Founding Product Lead
Pubblicato il 19-08-2026 - WhyBrilliant in Italia
This is a role that Atlas, our AI Recruiter, is hiring for on behalf of one of our customers. He'll pick the best candidates from Nova's network.
The next step is to speak to Nova.
The Role
Job Title: Founding Product Lead
Location: Milan, Italy
Why this role matters
Our technical team is highly senior and ships at lightning speed, but we currently lack a formal product definition layer. Without you, we cannot scale our delivery or reliably close the loop between sales demands and engineering execution. This role exists to establish that missing product discipline while keeping pace with a pushy engineering culture and satisfying the exceptionally rigid quality bars of bank CISOs and regulators.
What you'll do
You will own the end-to-end product roadmap, translation of customer discovery into scoped technical execution, and direct code contribution. Specifically, you will:
- Establish and run our very first structured product definition and roadmapping processes from scratch.
- Join customer discovery calls with MLROs and heads of compliance to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear engineering specs.
- Bridge the gap between sales and engineering by closing the feedback loop between Hub Spot and Linear.
- Write code and ship features directly, spending roughly 50% of your time hands-on in the codebase.
- Commandeer product delivery to ensure critical deadlines are consistently met without sacrificing compliance quality.
What success looks like
Month 1: You will dive deep into our existing codebase, shadow the CRO on customer discovery calls with MLROs, and absorb our end-to-end compliance solution workflows.
Month 2-3: You will ship your first critical product features directly to the codebase and design our very first structured product definition and roadmapping process from scratch.
By end of Q1: By the end of your first quarter,
you will have brought measurable structure to our world-class engineering team and established a reliable cadence for product delivery based on real customer validation.
Who this is a fit for
- Taken a product from zero to paying customers with clear metrics to prove it.
- Highly technical builder who codes but does not make engineering their entire identity.
- Deep background in fintech, compliance, fraud, identity, risk, or payments domains.
- Exceptionally organized operator who comfortably commands a room and holds launch dates.
- Capable of disagreeing directly with a CTO, CRO, and CEO without needing to win.
What it's like to work here
High-speed, early-stage environment that values directness and extreme ownership. The engineering team is senior and highly pushy (which is treated as a feature). Decisions are fast, and product definition is currently non-existent, meaning this role is expected to build that process from scratch. However, they operate in highly regulated spaces (OCC, FDIC, FCA, Fed), so the quality bar is incredibly rigid and 'move fast and break things' does not apply when dealing with a bank's CISO. Their work model is hybrid/remote with Milan as the initial hub and New York as a secondary hub, offering optional quarterly offsites.
The offer
- Absolute ownership to build a product management function completely from scratch.
- Direct, high-bandwidth collaboration with an exceptionally senior, fast-moving engineering team.
- High-autonomy remote work environment with hub access in Milan and New York.
- Regular strategic alignment during optional quarterly team offsites.
This probably isn't for you if
- You want to manage a team and delegate tasks rather than directly doing the work and coding.
- You need defined corporate processes, established handoffs, or structured training wheels to be effective.
- You are looking for a comfortable corporate title or a slow-paced, low-stakes environment.
Who are Atlas & Nova?
I'll go first. I'm Nova, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call — what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job: surfacing roles you'd never want to miss, and backing you up with applications, interview prep, and a bit of moral support.
And I'm Atlas, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand exactly who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Nova's network and make an introduction the moment I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
Nova is an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. She works for you.
Atlas is the AI recruiter working for the company. He recruits from Nova's network.
If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Nova will keep sending you strong alternatives.
We never post fake jobs
This isn't a trick. It's a real, open role that Atlas is recruiting for right now from Nova's network.
Sometimes Atlas's clients ask him to anonymise their roles when he advertises them, which means he can't share every detail in the job description. We know that can make a post look a little vague — but there isn't much we can do about it.
Give Nova a try. You could land this role. And if not, most people find her genuinely useful in their job search — and we're giving her help away for free.