Product Manager

The multi-trillion dollar insurance industry still relies on phone calls, paper forms, and outdated systems that are slow, error-prone, and easy to fake.

That’s where Axle comes in. We bridge the gap between insurance and other industries through an AI Native Clearinghouse for insurance, enabling our clients to make business decisions in seconds instead of hours while allowing consumers to unlock their most underutilized financial asset - insurance.

Why you should consider joining

• Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and top brands like Avis, Rocket Mortgage, and Experian - with more joining every month.

• Revenue growing 35% QoQ to mid-7-figures ARR, with best in class retention and growth continuing to accelerate.

• Join a tight-knit team where everyone drives real impact - top-tier customer and revenue metrics with half the team size of typical startups.

• Work on genuinely hard, unsolved problems at the intersection of agentic AI, complex data structuring, and financial risk.

• Competitive compensation and equity, full benefits, unlimited time-off, and an annual team offsite.

We're a lean team, and our customer base is growing too fast for us to keep up. We're looking for talented team members to join our early team and execute on an ambitious roadmap.

What You’ll Do

As a Product Manager at Axle, you’ll drive product definition for Axle's agentic platform and interfaces. You take what our GTM teams, including Forward Deployed Product counterparts, learn from the field, assess priority based on opportunity potential and technical complexity, and then scope and launch projects that continue to improve Axle's reliability, accuracy, and ease of use across market segments and insurance lines.

Guide the Roadmap

• Translate client feedback into clearly scoped product requirements that Engineering can execute against without ambiguity.

• Partner with Engineering to determine complexity, dependencies, milestones, and constraints.

• Work directly with Axle's leadership to prioritize projects into the product roadmap based on opportunity size and overall business strategy.

• Define and iterate on Axle's product vision, principles, and success metrics, e.g., conversion, coverage, retention, etc., across its offerings.

Build the Product Foundation

• Help establish Axle’s product management function - building repeatable processes, tooling, and frameworks as the company scales.

• Communicate product capabilities to customers and partners across various channels.

• Maintain and evolve Axle’s product documentation and guides for both internal teams and external developers.

• Grow into a trusted internal authority on Axle’s product capabilities, limitations, and roadmap - the person Sales, CS, and Engineering all rely on to understand what’s possible.
  

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Technical Product Management, Engineering Lead, or other product or technical lead roles.

• Strong technical fluency: solid understanding of AI agents, RESTful APIs, webhooks, and system integrations. You don’t need to write production code, but you need to speak confidently with engineers and clients about how things work under the hood.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives and tradeoffs for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

• A track record of making smart, defensible prioritization decisions that balance competing stakeholder needs, business impact, and technical feasibility.

• Sharp product intuition — you can walk out of a client design session and immediately know what matters, what doesn’t, and what needs to be built.

• Founder mindset: simplify, move fast, and embrace feedback. You thrive in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and enjoy building 0→1 products.

• An insatiable curiosity - always asking why, digging deep into how things work, and looking for the non-obvious solution.

• A humble, collaborative attitude and the willingness to do whatever it takes to move the product and the company forward.

What would be even better

• Experience at a fintech, infrastructure, or API-first company — especially in insurance, automotive, lending, or related industries.

• Working knowledge of SQL or a scripting language (Node/JavaScript, Python) — enough to query data and build lightweight tools to support your own work.

• Familiarity with AI in your day-to-day product work — prototyping, research, analysis — or with agentic AI workflows and LLM-powered products.

• Previous experience at an early-stage startup where you’ve had to build product process from zero.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Axle

Axle is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We believe in actively building a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions to better allow our employees, products, and community to thrive.

Axle is the AI-native clearinghouse for property and casualty insurance. Our infrastructure and AI agents automate complex insurance workflows for third parties including verification, monitoring, and policy updates. Read more about our vision: https://www.axle.insure/blog/announcing-our-17-5m-series-a-led-by-base10

We are backed by leading investors including Base10, Y Combinator, and Gradient Ventures (Google's AI fund) and angels from companies like Plaid and Cox Automotive.

Our team is in-person 4 days a week in our Flatiron/NoMad office in NYC and our West Midtown office in Atlanta.