As the first Product Manager at Drafter Inc., you will partner directly with the founders to define the product roadmap and translate complex hardware manufacturing challenges into scalable software solutions. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, ensuring high-leverage impact for mechanical engineers building the world’s most critical hardware.
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Product Manager at Drafter Inc.
Join Drafter Inc. as their first Product Manager and work directly with the founders to build the future of hardware manufacturing. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Drafter Inc. is creating an AI Manufacturing Engineer that automates the transition from design to production for rockets, robots, and medical devices. This high-impact role offers the chance to own the roadmap end-to-end, solving critical bottlenecks for mechanical engineers at the world's most innovative hardware companies. If you are a hungry, high-ownership PM ready to define a new category and earn a significant equity stake in a fast-growing startup, this is your career-defining seat.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
Drafter is building a go-to-manufacturing platform for the world’s most critical hardware, with an AI Manufacturing Engineer that understands design intent and automates real work.
Our customers include the most exciting startups and the most established hardware orgs in the world. Drafter software supercharges efficiency and quality of mechanical teams as they move to manufacturing, reducing production cycles by months, giving engineers 30%+ of their time back for high-leverage work, and ensuring quality and standardization for the robots, energy systems, rocket ships and medical devices they bring to market.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Work directly with the CEO and CTO to define, prioritize, and communicate Drafter Inc.’s strategic product roadmap and narrative.
- Translate ambiguous customer pain points from mechanical engineers into crisp product requirements, specs, and clearly scoped engineering tasks.
- Drive execution by resolving dependencies, making smart tradeoff decisions, and maintaining momentum across the engineering and design teams.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Has 3–10+ years of experience in product management or as a startup founder/operator, with a proven track record of shipping technical products.
- Demonstrates "negative maintenance" ownership—the ability to identify and resolve risks or open questions before they block the team’s execution.
- Possesses strong technical instincts and the ability to earn trust with world-class engineers working on computational geometry and AI/ML.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- First Product Manager hire: You will stop asking for permission and start making the calls, shaping the product culture and operating cadence from the ground up.
- High-impact mission: Your work directly accelerates the production of humanoid robots, lunar rovers, and life-saving medical devices by automating the hardest parts of manufacturing.
- Elite backing: Join a high-performing team of 30, supported by world-class investors like Khosla Ventures, in a role offering significant equity and 99th-percentile benefits.
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