Today's enterprise software is better than ever, but most organizations still run on conversations rather than systems.
Critical work lives across Slack, email, meetings, documents, and people's heads. Existing tools depend on humans to manually update records, push projects forward, and make sure important work doesn't fall through the cracks.
We believe AI should do more.
Thorin is building proactive, long-horizon AI agents that continuously understand what is happening across an organization and help teams execute over weeks, months, and years. Rather than waiting for prompts, Thorin develops a living understanding of how a business actually operates.
Born out of 8VC's Build program and backed by one of Silicon Valley's strongest venture ecosystems, Thorin is building the operating system for the AI-native enterprise.
Own major technical initiatives from ambiguous customer/product problem to architecture, implementation, iteration, and production quality.
Build AI-native product systems involving LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, enterprise context, and workflow automation.
Lead by building: set technical direction, make tradeoffs explicit, review work, unblock others, and raise the quality of a small engineering pod.
Turn product and customer signal into clear technical plans without waiting for perfect requirements.
Staff-level engineering judgment, whether or not your current title says Staff.
Strong hands-on coding ability and architectural taste across production systems, AI applications, infrastructure, agents, or product engineering.
High slope: you have progressed quickly, taken on harder problems, and become someone others trust with ambiguous technical work.
AI-native instincts: you actively use and build with AI systems and understand where they work, fail, and create new product possibilities.
Product judgment: you connect technical choices to user value, customer deployment, product credibility, and business priorities.
Low ego, high standards, and comfort operating before the roadmap is obvious.
Own and ship meaningful production work.
Create clarity around a major technical lane or pod.
Reduce a roadmap or execution bottleneck without adding management overhead.
Competitive compensation and meaningful early equity.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Daily meal support while working with the team.
Unlimited access to frontier AI coding tools.
Direct exposure to founders, investors, design partners, and early customers.
This is an in-person role based in San Francisco. At this stage, we believe the best work happens through high-bandwidth collaboration, fast feedback loops, and shared context with the team.
The expected base salary range for this role is $250,000–$350,000, plus equity and benefits. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skill level, and scope.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT THORIN\n\nToday's enterprise software is better than ever, but most organizations still run on conversations rather than systems.\n\nCritical work lives across Slack, email, meetings, documents, and people's heads. Existing tools depend on humans to manually update records, push projects forward, and make sure important work doesn't fall through the cracks.\n\nWe believe AI should do more.\n\nThorin is building proactive, long-horizon AI agents that continuously understand what is happening across an organization and help teams execute over weeks, months, and years. Rather than waiting for prompts, Thorin develops a living understanding of how a business actually operates.\n\nBorn out of 8VC's Build program and backed by one of Silicon Valley's strongest venture ecosystems, Thorin is building the operating system for the AI-native enterprise.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Own major technical initiatives from ambiguous customer/product problem to architecture, implementation, iteration, and production quality.\n\n - Build AI-native product systems involving LLMs, agents, evals, retrieval, enterprise context, and workflow automation.\n\n - Lead by building: set technical direction, make tradeoffs explicit, review work, unblock others, and raise the quality of a small engineering pod.\n\n - Turn product and customer signal into clear technical plans without waiting for perfect requirements.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Staff-level engineering judgment, whether or not your current title says Staff.\n\n - Strong hands-on coding ability and architectural taste across production systems, AI applications, infrastructure, agents, or product engineering.\n\n - High slope: you have progressed quickly, taken on harder problems, and become someone others trust with ambiguous technical work.\n\n - AI-native instincts: you actively use and build with AI systems and understand where they work, fail, and create new product possibilities.\n\n - Product judgment: you connect technical choices to user value, customer deployment, product credibility, and business priorities.\n\n - Low ego, high standards, and comfort operating before the roadmap is obvious.\n\n\n\n\nIN YOUR FIRST 30 DAYS, YOU WILL\n\n - Own and ship meaningful production work.\n\n - Create clarity around a major technical lane or pod.\n\n - Reduce a roadmap or execution bottleneck without adding management overhead.\n\n\n\n\nBENEFITS\n\n - Competitive compensation and meaningful early equity.\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision coverage.\n\n - Daily meal support while working with the team.\n\n - Unlimited access to frontier AI coding tools.\n\n - Direct exposure to founders, investors, design partners, and early customers.\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis is an in-person role based in San Francisco. At this stage, we believe the best work happens through high-bandwidth collaboration, fast feedback loops, and shared context with the team.\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION \n\nThe expected base salary range for this role is $250,000–$350,000, plus equity and benefits. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skill level, and scope."},{"id":"aec120f1-4858-44a4-a45f-0f87b2ec2434","title":"Product Manager","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-30T20:34:22.672+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"94111","addressRegion":"California","streetAddress":"Pier 5, Suite 101","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thorin/aec120f1-4858-44a4-a45f-0f87b2ec2434","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thorin/aec120f1-4858-44a4-a45f-0f87b2ec2434/application","descriptionHtml":"Today's enterprise software is better than ever, but most organizations still run on conversations rather than systems.
Critical work lives across Slack, email, meetings, documents, and people's heads. Existing tools depend on humans to manually update records, push projects forward, and make sure important work doesn't fall through the cracks.
We believe AI should do more.
Thorin is building proactive, long-horizon AI agents that continuously understand what is happening across an organization and help teams execute over weeks, months, and years. Rather than waiting for prompts, Thorin develops a living understanding of how a business actually operates.
Born out of 8VC's Build program and backed by one of Silicon Valley's strongest venture ecosystems, Thorin is building the operating system for the AI-native enterprise.
About the Role
We're looking for a Founding Technical Product Builder who naturally sits between customers, engineering, and founders. You won't inherit a roadmap. You'll discover what should exist by talking directly with customers, rapidly prototyping ideas, partnering deeply with engineers, and shipping continuously. This is ideal for a former founder, founding PM, Product Engineer, or deeply technical PM who thrives in ambiguity and loves building AI-native products.
What You'll Do
Partner directly with founders and customers to identify high-value problems.
Translate ambiguous customer workflows into AI-native product experiences.
Prototype ideas rapidly using AI before engineering investment.
Work daily with engineers on architecture, implementation tradeoffs, and product decisions.
Define success metrics and iterate quickly from customer feedback.
Ship AI-native products using LLMs, agents, retrieval, workflows, and automation.
Help establish Thorin's product culture and quality bar.
What We're Looking For
6–15 years building technical B2B SaaS products.
Founder, Founding PM, First PM, Product Engineer, or early startup operator strongly preferred.
Strong technical credibility; ideally Computer Science or similar engineering background.
Experience with LLMs, agents, RAG, retrieval, evaluations, AI workflows, or AI UX.
Outstanding customer discovery and product judgment.
High agency and excitement for early-stage environments.
Who Thrives Here
Former founders.
Founding PMs.
Technical PMs who love building.
Engineers who love product.
AI-native builders.
Who This Role Is Not For
Traditional roadmap PMs.
Process-heavy coordinators.
People needing detailed requirements.
Leaders seeking mature organizations over early-stage building.
Benefits & Perks
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• $200/month wellness stipend
• $300/month transportation stipend
• $25/day lunch stipend
• $35/day coffee and snacks stipend
• $500/month developer tools budget
• Prime San Francisco office at Market Street & 3rd
• Weekly team dinners and social events
Today's enterprise software is better than ever, but most organizations still run on conversations rather than systems.
Critical work lives across Slack, email, meetings, documents, and people's heads. Existing tools depend on humans to manually update records, push projects forward, and make sure important work doesn't fall through the cracks.
We believe AI should do more.
Thorin is building proactive, long-horizon AI agents that continuously understand what is happening across an organization and help teams execute over weeks, months, and years. Rather than waiting for prompts, Thorin develops a living understanding of how a business actually operates.
Born out of 8VC's Build program and backed by one of Silicon Valley's strongest venture ecosystems, Thorin is building the operating system for the AI-native enterprise.
About the Role
Forward Deployed Engineers own end-to-end customer outcomes. You will work directly with customers, product, and engineering to understand business-critical workflows, get Thorin live in real operating environments, build the last-mile technical pieces that make deployments successful, and turn customer signal into durable product.
This is not a traditional solutions engineering, implementation, or support role. It is a product-centric engineering role for someone who can sit with executives and frontline users, find the real problem, design an AI-native workflow, prototype or build what is missing, and drive the deployment until the customer would be disappointed to lose Thorin.
What You’ll Do
Run customer discovery with executives, operators, and end users to understand goals, constraints, workflow reality, and adoption blockers.
Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear deployment plans, technical approaches, product requirements, evaluation criteria, and success metrics.
Build, prototype, script, integrate, prompt, and configure the last-mile technical work required to make Thorin useful in production.
Partner with engineering on integrations, permissions, data flows, LLM behavior, agentic task design, reliability, and edge cases.
Use deployments as product laboratories: identify what should become reusable core platform capability versus customer-specific glue.
Drive adoption across customer teams by building trust, teaching the product, troubleshooting issues, and creating a clear operating rhythm.
Represent customer truth inside Thorin with enough technical, product, and commercial clarity that the team can act quickly.
What We’re Looking For
Strong customer empathy and relationship judgment; you can earn trust with executives and users while getting to the real pain underneath the stated ask.
Business acumen; you understand customer incentives, workflow economics, expansion paths, and where Thorin can create the most leverage.
Structured problem-solving in ambiguity; you can break messy deployments into clear decisions, risks, milestones, owners, and next steps.
Hands-on technical ability; you can prototype and debug with APIs, scripts, data flows, integrations, prompts, evals, and modern AI tools.
AI-native product judgment; you understand how LLMs, agents, workflow automation, and product experience can solve real operating problems.
Execution velocity; you know when to prototype, escalate, cut scope, push for product investment, or make a pragmatic deployment call.
Clear communication with founders, customer executives, product, and engineering; you can disagree directly and constructively.
High ownership; you take ambiguous customer problems and drive them to deployed outcomes without waiting for perfect process.
Experience building or deploying software in a customer-facing, ambiguous environment; early-stage startup, FDE, product engineering, technical implementation, or founder/operator experience is especially relevant.
This Role Is Not For You If
You want a pure sales engineering role focused mainly on demos and answering technical questions.
You prefer a support or implementation role where product and engineering define the work for you.
You want a traditional backend role isolated from customers.
You are primarily interested in research or model work without responsibility for production customer value.
You need highly defined requirements, mature process, or a stable roadmap before you can operate effectively.
Benefits & Perks
100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage.
401(k).
$200/month wellness stipend.
$300/month transportation stipend.
$25/day lunch stipend.
$35/day coffee and snacks stipend.
$500/month developer tools budget.
Meaningful equity ownership in an early-stage company.
In-person collaboration with a high-ownership team in San Francisco.
A Note to Candidates
We know great people do not always match every bullet. If this role maps to the kind of work you want to do - building AI-native product in real customer environments, owning outcomes, and operating with urgency - we would like to hear from you.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT THORIN\n\nToday's enterprise software is better than ever, but most organizations still run on conversations rather than systems.\n\nCritical work lives across Slack, email, meetings, documents, and people's heads. Existing tools depend on humans to manually update records, push projects forward, and make sure important work doesn't fall through the cracks.\n\nWe believe AI should do more.\n\nThorin is building proactive, long-horizon AI agents that continuously understand what is happening across an organization and help teams execute over weeks, months, and years. Rather than waiting for prompts, Thorin develops a living understanding of how a business actually operates.\n\nBorn out of 8VC's Build program and backed by one of Silicon Valley's strongest venture ecosystems, Thorin is building the operating system for the AI-native enterprise.\n\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\nForward Deployed Engineers own end-to-end customer outcomes. You will work directly with customers, product, and engineering to understand business-critical workflows, get Thorin live in real operating environments, build the last-mile technical pieces that make deployments successful, and turn customer signal into durable product.\n\nThis is not a traditional solutions engineering, implementation, or support role. It is a product-centric engineering role for someone who can sit with executives and frontline users, find the real problem, design an AI-native workflow, prototype or build what is missing, and drive the deployment until the customer would be disappointed to lose Thorin.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n - Run customer discovery with executives, operators, and end users to understand goals, constraints, workflow reality, and adoption blockers.\n\n - Translate ambiguous customer needs into clear deployment plans, technical approaches, product requirements, evaluation criteria, and success metrics.\n\n - Build, prototype, script, integrate, prompt, and configure the last-mile technical work required to make Thorin useful in production.\n\n - Partner with engineering on integrations, permissions, data flows, LLM behavior, agentic task design, reliability, and edge cases.\n\n - Use deployments as product laboratories: identify what should become reusable core platform capability versus customer-specific glue.\n\n - Drive adoption across customer teams by building trust, teaching the product, troubleshooting issues, and creating a clear operating rhythm.\n\n - Represent customer truth inside Thorin with enough technical, product, and commercial clarity that the team can act quickly.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\n\n - Strong customer empathy and relationship judgment; you can earn trust with executives and users while getting to the real pain underneath the stated ask.\n\n - Business acumen; you understand customer incentives, workflow economics, expansion paths, and where Thorin can create the most leverage.\n\n - Structured problem-solving in ambiguity; you can break messy deployments into clear decisions, risks, milestones, owners, and next steps.\n\n - Hands-on technical ability; you can prototype and debug with APIs, scripts, data flows, integrations, prompts, evals, and modern AI tools.\n\n - AI-native product judgment; you understand how LLMs, agents, workflow automation, and product experience can solve real operating problems.\n\n - Execution velocity; you know when to prototype, escalate, cut scope, push for product investment, or make a pragmatic deployment call.\n\n - Clear communication with founders, customer executives, product, and engineering; you can disagree directly and constructively.\n\n - High ownership; you take ambiguous customer problems and drive them to deployed outcomes without waiting for perfect process.\n\n - Experience building or deploying software in a customer-facing, ambiguous environment; early-stage startup, FDE, product engineering, technical implementation, or founder/operator experience is especially relevant.\n\nThis Role Is Not For You If\n\n - You want a pure sales engineering role focused mainly on demos and answering technical questions.\n\n - You prefer a support or implementation role where product and engineering define the work for you.\n\n - You want a traditional backend role isolated from customers.\n\n - You are primarily interested in research or model work without responsibility for production customer value.\n\n - You need highly defined requirements, mature process, or a stable roadmap before you can operate effectively.\n\nBenefits & Perks\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage.\n\n - 401(k).\n\n - $200/month wellness stipend.\n\n - $300/month transportation stipend.\n\n - $25/day lunch stipend.\n\n - $35/day coffee and snacks stipend.\n\n - $500/month developer tools budget.\n\n - Meaningful equity ownership in an early-stage company.\n\n - In-person collaboration with a high-ownership team in San Francisco.\n\nA Note to Candidates\n\nWe know great people do not always match every bullet. If this role maps to the kind of work you want to do - building AI-native product in real customer environments, owning outcomes, and operating with urgency - we would like to hear from you."}],"apiVersion":"1"}