Helpjuice

Senior Product Manager

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Join our Team as a Senior Product Manager

At Helpjuice, our team is our biggest asset, and we're here to empower them to do their best work. We've been 100% remote since 2011 — think small local bakery, not a hyped-up startup. About 20 of us, spread across the world, profitable, no VC theater, and having fun along the way while we build the #1 knowledge base software.

We already have two great product managers. We're adding a more senior, more proven one — someone who's grown real products and can see three moves ahead. The knowledge base as "a place to dump articles" is dying: people want answers, not articles, and AI is rewriting the whole category. Your job is to figure out where Helpjuice needs to be in 1, 2, and 5 years, name the one big leap that gets us there, and roadmap the features to close the gap. You'll work directly with the CEO.

What you'll do

Study the competitive landscape and where the category is actually heading — then paint where Helpjuice should be in 1/2/5 years vs. today
Name the single biggest gap or leap we have to make, and defend why it's the leap
Roadmap and sequence the features to get there, under real engineering constraints
Prototype the future with AI tools (v0, Cursor, Claude, Lovable) to pressure-test ideas fast — not just write specs and hand off
Steer by metrics (activation, retention, expansion) and prioritize ruthlessly
Work directly with the CEO, design, and engineering — no product-by-committee

Who you are

Excellent written English — this role lives in strategy docs, so it's the top gate
A proven track record of growing products: a roadmap you owned, a metric you moved, real numbers
You see where the market is going before others do, and can prove it
You actually build prototypes with AI — proof, not promises
Fluent in SaaS metrics, and comfortable saying "no" to good ideas to ship the right one

Before you apply, some honesty

Our environment is relaxed, but the bar is high. This is a proven-experts seat — if you've never grown a product and can't point to the numbers, it's better not to apply. If you still call a knowledge base "a place to store articles," this isn't your seat. If the AI shift excites you, read on.

Perks & how we work

100% remote, flexible schedule, annual team retreats in places like Portugal and Sarajevo
Real ownership, real mentorship, and direct access to the founder
We're radically transparent about pay: tell us your number, and if it's fair we meet or exceed it — we don't haggle

Ready? Fill out this application — including your monthly salary expectation in USD — for a chance to join a diverse team of motivated folks who love challenging the status quo! There's a short paid test project as part of the process. We reply within 24 hours and expect the same from you.

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We're Helpjuice — think 'small local bakery' energy, not a cool startup or a less-cool Neuralink. ~20 people, 100% remote since 2011, profitable, no VC theater. Watch our short Loom about how we work, then tell us: do you genuinely align with how we work, and why? *

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Link to products you've grown. Pick ONE where you owned the roadmap: what state was it in when you took it, what did you decide to build, what did you deliberately say NO to, and what metric did you move — with real numbers? *

Knowledge bases are being reshaped by AI — people increasingly want answers, not articles. Spend a bit of time with Helpjuice, then paint where a product like ours should be in 1, 2, and 5 years vs. today, name the SINGLE biggest gap or leap we'd have to make to get there, and sketch the handful of features or bets you'd sequence in each horizon (year 1 / 2 / 5) to close it. *

Where do you think our category is heading and who's setting the pace? Place Helpjuice on that map today, and name the one thing you'd change about how we position ourselves. *

Show us something you've actually prototyped with AI tools (v0, Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, etc.) — link it or describe it: what you built, in how long, and what it let you learn or decide faster. Bonus: mock a rough version of one idea from the vision question. *

You have that 1/2/5-year vision but limited engineering capacity. How do you decide what to build first vs. defer? Walk through your actual framework on a real example. *

Which product metrics do you steer by, and tell us about a decision you made because the data told you to — including one time the data changed your mind. *

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