, recommend, and purchase products and services for them. If your brand isn't part of the answer, you aren't in the running. Our platform offers everything a brand needs to get found, recommended, and earn trust. We work with category leaders, including teams at Ramp, Chime, Airbnb, ServiceNow, and Rippling, to drive visibility and accelerate growth from AI search. Backed by Greylock, Unusual Ventures, Wing VC, and Founder Collective, we're headquartered in San Francisco, New York, and Montevideo.

## About the role

We're scaling AirOps into a full-stack AI Search offering for brands, and we need someone to own the build from the inside. As the Lead Product Manager for New Verticals, you are effectively a founder-in-residence with the scale, capital, and speed of AirOps behind you. Your mandate is pure exploration and validation: identify untapped marketing and acquisition channels, run aggressive quant-heavy experiments, build out robust reporting foundations, and formulate clear hypotheses on where AirOps should make multi-million dollar product investments next. You won't just be managing a roadmap; you'll be navigating total ambiguity, diving into SQL and funnel analysis, co-building with top customers, and transforming early performance signals into AirOps’ next core product lines. If you thrive on blank space, hyper-growth pace, and pure 0-to-1 ownership, this is your playground.

## What you'll own

- 0-to-1 Channel & Product Incubation: Uncover, size, and test brand-new channels of business to expand AirOps into a complete growth marketing ecosystem.
- Data-Driven Experimentation: Formulate crisp hypotheses and run rapid, quantitative tests to evaluate activation, adoption, and expansion potential before committing heavy engineering resources.
- Measurement & Data Foundations: Build the core analytics foundation (funnel tracking, success metrics, leading indicators, custom dashboards) to rigorously prove or disprove channel viability.
- Investment Hypotheses & Playbooks: Turn validated experiments into repeatable GTM playbooks, pricing models, and strategic business cases that guide company-wide resource allocation.
- Customer Co-Building: Partner directly with forward-thinking marketing and growth leaders to translate ambiguous edge-case feedback into scalable product bets.

## What you'll bring

- The Founder Archetype: You’ve founded a company, led a product at an early-stage startup, or spearheaded 0-to-1 growth bets inside a hyper-growth company.
- Strong Quantitative & Data Background: Deep experience with data-heavy products and analytics frameworks. You don't just consume dashboards - you build them, write your own SQL, analyze complex funnels, and make confident calls with incomplete data.
- Hypothesis-Driven Mindset: High-velocity instinct for testing. You know how to build low-fidelity MVPs and track early signals to validate demand before over-engineering a solution.
- Relentless Product Prioritization: Exceptional product instincts that balance customer empathy with brutal prioritization. Saying "no" to low-leverage ideas to focus entirely on high-potential growth vectors.
- Executive Presence & Co-Building Skill: High bandwidth to command the room with executive buyers, operate alongside technical teams, and collaborate across Growth, Data, Product, and Sales.

Nice to haves

- Experience building or scaling data-dense products within MarTech, AdTech, SEO, AI Search, or Content Marketing.
- Prior history navigating rapid expansion phases ($10M → $50M+ ARR) at a venture-backed tech company.

Our Guiding Principles

- Extreme Ownership
- Quality
- Curiosity and Play
- Make Our Customers Heroes
- Respectful Candor

## Benefits

- Equity in a fast-growing startup
- Competitive benefits package tailored to your location
- Flexible time off policy
- Parental Leave
- A fun-loving and (just a bit) nerdy team that loves to move fast!

## About AirOps

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AirOps provides an end-to-end content engineering platform that helps brands optimize their visibility across AI search engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, and Claude.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Alex Halliday (CEO) and Matt Hammel (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered marketing technology / AI Engine Optimization (AEO)
- **Target customers**: B2B – marketing teams at mid-market and enterprise companies; also e-commerce, marketplaces, and product teams
- **Mission or purpose**: Help brands get found – and stay found – in the AI era by giving marketing teams the systems they need to win visibility across AI search and SEO with quality content.

## Products & Services
- **AirOps Platform**: A SaaS platform that monitors brand visibility across eight AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Amazon Rufus, etc.), identifies content gaps, and orchestrates content creation and updates. Includes citation tracking, competitor intelligence, and share-of-voice measurement.
- **Quill (AI Agent)**: An autonomous AI agent that continuously monitors content performance, identifies stale or missing information, and drafts updates or new content for human approval. Quill is powered by a proprietary dataset of over 2.5 billion AI search responses.
- **AirOps University**: A certification program to train marketers as “Content Engineers” in AI search strategies.
- **Professional Services**: Hands-on training, strategy consulting, and dedicated support from AirOps’ AEO and SEO experts.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$62.5 million** (Seed: $7M led by Wing Venture Capital; Series A: $15.5M led by Unusual Ventures; Series B: $40M led by Greylock) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airopshq)
- **Estimated Annual Revenue**: $500,000 (source: LinkedIn, likely a third-party estimate) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airopshq)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Wing Venture Capital, Unusual Ventures, Greylock
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew **260% YoY** to 117 employees (LinkedIn data) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airopshq); more recent reporting in May 2026 indicates **140 employees** with plans to exceed 200 by year-end – [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/13/exclusive-airops-targets-emerging-ai-search-market-autonomous-content-optimization-agent/)
  - One customer reported a **165% increase in AI citations** and a **42% increase in share of voice** after deploying Quill – [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/13/exclusive-airops-targets-emerging-ai-search-market-autonomous-content-optimization-agent/)
  - Active job postings: 23 (LinkedIn), with strong hiring momentum (+2200% YoY in job postings) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airopshq)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in AEO**: AirOps is one of the first dedicated platforms for AI Engine Optimization, a rapidly growing market as AI-generated search answers replace traditional blue links.
- **Proprietary data moat**: Has collected over 2.5 billion AI search responses to understand citation patterns, freshness, authority, and writing structure – [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/13/exclusive-airops-targets-emerging-ai-search-market-autonomous-content-optimization-agent/)
- **End-to-end automation with human oversight**: Quill autonomously monitors, drafts, and suggests content but keeps final publishing human-approved, balancing scale with quality control.
- **Multi-engine coverage**: Tracks eight major AI search platforms, not just one, giving customers a holistic view of their AI visibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Pure AEO focus**: AirOps has pivoted from a broader ChatGPT workflow tool to a dedicated AEO platform, which is now its sole focus – [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/13/exclusive-airops-targets-emerging-ai-search-market-autonomous-content-optimization-agent/)
- **Continuous content freshness**: The company emphasizes that “freshness matters much more in AI search than in traditional SEO,” driving a shift from campaign-based to continuous content optimization.
- **Scaling the team**: Plans to grow headcount to over 200 by end of 2026, with open roles in engineering, product, sales, partnerships, and customer enablement – [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/13/exclusive-airops-targets-emerging-ai-search-market-autonomous-content-optimization-agent/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & ratings**: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (28 reviews) with strong marks for culture (4.1), compensation (4.0), and career growth (4.0) – [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airopshq)
- **Work model**: Hybrid / in-office (San Francisco HQ) and remote options available; many roles are listed as “In-Office or Remote” – [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/airops/jobs)
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on LLM-powered AI features, data engineering (ClickHouse, Rails), and building autonomous agents. The team is technically driven with a focus on innovation.
- **Growth opportunity**: Fast-growing startup (260% headcount growth) with a clear market niche; employees can have outsized impact and career acceleration.
- **Hands-on training**: AirOps provides dedicated onboarding, certification through AirOps University, and ongoing support – not just “handing you a login” – [airops.com](https://www.airops.com/)

## Sources
1. [airops.com](https://www.airops.com/) – Official website (product features, mission, services)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/airopshq) – LinkedIn company page (headcount, revenue, funding, employee breakdown, ratings)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/airops/jobs) – Built In profile (open jobs, work model, company details)
4. [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/13/exclusive-airops-targets-emerging-ai-search-market-autonomous-content-optimization-agent/) – SiliconANGLE article (Quill launch, headcount, strategy, customer results)

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