--- title: 'Product Manager at Valdera' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-valdera-san-francisco-kz63qaf7dhv8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-10' --- # Product Manager at Valdera - **Company:** Valdera - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-09-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/valdera/34df3f73-fbd1-4795-8b0c-5d6f7dded6a2 ## Job description About Us: At Valdera, we help manufacturers bring their ideas to life by transforming how they source materials. Our platform makes it easy to find the best materials and suppliers, enabling them to build high-quality products and deliver them to millions of people worldwide. We are a fast-growing team with a proven track record of working with Fortune 500 industrial manufacturers, beauty brands, and chemical companies. We hire talented, driven individuals who thrive in high-performance environments and want to grow their careers quickly. Our culture empowers top talent to take on meaningful challenges, collaborate with industry leaders, and see the real impact of their work. If you’re looking for a fast-paced environment where your ideas drive change, Valdera is the place for you. Join us and help shape the future of manufacturing. Role Description: We are seeking a product manager to specifically spearhead the strategy and execution of our AI-native products. This is a role for a leader who thrives at the intersection of deep technology, exceptional design, and business strategy. Your mission is to deliver the AI-powered systems and autonomous agents that unlock unprecedented scale and efficiency for our customers. This role is for someone who has a relentless focus on craftsmanship, whether it's ensuring the integrity of data sources or perfecting the pixels of an interface. Role Responsibilities: - Own the AI Product Vision & Strategy: Define the "what" and the "why" for our AI roadmap. Develop a deep understanding of our users and the market to create a compelling strategy for building a category-defining, intelligent product. - Define and Ship Autonomous Agents: Be the driving force behind our agentic systems. You will specify the agents' goals, behaviors, and success metrics for automating complex workflows like market analysis, supplier engagement, and user onboarding. - Master the Data Landscape: Go deep on data. You will lead the research to identify, evaluate, and prioritize the critical data sources—market data, pricing feeds, chemical specifications—that will be the lifeblood of our models. - Champion an Exceptional User Experience: You believe that powerful AI deserves a world-class interface. You will own the user experience from end-to-end, ensuring our products are not just functional but also visually stunning, intuitive, and a delight to use. - Drive Business Outcomes: You will be directly responsible for the success of your products. You'll define and track key metrics, ensuring your work leads to high-revenue generation, strong product-market fit, and exceptional customer retention. - Lead the End-to-End Product Lifecycle: Manage the entire process from ideation, user research, and technical specification to launch, iteration, and post-launch analysis in a highly agile environment. Experience & Qualifications: - Shipped AI-Native Products: You have a proven track record of shipping products built on modern AI architectures (e.g., RAG, agentic frameworks) from initial concept to launch and iteration. You’ve moved beyond prototypes and have delivered real value to users. - Product Ownership with P&L Impact: You have previously owned a product's P&L or key growth metrics (revenue, retention, engagement), with a clear, demonstrable line from your product decisions to significant business impact. - Deep, Practical Knowledge of Agentic Systems: You understand how autonomous agents work at a fundamental level. You’ve either built agent prototypes yourself or have defined and shipped products that use them to automate complex, multi-step tasks. - Exceptional Design-eye: You have a portfolio or a history of shipping products with outstanding visual design and intuitive UX. You obsess over the details of an interface and can articulate and defend your design decisions. - Hands-On Technical Investigation: You have experience digging into highly technical domains to become an expert. You are comfortable reading technical documentation, evaluating data sources for quality and coverage, and partnering with engineers on system architecture decisions. - Relentlessly Detail Oriented: You have a reputation for being meticulously detail-oriented. You leave no stone unturned, from the edge cases in a data source to the pixels on a screen to the wording of an error message. Salary Range: Salary ranges are determined by multiple factors, including the labor market, market compensation bands, internal parity, and budget considerations. The final offer will be based on the candidate’s individual skills, qualifications, location, and experience relative to the requirements of the role. Benefits: Valdera offers generous benefits to employees. Full time employees are eligible for premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance coverage. You will be provided a more detailed breakdown of your options prior to joining Valdera. Equal Opportunity Employer Statement: Valdera is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We are dedicated to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination, where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute. Please note that Valdera uses E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires. ## About Valdera ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Valdera is an AI-powered digital sourcing platform that helps businesses buy and sell chemicals and raw materials efficiently. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with an office in Casciana Terme Lari, Italy) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Sruti Arulmani (CEO) and Dheev Arulmani (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Chemical and raw materials procurement / supply chain technology. - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise buyers and suppliers across industries such as chemical manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, beauty, food & beverage, industrial manufacturing, oil & gas, automotive, and more. - **Mission/Purpose**: To modernize the antiquated chemical sourcing process using AI, data science, and machine learning, bringing transparency, efficiency, and sustainability to direct materials procurement. ## Products & Services - **Valdera Platform (SaaS)**: An AI operating system for chemical and raw material procurement. It ingests a buyer’s total raw material spend, creates a digital control tower of materials and suppliers, applies market intelligence, and enables end-to-end workflows including supplier discovery, RFQ routing, quoting, logistics evaluation, and qualification of new materials. The platform is not a marketplace or distributor; it matches buyers with qualified, best-fit suppliers globally. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available. - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised **$15M** (Series A led by Index Ventures, announced October 2024; previous seed round in October 2021). - **Notable Investors**: Index Ventures (lead), with 5 investors participating in the Series A. - **Growth Signals**: - Database of **400,000+ suppliers**, **1.7M+ CAS numbers**, spanning **130 countries**. - Partners with Fortune 500 industrial manufacturers and major household names in beauty, pharma, etc. (customers spending >$10B in raw materials). - Featured at DPW New York 2026, a leading procurement and supply chain technology event. - Headcount of approximately **40 employees** (LinkedIn, verified) distributed across 12 countries. - Active hiring for roles such as Customer Success Manager, Chemical Data Scientist, Forward Deployed Engineer, Founding Enterprise Account Executive, and Product Manager. ## Competitive Advantages - **Vertical focus**: Unlike generic LLMs, Valdera builds its data architecture and AI models specifically for chemicals and raw materials, handling complex specifications, chemical structures, and regulatory requirements. - **Vast proprietary dataset**: The platform’s market intelligence draws on an extensive supplier and CAS-number database, enabling accurate discovery and qualification. - **End-to-end digitization**: Covers the entire workflow of a category manager, from spend analysis to supplier qualification, reducing manual processes and enabling 10–50x capability improvements. ## Strategic Focus - Continue to expand the platform’s market intelligence layer and AI capabilities for direct materials procurement. - Drive adoption among large industrial and consumer goods buyers. - Enable sustainability tracking (packaging, shipping, environmental impact) as part of the sourcing process. - Grow the partner ecosystem and support global expansion (office in Italy, remote workforce across 12 countries). ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Mission**: Opportunity to build “the world’s best procurement sourcing platform” and disrupt a massive, antiquated industry using cutting-edge AI and data science. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first working environment; office spaces available in San Francisco and New York. - **Compensation & Benefits**: - 100% employer-paid premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision (coverage for dependents also available). - Competitive compensation, pre-IPO equity with 4-year vest and 1-year cliff, plus 401(k) with Traditional & ROTH options. - Monthly wellness bonus. - Generous and flexible PTO, sick leave, parental leave, and 11 company-paid holidays. - **Engineering Culture**: Roles include Forward Deployed Engineer and Chemical Data Scientist, focusing on real-world AI/ML challenges in supply chain. The team values accuracy and domain expertise over generic models. ## Sources 1. [Valdera Homepage](https://www.valdera.com/) 2. [Valdera About Page](https://www.valdera.com/about/) 3. [Valdera Careers (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/valdera) 4. [Valdera LinkedIn Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/valdera) 5. 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