Director, Product & Program
About Savo
Savo™ is building the world’s first Human Intelligence Platform—capturing people’s unfiltered words in real time and transforming them into actionable insights. Our AI-powered platform conducts real-time, voice-based structured interviews grounded in measurement science. A multi-agent system extracts behavioral and cognitive signals from spoken language and translates them into evidence-backed intelligence. We replace intuition and anecdote with science-backed human intelligence. We're a small team of passionate builders just out of stealth, and we're looking for "unlocks" to help us scale. Learn more at savo.ai.
The Role
We’re looking for a Director who sits at the intersection of product and program. You own the sense-making, requirement gathering, operations, coordination and execution of our roadmap end-to-end. You look around corners, connect the dots across disciplines, and turn ambitious product bets into shipped software.
You bring operational rigor, deep product judgment, and technical fluency. You translate strategy into executable plans, hold the program together across engineering, science, and design, and own whether what we ship actually lands. This is a remote role with occasional travel (5–10%) for onsite and customer meetings.
This is a builder role. You will design how Savo plans, ships, and validates work, then put that model into the tooling so it runs without being chased. Our stack is deliberately lean and still taking shape, which means the operating model you design is the one the company runs on.
This role matters because:
- Our platform sits at the intersection of real-time voice, LLM inference, psychometric measurement, and enterprise data. It’s a frontier with few established playbooks and a hundred moving parts
- We’re scaling quickly, and we can only move fast if someone owns roadmap execution end-to-end and makes the in-flight calls without escalating every decision
- Science, engineering, product, and customers all need to stay in lockstep, and that doesn’t happen by itself
- Our product is a scientific measurement instrument, not just software. Release discipline must cover both feature quality and whether the measurements we produce can be trusted and defended
What you'll do
Build the operating system
- Design how work moves from strategy through roadmap, development, and deployment, then build that model into our program management tooling (e.g., Linear, Asana, Jira) and the systems around it. The standard is a system people use because it is faster than the alternative
- Build the automation layer yourself with AI enablement and developer collaboration: integrations across Linear, Slack, and Google Workspace, plus the scripts, agents, and workflows that generate status, metrics, and communications rather than a person assembling them
Own Roadmap Execution
- Own the execution of the product roadmap end-to-end, from PRD in hand through shipped, adopted, and measured
- Run the operating system: requirements inputs, sprint cadence, backlog discipline, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and a realistic read on the dates we’d like to hit
- Make the in-flight calls on scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs within your areas; escalate only the genuinely cross-cutting decisions
- Own outcomes alongside ship-dates: did the bet move the metrics, did customers actually use it, did we learn what we set out to learn
- Feed reality back into roadmap planning: what’s actually shippable, where the dependencies sit, what we’re learning from the work
Connect the Dots and Surface Tradeoffs
- Sit at the intersection of product, engineering, applied science, user experience, and customer operations, translating between them so no one is flying blind
- Look around corners: spot the dependency nobody is talking about, the assumption that’s about to break, the customer commitment that’s about to collide with the roadmap
- Surface the hard calls: scope vs. timeline vs. quality, build vs. buy, ship now vs. harden first. Either make them or shepherd the decision, depending on whose seat the tradeoff sits in
Drive Release Readiness and Quality
- Own the “is this shippable?” signal: coordinate QA, regression testing, user testing, launch checklists, rollout plans, and rollback criteria
- Verify that what we said we’d build is what we actually shipped, and that the system operates as expected end-to-end
- Build the operational rhythm (deploy cadence, incident response, on-call norms) that earns enterprise client trust
- Know when to cut scope to ship and when to hold the line on quality
What we're looking for
Product and Program Craft
- Track record of owning product execution at high velocity and large scale: driving the decisions, the deliverables, and the outcomes for product areas you’ve been accountable for
- Deep experience building complex, multi-functional delivery teams from early-stage chaos to enterprise-grade repeatability, with command of sprints, backlogs, dependencies, and the instinct for which rigor to add when
- Strong product judgment: you understand the product deeply, know the users, and can hold your own in any product conversation
- Interest in AI engineering with LLM-powered systems, including evals, prompting, structured outputs, model behavior, or agent workflows
Technical Fluency
- Technical self-sufficiency: You have operated a production system and carried the responsibility when it broke. You can self-serve data (SQL, notebooks), read a diff and a log and tell us what happened, and hold a technical position with an engineer without deferring.
- You know how to work with engineers: ask the right questions, pin them down for the information you need, and surface the conversation the team hasn’t had yet
- Conceptual grasp of AI/LLM systems, real-time infrastructure, and other complex technology stacks. You know how they fail, how to test them, and what “release-ready” looks like.
- Experience shipping and operating scientific measurement instruments: products where the output is a score, rating, or classification about a person, and where the accuracy and defensibility of that measurement is a release-blocker, not a nice-to-have
Mindset
- Curious: You ask, “what are we missing?” more than you say “we can’t”
- Connector: You see the whole board, and you can’t stand watching good work fall through the cracks because nobody bridged the gap
- Humble: You know what you don’t know, and you pull in the people who do
- Builder: You’d rather move the program forward than be right on paper
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape the future of Narrative Intelligence from the ground up
- Competitive salary and equity package in a high-growth startup
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible work arrangements with remote options
- Professional development budget for conferences and continuing education
- Collaborative, innovative work environment with direct impact on product direction
- Regular team events and company retreats
- Paid time off and company holidays
- 401(k) retirement plan
Equal opportunity
At Savo, we're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives who are excited about our mission. Savo is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
