Product Lead

2 days ago

Toronto, Canada FutureSight Full time

**About the Role**:
We’re looking for a strategic and execution minded Product Management & Strategy lead to guide early-stage B2B AI ventures from formation through to spin out (see our process here). In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of venture strategy, product development and founder support - shaping ideas, validating markets and ensuring MVPs ship and evolve.

You’ll play a hands-on role across multiple ventures simultaneously, partnering with founders, technical teams and studio leadership to push concepts forward and de-risk them into scalable startups.

**You’ll Work On**:
Venture Formation
- Guide venture teams from validated ideas to spin-out readiness
- Act as a dual advocate - representing both venture interests and FutureSights’s strategic lens
- Keep 3-5 parallel venture tracks on cadence through structured reviews, blockers and internal alignment

Product Development
- Lead product discovery, roadmap planning, and MVP scoping for active ventures
- Work closely with technical leads to prioritize features and execute lean product builds
- Serve as interim product owner in early stages; hands off ownership as teams mature

Founder & Team Development
- Thought partner to EIRs; coach on early go-to-market motions, user research, and product feedback loops
- Support recruiting for key hires (e.g. founding engineers, Technical Co-founders)

Internal Tools & Studio IP
- Oversee internal product initiatives for Idea generation, Recruiting automation, venture platform boilerplate
- Align product tooling with venture formation needs

Studio Operations (as needed)
- Manage platform tools (GCP, AWS, OpenAI, Github etc)
- Triage ad-hoc requests from the studio team: events, communications, marketing touchpoints.

**Requirements**:
**What We’re Looking For**:

- 5-8+ years of product management, venture building or early-stage startups
- Proven ability to own product from zero-to-one across multiple domains
- Hands-on with early product work — wireframes, JTBDs, quick specs, etc.
- Strong user discovery skills — comfortable leading interviews and synthesizing insights
- Able to work with ambiguity and move quickly without perfect information
- Strong founder empathy and the ability to balance coaching with forward momentum
- Familiar with lean startup, customer development, and MVP best practices
- Excellent communication and project manager skills — internally and externally

**Bonus Experience**:

- Previous experience in a venture studio, accelerator or as a founder
- Technical background or ability to collaborate closely with engineers
- Prior experience at a venture studio or as a startup founder

**Benefits**

**Why This Role?**:
You’ll shape 3-5 ventures from napkin sketch to spin-out, driving discovery MVP early traction with real autonomy. You’ll ship weekly, test with real customers, and turn hard-won lessons into reusable studio IP that compounds across the portfolio. As a founder-facing leader, you’ll coach EIRs, influence roadmaps, and help make early hires while partnering with studio leadership on investment theses, spin-out criteria, and GTM bets. The role offers portfolio-scale impact, a strategic seat at the table, and career optionality to step into a founding/operator role or grow within the studio—anchored in crisp thinking and clean execution, not process theater.

**Contract & Compensation**:

- 6-month contract with option to convert
- Competitive compensation based on experience

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