Lead Product Manager
Boston, MA
Product & Design /
Full-time /
Remote
Who we are:
Alignable is the largest online network of small business owners, with over 9 million members across North America who discover that every relationship holds possibility. Our mission is to empower small businesses by helping them build trusted relationships and grow through referrals, connections, and community.
We don't just connect business owners—we help them unlock the hidden potential in their networks by showing them who knows the people they want to meet. When a bakery owner realizes their accountant knows three potential catering clients, or when a consultant discovers their neighbor can connect them to their dream customer—that's Alignable working.
Here's how it works:
Imagine you're a small business owner trying to find new customers. You know people, and they know people, but you can't see those second and third-degree connections that could change everything. Our platform reveals those hidden pathways—showing you exactly who in your network knows the people you want to meet. It's like having a map of all the business relationships around you that were previously invisible.
What makes us different:
Unlike other networking platforms that feel forced or transactional, Alignable focuses on authentic relationship-building. We've created a space where small business owners naturally help each other grow through genuine connections, referrals, and shared expertise. It's networking that actually works because it's built on trust and mutual success.
Alignable by the numbers:
9+ million small business owners across North America trust our platform
30,000+ local communities where meaningful business relationships flourish
20,000+ new members join us every week to unlock their network potential
Series C and profitable—we're scaling rapidly while building sustainably
What you will be doing:
We are looking for a seasoned Product Manager with deep product-led growth (PLG) experience to drive member-focused thinking across an entire product pillar. This isn't just any PM role—we need someone who has lived and breathed the PLG playbook, understands consumer-grade UX expectations, and knows how to build products that activate and retain users at scale.
As Alignable's Lead Product Manager (PLG-Focused), you'll be the product lead on a cross-functional squad that includes UX, Engineering, and a dedicated Growth Marketer who will work as your partner to achieve shared funnel goals. This collaborative model is critical to our success—you'll own the product experience while your Growth Marketing partner owns the messaging and lifecycle campaigns, but you'll share the same success metrics and work as one unified team.
You will help us build tech-enabled products that create best-in-class social referral and networking experiences for small businesses, with a particular focus on driving 40-day retention of paid users. To do this well, you'll need proven experience building modern, engaging experiences in PLG environments where user activation, adoption, and retention drive business growth.
What success looks like:
- Core Success Metric: 40-day retention of paid users - this is your north star.
- You will own product experiences that drive retention and engagement. Starting with strategic focus areas, you will collaborate with your Growth Marketing partner to select target OKRs and work with Engineering, Design, and Growth Marketing to identify and prioritize initiatives that improve long-term user value and stickiness.
- You will work in a true product-led growth model, generating and testing hypotheses about user behavior, balancing qualitative and quantitative data with your product intuition. You'll deliver value quickly through iterative releases, track impact on both activation and retention metrics, and adjust based on what you learn about user engagement patterns.
- You will excel at cross-functional collaboration with Growth Marketing. Unlike traditional PM roles, you'll work hand-in-hand with a dedicated Growth Marketer on shared funnel optimization, conversion experiences, and retention strategies. Success means seamless collaboration where product and marketing feel like one integrated experience to users.
- You will have significant impact and support. Our culture is dynamic, collaborative, and offers tremendous opportunities to grow your career. You'll work directly with experienced founders, receive mentoring from seasoned product professionals, and have the opportunity to grow your PLG expertise and responsibility.
What you will bring:
- 5+ years of Product Management experience with significant PLG company experience—you've built products where user experience drives growth, activation, and retention.
- Consumer-grade UX mindset: Deep understanding of how to create engaging, intuitive experiences that users love, even in B2B contexts.
- Proven track record with high-volume user bases: Experience managing products with thousands of weekly new users and understanding how to optimize experiences at scale.
- Exceptional at Product-Marketing collaboration: Demonstrated success working closely with Growth Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, or similar functions on shared metrics and initiatives.
- Funnel expertise: Understanding of how product decisions impact conversion, activation, and retention across the entire user journey.
- Conflict resolution and alignment skills: Ability to navigate competing priorities and build consensus across product, marketing, and engineering teams.
- An entrepreneurial spirit and eagerness to try new things and be innovative.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers.
- Customer obsession: You crave talking to customers to understand their challenges and bring their voice into your decisions.
- Comfortable manipulating and analyzing data to make informed product decisions, particularly around user behavior and retention.
- Empathy for small business owners: Understanding of and compassion for the struggles of owning a small business.
- A bias for action, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude, and deep sense of personal ownership.
- Proven track record managing stakeholders and competing priorities while maintaining team focus on key metrics.
Why choose Alignable: Your growth, Our mission
- Impact & Mission: Lead product strategy for a mission-driven company focused on helping small businesses thrive, with the opportunity to own critical user experiences at a moment of high growth.
- PLG Environment: Work in a true product-led growth environment where your product decisions directly impact business metrics, collaborating closely with Growth Marketing in a model designed for shared success.
- Team & Growth: Collaborate with experienced founders and a team with startup experience from companies like Invisalign, Constant Contact, and Vistaprint. Grow your PLG expertise alongside the business.
We offer:
- Smart, supportive co-workers
- Competitive compensation + equity
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited vacations (with required 2-week consecutive break annually)
- Remote-first environment (US east coast working hours)
- Paid Parental leave
- Professional Development Program
- 401(k)
Our culture in action:
- 🎉 Enjoy the Journey: We're passionate about our mission but don't take ourselves too seriously. We celebrate customers, teammates, and key moments.
- 🤝 Be Stronger Together: We combine strengths, build trusted relationships, and treat everyone as partners. No egos welcome.
- 🌈 Be Different Together: We create space for everyone to show up as their truest selves and seek diverse perspectives.
- 👑 Act Like an Owner: We proactively act on behalf of the entire company and customers, not just ourselves. No passing the buck.
- 🎯 Change the Game: We start with first principles, assume nothing is impossible, and go after 10x outcomes relentlessly.
- 📈 Adapt & Evolve: We accept we won't be right every time and create an environment where people feel safe to admit failure and lean into learning.
- 🧠 Exercise Excellent Judgment: We turn knowledge into understanding based on equal parts data and intuition.
- ⚡ Profound Bias for Action: Speed matters. We value calculated risk-taking while avoiding one-way doors.
- ❤️ Be Customer Obsessed: We work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust in everything we decide to work on and how we do it.
Alignable is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all applicants from every background and life experience without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
