Product Owner

We’re partnering exclusively with a fast-growing deep-tech startup building what GitHub became for software, but for quantum computing.

Founded in late 2023 and already backed by a specialist quantum investor, the company has grown to 3,000 users and is scaling its Paris HQ team from 9 to 20 over the next 12–18 months. Their platform gives developers a unified Python-based workspace to build, share, and run quantum solutions across any hardware provider, wrapped in a community layer where algorithms, datasets, and tools are published, reused, and monetised.

This is a rare first-PM role: you will define the product cadence, rituals, and roadmap for the next 18 months and shape the DNA of a platform that sits at the centre of a once-in-a-generation technology shift

You'll be a strong match if you bring:

• 3–7 years of product management experience, including 2+ years in developer tools, platform products, or technical SaaS.
• Experience building for a community or open-source ecosystem (this is essential, not optional).
• A technical background, CS degree, prior engineering role, or the ability to read code and discuss architecture.
• Comfort with agile cadence, backlog management, and data-informed decision-making.
• Excellent written communication in English.

As the successful Product Owner, you will be responsible for the: 

• Product roadmap & backlog: Turn strategy, user needs, and community signals into clear shipping priorities.
• Specs & user stories: Provide engineering with crisp, unambiguous requirements.
• Community-centric product design: Incentives, discoverability, reputation systems, feedback loops, designing for creators, not just consumers.
• Product rituals: Sprint planning, reviews, retros, and the metrics that matter (engagement, adoption, execution success, community health).
• Direct user contact: Interviews, usage analysis, and feedback collection, not just dashboards.
• Cross-functional leadership: Engineering is your closest partner; the community is your north star.

This is one of those rare early-stage roles where you shape the product and the company’s trajectory.  You work on real engineering challenges with real technical depth.  You join a well-funded team with a credible path to Series A, and you receive meaningful ESOP at a stage where upside is real.

This role will not be right for Enterprise PMs who’ve never built for a community of creators, project managers without product judgment, or candidates unable to hold their own in technical conversations with senior engineers.

If you are keen to learn more and for a confidential conversation, send your CV across immediately.