Founding Product Manager - New Venture

Who We Are

Babylist is the leading registry, e-commerce, and content platform for growing families. More than 9 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, trusted guidance, and expert product recommendations for new parents and the people who love them. What began as a universal registry has grown into a full ecosystem for new parents, including the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, and a flagship showroom in Los Angeles. Hundreds of brands in baby and beyond partner with Babylist to engage meaningfully with families during one of life’s most important transitions. With over $1 billion in annual GMV, and more than $500 million in 2024 revenue, Babylist is reshaping the $320 billion baby product industry. We’re helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. As we build the generational brand in baby, our mission remains simple: to connect growing families with everything they need to thrive.To learn more, visit www.babylist.com.

Our Ways of Working

This role requires working co-located with your innovation team to enable rapid collaboration and iteration. Must be based in Boston, Massachusetts.

What the Role Is

Babylist is seeking an entrepreneurial, 0-to-1 Product Manager to lead our newest venture—a standalone app that helps families stay connected for all the moments that matter. You'll be the founding product leader building experiences that amplify the natural love and excitement around growing families, from first smiles to first birthdays and beyond. This isn't just product management—it's product entrepreneurship. You'll work with a small, co-located team operating autonomously outside of Babylist's current processes and tech stack. In a 9-month sprint, you'll design and rapidly prototype an entirely new product from concept to validated product vision and direction. You'll be the visionary leader, execution force, and founding CEO of this new "seed stage" business within Babylist. You'll build across web and mobile platforms, creating experiences that bring families closer together through sharing, connection, and meaningful interactions around life's biggest moments. This is hands-on work that demands both strategic vision and execution speed, with the autonomy to explore bold ideas while staying laser-focused on what families actually need.

Who You Are

• You have deep product expertise with 7+ years in product management, owning and scaling mobile-first consumer products from 0-to-1; thrives in ambiguity and brings a strong track record across social, messaging, ecommerce, gifting, or family domains.
• You thrive in ambiguity and act with urgency. You don’t wait for permission to solve problems, whatever form they take
• You obsess over your users. You seek to understand not just what they do, but why—and what they wish they could do. You’ve built experiences that users love and stick with, especially ones tied to emotion, identity, or everyday habits
• You communicate with conviction, able to lead from the front driven by your strong sense of product vision
• You are an exceptional team leader and will be the anchor hire for a new team co-located near you.  You will be responsible for setting team norms and processes to ensure success of the entire team.  You are excited to see them every day and thrive in synchronous work with a close-knit team
• You have an ability to balance your big ideas with small execution, you don’t build more than you need at this moment and understand when scalability is valuable and when it is not

How You Will Make An Impact

• Lead Product Vision & Strategy - You will serve as the visionary leader for this new product – steering the ship with strong opinions, loosely held.  You will define and evolve the product vision, grounded in deep customer understanding and big ideas about redefining family connection. You will own what we’re delivering, to whom, and why. 
• Own Execution with Entrepreneurial Energy - You will own the product roadmap and OKRs, ruthlessly prioritizing to validate ideas, ship early iterations, and find product market fit.  You will drive cross-functional collaboration across your standalone team (design, engineering, and ops) to maximize the speed to learning. Personally, you move easily between the strategic and the tactical: from defining success metrics to QA’ing a release.
• Champion the Voice of the Customer - You obsess over the real experiences of modern families—building feedback loops that go beyond NPS or metrics, you’ll know how people feel about what we’re building, and why it matters. You will validate concepts through qualitative research, user immersion, and rapid prototyping, distilling insights into clear product direction and driving a culture of learning and fast iteration within the team.
• Drive Business Impact to Unlock Additional Investment - You will deliver a validated product hypothesis and direction within 9 months to unlock additional “funding” from Babylist to scale to Product Market Fit. In doing this, you will think beyond features—defining success in terms of customer love, retention, and monetizable behaviors (including gifting).

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

Our Culture

• We work with focus and intention, then step away to recharge
• We believe in exceptional management and invest in tools and opportunities to connect with colleagues
• We build products that positively impact millions of people's lives
• AI is intentionally embedded in how we work, create, and scale—supporting innovation and impact

Growth & Development

• Competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We're committed to career progression and performance-based advancement

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity and bonus opportunities
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts
• Generous paid parental leave and PTO
• Remote work stipend to set up your office
• Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

About Compensation

We use a market-based approach to compensation. The starting salary range for this role is:

$209,800 to $265,400

Your starting salary will be based on your location, experience, and qualifications, with increases over time tied to performance, role growth, and internal pay equity.

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During the interview process, we're evaluating your individual problem-solving skills, creativity, and approach to challenges. While AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor are part of your daily toolkit once you join Babylist, all interviews, assessments, and take-home assignments must be completed independently. 

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Any indication of third-party assistance or AI-generated responses will result in immediate disqualification. We may also verify educational credentials through third-party sources—providing false or misleading information will result in removal from consideration.

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