Product Lead

About this role

Job Title: Product Lead

Location: Los Angeles

Reporting to: Co-Founder

About 8Fleet:

8Fleet is building the foundational physical world infrastructure layer for autonomous and non-autonomous ridesharing — the scaffolding that makes mass AV adoption commercially viable. We are the fastest growing fleet operator in the world.

About the Role:

We are seeking a seasoned and versatile person to run Product. This is a rare, zero-to-one hire. You will sit at the intersection of product execution and growth strategy — embedded with engineering to ship product that moves the needle, and accountable for the metrics that prove it. This role demands someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can take ambiguous requirements and turn them into robust, high-quality, and scalable solutions, and can mentor peers in best practices. You will have an outsized influence on how this company scales.

What You'll Do:

PRODUCT EXECUTION

- Own PRDs end-to-end — from problem definition through engineering delivery and post-launch measurement

- Be the connective tissue between business goals and technical implementation; translate operator insights and partner requirements into crisp specs

- Run sprint planning, manage the product backlog, and ruthlessly prioritize against growth impact

- Define and instrument success metrics for every feature shipped; hold yourself and the team accountable to outcomes, not output

- Use AI-native tools (Cursor, Claude, Replit, etc.) as a force-multiplier — prototype ideas yourself, generate test data, automate QA loops, and reduce back-and-forth with Eng

B2B PARTNERSHIPS & AV ECOSYSTEM

- Build and deepen the product relationships with rideshare partners (Uber, Lyft, etc) and inbound AV OEM/operator partners

- Identify integration opportunities, joint GTM motions, and exclusive data-sharing arrangements that create durable competitive moat

- Own the partner product roadmap — surface their needs, translate them into internal priorities, and close the feedback loop

DRIVER & OPERATOR ACQUISITION AND RETENTION

- Design and own the funnel from driver awareness to active fleet contributor — including onboarding, activation, and long-term retention loops

- Develop and ship driver-facing product features that improve quality scores, earnings reliability, and satisfaction

- Leverage data to identify drop-off points, experiment aggressively, and ship fast

PLATFORM GROWTH LOOPS & DATA

- Build and own the growth model: identify the compounding loops in fleet scale, utilization, and partner economics that make 8Fleet's network effects defensible

- Develop a proprietary data strategy — define what to capture, how to structure it, and how to turn it into fleet intelligence that competitors cannot replicate

- Partner with engineering to ship internal tools that give operators real-time visibility and dynamic decision-making capability

- Design and run structured growth experiments; synthesize learnings into a compounding playbook

What You'll Bring to the Table:

- 5-9 years in product management or growth product, ideally at a hypergrowth company (mobility, logistics, marketplace, or gig economy strongly preferred)

- Demonstrably AI-native: you use LLMs, automation, and AI tooling daily as productivity infrastructure — not as a novelty

- Strong technical fluency; comfortable reading code, writing SQL, and in a room with senior engineers without losing credibility

- Experience shipping B2B or platform product in addition to consumer-facing surfaces

- Data-driven to your core — you build models before you make recommendations, and you know the difference between a metric and a KPI

- Exceptional written clarity; your PRDs and strategy memos are the kind people forward

Bonus Points For:

- Background at Uber, Lyft, Via, Waymo, Cruise, or a fleet management software company

- Experience in a founder-adjacent or "first product hire" role at an early-stage company

- Hands-on with growth infrastructure: experimentation frameworks, attribution modeling, lifecycle tooling

- Prior experience managing or deeply collaborating on partner integrations (API-level or business-level)

How We Work:

We are not building a bureaucracy. We are building infrastructure for a trillion-dollar market shift, and we are doing it with a small, exceptional team. That means:

- High autonomy, high accountability — you own outcomes, not just tasks

- AI tools are table stakes, not a differentiator; we expect everyone to operate at 10x the output of a traditional team

- Decisions get made fast. We debate once, align, and ship. You will be expected to do the same

- You will have direct access to founders and be in the room for the strategic decisions that shape the company

Compensation and Benefits:

- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience

- Meaningful equity — this is an early, high-impact hire and will be reflected in your option grant

- Performance-based incentives tied to company growth milestones

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

- Flexible work environment with strong bias toward in-person for key planning and partner work