Product Lead
Somethings
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Somethings is building the first social wellness platform for teens — a place where a teen can form a real relationship with a mentor who gets them, sticks with them, and helps them get better.
25 Million teens in the U.S. are struggling with their mental health. Every one of the thousands of teens who download Somethings is struggling. Our job is to make sure they don’t just show up — they stay, connect with real humans who care deeply about them, and get the support that they need to thrive.
We’re backed by General Catalyst and world-class healthcare + consumer investors, and we’re growing like crazy — in 2025 we grew 1100%, raised our $15M Series A, and are on track to 5x in 2026.
If you want to be a part of the generationally defining company in mental health, welcome home.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a Product Lead to guide Somethings through our next phase of rapid scaling and help define the core experiences that teens and mentors use every day.
This is a high-agency, high-responsibility role for a senior product leader who is hands-on, execution-focused, and deeply motivated by building products that matter.
The work is high ownership, high craft, and high stakes:
You will directly shape the product that helps struggling teens stay, connect, and genuinely get better.
What You’ll Do
Here you won’t just “run a roadmap,” you’ll take ownership of the missions that define our next two years:
1. Set and drive the product vision
Define and communicate a clear multi-quarter product strategy
Make hard prioritization calls with incomplete or evolving information
Align design, engineering, growth, and clinical teams around what matters most
Create focus in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity environment
2. Make teen × mentor experiences magical
Ensure core flows are intuitive, human, and emotionally grounded
Raise the quality bar on product craft, usability, and consistency
Champion user research to ensure every feature is grounded in real teen needs
3. Drive execution and clarity
Ensure every team member knows what matters now
Keep the roadmap far enough ahead to unblock engineering and design
Translate strategy into crisp, testable product requirements
Clarify scope, success metrics, and decision ownership
Reduce friction, rework, and ambiguity across teams
4. Scale the product organization
Own the product roadmap end-to-end
Build and develop a high-performing design and product function
Establish rituals, processes, and operating cadences across teams
Help grow us from one team to three product × engineering teams by the end of 2026
You will operate at multiple altitudes — vision, execution, and hands-on product work — often in the same day.
Who You Are
You are an experienced senior product leader who has built and scaled at early-stage startups across multiple product teams.
You have led and managed multiple product teams through ambiguity, rapid iteration, and fast growth.
You’re not looking to sit at 30,000 feet. You like to get your hands dirty.
You are as comfortable in strategy discussions as you are in Figma comments
You care deeply about users and bring strong design sensibility and product taste
You are a builder — you remove blockers, get into the details, and ship
You can translate messy user needs into clear product direction
You thrive in high ownership environments with ambitious expectations and mission intensity
You wake up wanting to ship features that materially improve the lives of teenagers.
Minimum Qualifications
7+ years of product management experience
Senior product management experience, including leadership roles
Experience at an early-stage startup building or scaling product teams
Proven track record developing or managing product designers
Deep experience with user research and insight-driven product development
Clear evidence of shipping high-quality consumer or health-related products
Bonus Points
Experience in healthcare, mental health, telehealth, or youth platforms
Background working in regulated or compliance-heavy environments
Design background or equivalent product taste
Technical fluency, partnering closely with engineering
Familiarity with tools like Figma, Notion, and modern product/analytics stacks
How We Work
We’re building a culture that blends high performance, deep belonging, and radical clarity:
We care about outcomes, not theatrics
We move quickly and learn constantly
We speak the truth early
We protect focus
We hold a high bar for craft and quality
We’re small, intense, collaborative, and mission-driven
We care about each other and the teens we serve
The Head of Product will be a central culture leader — creating alignment, building bridges across product, design, engineering, clinical, and operations, and helping multiple teams ship great work in concert.
What We Offer
💰 The annual salary range for this position is $160,000 - $210,000.
📈 Significant equity compensation, reflecting your foundational role and impact.
🏥 Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
🎯 Significant work ownership and autonomy
🎉 Unlimited days off.
🔑Job level and actual compensation will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and relevant prior experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified
⚠️ Important Application Instructions
To be considered for this role, you must complete the following submission step:
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Record a Loom video (8–10 minutes) of yourself answering the questions listed below.
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Application Questions
Introduce yourself
Talk to us about your experience with product leadership/product management. It’s okay to brag!
What has been the product project that you’re most proud of working on and why?
Walk us through a specific time when you had to make a difficult prioritization decision between multiple competing product initiatives. What framework did you use to decide? What did you say no to, and what was the outcome?
Describe your approach to keeping engineering and design teams unblocked and moving quickly. Give us a concrete example of when ambiguity or unclear direction slowed your teams, and walk us through the specific actions you took to create clarity and momentum.
Why do you want this job?
What are you best at professionally?
What do you not like doing professionally?
What are you career ambitions?
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Equal Opportunity Statement
At Somethings, we're committed to building a workplace where diversity is not just welcomed, it's celebrated. We believe that innovation thrives on teams where everyone can be their authentic selves, bringing unique perspectives and backgrounds to the table. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Our commitment to inclusivity is woven into the fabric of our corporate culture, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to succeed, learn, and grow with us.
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