Location: New York City
In-office: 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Reports to: Senior Product Manager
Axial is the trusted online M&A platform connecting buyers and sellers of $5M-$100M American privately held companies. Trusted by over 4,500 professional acquirers and 3,000 M&A advisors, we have built a pioneering digital transaction platform that radically improves the speed, confidentiality, and success by which private companies achieve successful exits.
Axial is a founder-led, profitable company based in New York City with a hybrid office culture. We’ve been profitable since 2020 and are the category leader in our market. We are long-term oriented, values-driven, and focused on building a lasting company committed to member trust, operational excellence, and profitable long-term growth.
In 2025, over 12,500 private companies pursued an exit via the platform, leading to over 3,000,000 platform connections, and over $1B in annual transaction volume (Closed Transactions).
As a Product Manager at Axial, you’ll work closely with a Senior Product Manager and cross-functional partners to help build, improve, and scale meaningful product experiences.
This role is designed for someone early in their career who is curious, motivated, and eager to learn how great products are built. You’ll be given real responsibility, trusted to work independently, and supported through close mentorship in an environment built on trust, autonomy, and collaboration.
If you enjoy digging into ambiguous problems, learning new tools quickly, and thinking deeply about users and data, this role is for you.
Key ResponsibilitiesLearn the Product, Users, and Market
- Develop a strong understanding of Axial’s platform, users, and business model.
- Study user behavior through data analysis, user feedback, and competitive research.
- Ramp quickly on new problem spaces through focused, independent learning.
Product Discovery & Delivery
- Help research, shape, and evaluate new product ideas.
- Write clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Design to deliver high-quality features.
Be Data-Informed
- Use SQL, analytics tools, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows to answer product questions.
- Proactively identify risks, gaps, or unclear assumptions in data, requirements, or proposed solutions.
- Communicate findings clearly and thoughtfully.
Required
- 0–3 years of experience in product, analytics, consulting, engineering, operations, or a similarly analytical role.
- Strong curiosity and problem-solving instincts.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High attention to detail and pride in quality work.
- Comfort working independently in ambiguous environments.
- Demonstrated work ethic and follow-through.
- Thoughtful use of modern tools (including AI and data tools), paired with strong judgment, attention to detail, and validation of work.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to B2B SaaS, marketplaces, fintech, or finance.
- Experience with SQL, data analysis, or experimentation.
- Interest in M&A, private markets, or complex workflows.
At Axial, you will also enjoy:
- Working with a great team of smart, motivated people
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid for by Axial at nearly 100%
- 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid Parental Leave Policy
- Monthly Health & Wellness stipend
- Pre-tax commuter program
- Obsess Over Member Trust: Your daily choices reflect your awareness that we facilitate vital life-altering transactions. You take this responsibility seriously and it’s top of mind.
- Expect and Deliver Excellence: You demonstrate consistency so that your colleagues feel confident partnering and relying on you. You demonstrate a personal commitment to continuous improvement.
- Communication Matters: You are concise and articulate in your communication, external or internal. You listen well and genuinely.
- Invent and Simplify: You are open-minded, looking for great new ideas that can elevate and even transform the member experience. You find novel ways to simplify complex status quos.
- Be an Owner: You think about the long-term effects of your decisions. You invest real time in building relationships with your colleagues.
- Humility: We seek truth, not credit, and learn from anyone.
- Positivity: We bring energy, optimism, and belief, even when it is hard.
- Grit: We show up, follow through, and push beyond the first draft.
- Discernment: We choose wisely, prioritize sharply, and ask better questions.
- Accountability: We take full responsibility for our work and results.
Top Skills
What We Do
Axial (axial.net) operates the largest marketplace on the internet for buying, selling, and financing American small businesses (businesses with $5M-$100M in revenues).
Over 20,000 professional investors, M&A advisors and CEOs use Axial's tools, data, and marketplace to source, manage and execute small business M&A transactions. Axial members have closed over 2,500 deals since 2010, amounting to more than $25 Billion in closed transaction volume.
Market Overview
At the core of the US economy are "lower middle market" businesses - businesses generating $5M to $100M in revenue. In the US alone, there are over 350,000 companies in this size range. These small businesses are neither large enough to go public, nor are they able to attract great advice from national or global investment banks. In addition, the wholesale absence of reliable data on transactions and market participants has made this the most broken underperforming segment of private capital markets.
Axial is transforming the status quo in this capital market, providing companies, their trusted advisors, and their capital partners with high quality purpose-built tools, unique data, and marketplace infrastructure.
Below are the values we subscribe to as a company:
-- Obsess Over Member Trust: Your daily choices reflect your awareness that we facilitate vital life-altering transactions. You take this responsibility seriously and it’s top of mind.
-- Expect and Deliver Excellence: You demonstrate consistency so that your colleagues feel confident partnering and relying on you. You demonstrate a personal commitment to continuous improvement.
-- Communication Matters: You are concise and articulate in your communication, external or internal. You listen well and genuinely.
-- Invent and Simplify: You are open-minded, looking for great new ideas that can elevate and even transform the member experience. You find novel ways to simplify complex status quos.
-- Be an Owner: You think about the long-term effects of your decisions. You invest real time in building relationships with your colleagues.
Why Work With Us
We are a small and tight-knit team (currently 25 employees), and you’ll have the opportunity to have a direct impact on the the company.
At Axial you will also enjoy:
-- Robust medical, dental and vision insurance, paid for by Axial
-- 401k program
-- Unlimited vacation
-- Health & Wellness reimbursement program
-- Pre-tax commuter program
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