About this role.
Tremendous seeks a Senior Product Manager to investigate and validate high-priority new product opportunities before a dedicated squad exists. The role combines customer and market research, opportunity sizing, roadmap development, prototyping, and detailed product specification. This PM will independently lead one or two ambiguous initiatives, recommend whether to staff, build, hand off, or stop them, and occasionally cover an existing squad. Success depends on zero-to-one product experience, technical and design fluency, strong judgment, and exceptional asynchronous written communication. The position is fully remote for candidates in the Americas and reports to the co-founder and Head of Product.
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Sample interview questions
I would explain the original customer or business problem, the assumptions that were uncertain, and the research methods used to validate them. I would then outline how I sized the opportunity, aligned stakeholders on a decision, created a prioritized roadmap and specifications, and measured the launch outcome against the original hypothesis.
I would assess strategic alignment, customer evidence, expected impact, implementation complexity, urgency, and the ongoing ownership required. A durable, high-impact problem with a substantial roadmap merits a squad; a contained opportunity can be delivered with a small cross-functional group; closely related work should move to the owning squad; weak evidence or limited upside should result in a documented stop decision.
I use AI to accelerate synthesis of support tickets, call transcripts, product data, and competitor information, then trace important findings back to source evidence. I treat AI output as a research accelerator rather than proof, validating high-impact conclusions through direct customer conversations, quantitative data, and prototype testing.
An effective memo clearly defines the problem, customer segments, evidence, alternatives, recommendation, expected impact, risks, and explicit decisions needed. It is concise but sufficiently detailed for stakeholders to challenge assumptions and for an engineering team to begin implementation without repeated clarification.
I would share how I recognized the thesis was not supported, communicated the evidence transparently, and recommended ending or redirecting the initiative before substantial resources were committed. I would emphasize what the team learned, how the findings informed future prioritization, and why treating a well-supported kill decision as success protected focus.
Tremendous is the global platform built for businesses to send thousands of payouts to anyone, anywhere, for free. We’re trusted by 20,000 organizations like Atlassian, MIT, and United Way to deliver gift cards and money to millions of recipients worldwide.
Our customers (researchers, marketers, HR teams, nonprofits, and platform businesses) rave about how fast and easy Tremendous is to use. Check out our ratings on G2.
Tremendous is profitable and growing without outside investors. We’re a fully remote, high-documentation, low-meeting culture, which means more time for what matters in both your professional and personal life. The team agrees– our employee NPS is in the high 80s.
About the role
Most PMs at Tremendous run a squad. This role owns problems instead.
We’re growing fast and spinning up new product areas. Each one needs research, a roadmap, and shovel-ready specs before we staff it. That’s your job. You’ll dig into areas where we might launch a squad, and run projects too small to need one.
You’ll carry one or two projects at a time, drawn from the company’s highest-priority open questions. When a problem proves worth solving, what happens next depends on how big the opportunity is.
If it justifies a long-term team, you’ll likely build that squad and lead it as its PM. If it’s worth building but smaller, you’ll build it yourself with an engineer or two and design help from a related squad. If it’s small and close to an existing squad’s work, you’ll hand it off with a finished brief, and that squad’s PM will carry it forward. You’ll have real influence over new project areas and which teams exist a year from now.
Today, the product management org is 7 PMs, led by a co-founder who serves as Head of Product.
You will
Report to our Co-founder / Head of Product, Kapil Kale
Own new product areas before they have a team. Develop a thesis, do the research, size the opportunity, and make a recommendation: spin up a squad, build it lean, hand it off, or kill it. Kill calls are as valuable as green lights.
Turn research into shovel-ready work. Your output is briefs, prototypes, and specs that a squad can pick up and build immediately.
Move quickly using AI. Use agents to dig through customer tickets, sales calls, usage data, and competitor research. Ship clickable prototypes in days to test ideas with real customers.
Run projects that don’t need a full squad. Some work is worth doing but too small for a team. You’ll drive these end-to-end with engineers from existing squads.
Cover a squad when needed. If a team is temporarily without a PM, you may step in. This is occasional, and your portfolio comes first.
Work async. Most product work here happens in writing. If you’re used to running product through meetings, this will feel different.
You have
6+ years building and shipping web applications as a designer, engineer, or product manager at tech companies, with at least 2 years taking new products from zero to one.
Comfortable being the only person accountable for an initiative that doesn’t have a team yet.
Comfortable owning a portfolio instead of a single product. If validation kills your thesis, you move to the next bet without drama.
A track record of turning ambiguous opportunities into prioritized, shovel-ready roadmaps.
Strong product intuition, design judgment, and technical fluency. You hold your own with designers and engineers.
Outstanding written communication. We’re documentation-first, and this role runs on briefs and decision memos that need to persuade senior stakeholders.
Founder, founding PM, or first-product-hire experience is a strong plus.
What’s cool about the role
Competitive pay and equity. Base salary for this role: $250,000 to $325,000.
Real benefits. 100% covered health (US), unlimited PTO, 12-16 weeks paid parental leave.
Fully remote. Work from anywhere in the Americas.
Great culture. Read more about how we work in our public handbook.
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