About the Role
We're seeking an innovative Staff Product Engineer / Product Lead to drive our product strategy and roadmap while leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate feature development. This role offers the opportunity to build products that will fundamentally change how billions of people interact with their data online. You'll manage a lean team while driving product initiatives and feature development that bridge user data sovereignty and control with enterprise innovation needs.
Success criteria include market expansion, customer validation, and velocity of high-quality products and features. This will be a major role as Inrupt continues to grow and scale.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy
• Actively maintain a view of how the market, competition and technologies are evolving, factor this and customer feedback into our product direction
• Prioritize features that accelerate Inrupt Enterprise Solid Server and Data and Agentic Wallet adoption and interoperability for enterprises and government entities • Define and maintain the product roadmap for applications and infrastructure • Create data-driven business cases for new solutions across verticals (healthcare, government, retail, financial services)
AI-Native Product Development
• Drive adoption of AI tooling across Product and Engineering organizations
• Implement AI tools (e.g., Lovable, Bolt) to rapidly prototype applications and features
• Utilize AI copilots (e.g., Claude, Qodo) to accelerate specification documentation, schema development, service integration, and engineering product development
• Leverage automated testing frameworks (e.g., Ellipsis, Browserstack)
• Implement intelligent analytics to track adoption, data sharing patterns, and ecosystem growth metrics
• Build AI assistants to enable developers to build ESS-supported applications faster and create automated onboarding flows for organizations adopting ESS
Enterprise & Government Partnership Support
• Lead product initiatives supporting major deployments
• Implement automated compliance mapping for privacy regulations
• Create AI-assisted migration tools for organizations transitioning from centralized to ESS-based architectures
Team Leadership
• Lead the growth of the Product organization
• Foster collaboration between Inrupt's engineering, research, and business development teams
Required Qualifications
• 5-7+ years of product management or software engineering experience, preferably in data infrastructure, privacy tech, or developer platforms
• Experience with AI/ML tools in product development
• Proven ability to work in mission-driven, technically complex environments • Ability to translate between technical specifications and business value propositions
Preferred Qualifications
• Background in identity management, authentication systems, or data interoperability standards
• Knowledge of enterprise data architecture and integration challenges • Experience using AI tools for technical documentation, API design, or developer experience optimization
What You'll Bring
• Passion for Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a user-centric web and data management • Ability to balance idealistic goals of consumer data ownership with pragmatic enterprise needs
• Strong technical communication skills to engage with both developers and C-suite executives
• Systems thinking to design scalable solutions
• Comfort working at the intersection of policy, technology, and user rights • Excitement about using AI to accelerate the adoption of privacy-preserving technologies
