Compa is a venture-backed AI startup revolutionizing the future of compensation! We're bringing AI-forward tools and human-centered engineering to make pay competitive and fair, for all. By offering a premier, live compensation data platform that delivers top-tier intelligence to enterprise teams, we enable the world's largest companies to make smart and fair decisions while staying competitive and compliant. In dynamic job markets during the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay competitive!
Our force-multiplying team is powered by live data and thoughtful design, and our products have earned the trust of the world’s largest companies: NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, OpenAI, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, Target, and more.
Come build with us!
The RoleCompa is building AI agents for our customer compensation teams to enable smarter, faster pay decision making with greater confidence.
As a Product Manager, you’ll own key areas of our AI agent platform, turning emerging AI capabilities into products customers rely on every day. You’ll work across product strategy, customer discovery, design, engineering, and AI systems to define how compensation teams interact with software in an agent-first world.
This is a high-autonomy role with meaningful ownership, partnering closely with our Agents Product Lead and executive team to identify opportunities, validate solutions, and ship products that create measurable customer value. Join us!
Success FactorsCustomer Obsessed You are relentlessly curious about how compensation and talent acquisition teams work. You don’t stop at feature requests — you want to understand personas, workflows, incentives, decision-making, and the root causes behind customer pain.
Builder Mindset You learn by making. Whether it’s a prototype, workflow, prompt, mockup, or experiment, you’d rather put something in front of users than debate it endlessly in a document. At Compa we believe if an image is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth at least 10 meetings.
High Agency You don’t wait for perfect clarity. You can take a messy problem, develop a point of view, align stakeholders, and create momentum where others see ambiguity.
What You’ll DoOwn strategy, roadmap, and execution for key areas of Compa’s AI agent platform
Identify customer problems worth solving and translate them into clear product bets
Spend significant time with customers to understand workflows, decisions, and pain points
Prototype concepts early to accelerate learning before investing in implementation
Partner closely with engineering and design to ship iteratively and learn quickly
Define success metrics and use data to guide product decisions
Design agent experiences that balance autonomy, trust, explainability, and control
Stay current on advances in AI and translate meaningful developments into customer value
5+ years of product management experience (early-phase startup engineering or product design is a suitable alternative), including ownership of complex products from concept through launch
Strong customer instincts and a track record of translating ambiguous problems into valuable solutions
Demonstrated ability to use prototyping, experimentation, and AI tools to accelerate product discovery and execution
Demonstrated success building and scaling greenfield products or major new product areas
Excellent communication skills with customers, executives, designers, and engineers
Strong product judgment and experience making thoughtful tradeoffs with limited resources
Experience working closely with engineering teams on technically sophisticated products
Curiosity about AI, agent systems, and emerging technologies, with the ability to separate meaningful opportunities from hype
High-growth startup experience
Experience building AI-powered, data-intensive, or workflow products
Experience designing evaluation frameworks, feedback systems, or human-in-the-loop experiences
Familiarity with LLMs, retrieval systems, agent architectures, or modern AI application development
Experience serving HR, compensation, talent, recruiting, or broader enterprise software markets
Enterprise Claude + ChatGPT (no token-use restrictions)
In-house prototyping deployment platform
Notion
Slack
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Linear
Figma
Compa offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, PTO and parental leave, equity, company offsites, continuous education, commuter benefits and a flexible work environment.
Compa Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Office
625 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States, 02139
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