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title: 'Senior Product Manager at Nace AI'
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# Senior Product Manager at Nace AI

- **Company:** Nace AI
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai/b6df4ec4-2a5e-4f15-a2d0-c36e2c5df914

## Job description

## Role Overview

We are seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of [Nace.AI](http://Nace.AI)’s AI-Agentic products. You will define product vision, analyze user and market needs, and work closely with engineering, design, and ML teams to deliver scalable, high-impact features. You will manage the full product lifecycle and ensure solutions align with business goals and user expectations. Key Responsibilities:

- Define and maintain the product roadmap, prioritizing features based on user value and business impact.
- Translate customer feedback, market trends, and data insights into actionable product requirements.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, and AI/ML teams to deliver high-quality product releases on time.
- Oversee the full product lifecycle—from discovery and scoping to launch, testing, and iteration.
- Set, monitor, and analyze product KPIs to drive data-informed decisions and continuous improvement.
- Conduct user research and validate assumptions through experiments, prototypes, and feedback loops.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
- Experience as a Product Manager, ideally in SaaS or AI/ML products.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to work cross-functionally in fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with AI/ML products or data platforms.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and modern PM tools (Linear, Figma, Miro, Notion, etc).
- Startup or high-growth environment experience.We are seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of [Nace.AI](http://Nace.AI)’s AI-Agentic products.

Why [Nace.AI](http://Nace.AI)? Pedigree: Work with a team from top-tier institutions and companies, backed by the best VCs in the world. Impact: You are joining early enough to shape the culture and the growth roadmap of a company aiming to be the "OS" for professional knowledge. Competitive Package: Silicon Valley-standard salary, significant equity, and premium benefits.

## About Nace AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nace AI builds long-horizon reasoning models and AI agents that audit, reconcile, and report on financial and compliance data for enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A – $21.5M raised in 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Zhanibek Datbayev (CTO/Co-Founder), Ritesh Shrivastava (Co-Founder), Sudha Valluru (COO/Co-Founder), Swathi B (Co-Founder), and others

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Audit, Compliance, Finance, Accounting, Enterprise AI
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – specifically audit firms, finance departments, compliance teams, and professional services firms
- **Mission**: Build long-horizon AI that runs organizations; give professionals their time back by automating high-stakes knowledge work

## Products & Services
- **Metamodel**: A specialized small language model (SLM) platform that enterprises can customize with their own policies and knowledge. Used for audit, contract governance, and financial reporting.
- **Agentic Accounting**: AI agent that executes end-to-end financial audits, billing audits, and revenue leakage detection by connecting directly to databases.
- **Nace Verification Intelligence**: Evidence-based reasoning engine that processes up to 1 million files (PDFs, spreadsheets, databases) to automate SOX 404 reports, contract compliance checks, and due diligence.
- **Nace Process Automation**: Automatically maps transaction flows across 10+ disparate databases to visualize and reconcile processes.
- **The Macros**: A research preview product that lets power users create custom AI macros for repetitive professional tasks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $21.5M (May 2026 round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES); earlier $5M seed round (April 2025) led by General Catalyst.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Walden Catalyst Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Launched from stealth in March 2025 with Metamodel 1
  - Raised $21.5M within 14 months of founding
  - Operations in 7 countries (US, Kazakhstan, India, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia)
  - 2,574 LinkedIn followers (+141% YoY)
  - Active job postings for senior roles (Product Manager, Audit Consultant, Growth Lead)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Metamodel approach**: Enterprises can turn internal policies and employee knowledge into custom, on‑premise AI models, enforcing consistency and accuracy.
- **Evidence‑based reasoning**: The system explains exactly where it looked and why – building trust in regulated environments (SOC 2 Type II, AICPA audited infrastructure).
- **Small model efficiency**: Uses specialized small language models (SLMs) instead of massive general LLMs, making deployments faster, cheaper, and compliant with data sovereignty requirements.
- **End‑to‑end automation**: Covers the entire audit workflow – from raw database ingestion to boardroom‑ready reports – without any manual spreadsheet work.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the Metamodel platform**: Turn enterprise policies into custom AI agents for every department.
- **Expand into adjacent compliance verticals** (tax, due diligence, contract governance).
- **Grow the team** across engineering, product, and go‑to‑market roles (currently 39–50 employees, with a heavy technical tilt of ~45%).
- **Maintain on‑premises / hybrid cloud deployments** to meet strict regulatory requirements of audit and finance clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced research‑first environment assembling a “world‑class team” to solve high‑stakes scaling challenges in AI reasoning.
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (Palo Alto offices); many roles are in‑office for close collaboration on complex ML and product work.
- **Team composition**: Heavy technical concentration (45% of staff are engineers/researchers), with deep domain expertise from ex‑Dropbox, Bloomberg, McKinsey, and AI labs.
- **Impact**: Build infrastructure that gives audit, compliance, and finance professionals their time back – directly reduces manual drudgery in multi‑billion‑dollar compliance markets.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company emphasizes “autonomy, impact, and working on the hardest AI problems in enterprise.”

## Sources
1. [nace.ai](https://nace.ai/)
2. [nace.ai/careers](https://nace.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Nace AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nace-ai)
4. [Built In – Nace.AI](https://builtin.com/company/nace-ai)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com – Nace AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai)

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