FullTime
Senior Product Manager
Product
Palo Alto
United States
About Spacial:
At Spacial, we’re redefining how the built world gets designed, engineered, and approved. With decades of combined experience across architecture, engineering, and construction, we’ve felt the industry’s pain points firsthand — slow approvals, endless redlines, and unclear requirements that derail even the best designs.
We built Spacial to fix that. Our AI-powered platform automates structural and MEP engineering, transforming 2D plans into permit-ready, code-compliant drawings in days, not months.
This isn’t just optimization. It’s a new standard built to give the AEC industry speed, clarity, and control from day one. By connecting architects, engineers, builders, and homeowners on a single platform, Spacial eliminates friction, streamlines approvals, and accelerates how ideas become reality.
What You'll Do
Own major product initiatives across the plan to permit lifecycle, including drafting, engineering, compliance, review, submission, and revisions, from discovery through launch
Define and execute product strategy for key areas of the platform, translating company goals into clear roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes
Partner deeply with engineering teams to deliver automation features, human in the loop workflows, quality validation systems, and scalable review and approval loops
Build high trust experiences that balance speed with correctness, ensuring outputs are auditable, explainable, and meet the standards required for permitting
Improve code compliance and permit readiness workflows, including local code validation, municipality requirements, revision iteration, and approvals
Drive customer outcomes and adoption, collaborating with Sales and Customer Success to identify bottlenecks, remove product friction, and improve retention and expansion
Use data and qualitative insights to guide decisions, defining KPIs such as time to permit, approval rate, revision cycles, plan quality, and cost savings
Stay close to the customer, regularly interviewing architects, builders, engineers, and internal stakeholders to validate needs and test solutions
What You Bring
Five or more years of product management experience, with a strong track record of shipping products end to end in fast moving environments
Proven ability to translate complex workflows into simple, scalable product experiences
Experience partnering closely with technical teams, ideally including ML or AI systems, automation, or human in the loop workflows
Strong judgment and intuition for quality, trust, and correctness, especially for products where outputs have meaningful real world consequences
Excellent communication and execution skills, with the ability to align cross functional teams, clarify ambiguity, and drive decisions quickly
Strong customer empathy and an ability to synthesize insights into high leverage product requirements and prioritization
Experience building products for professional users where speed, accuracy, and auditability are critical
Nice to haves
Experience in construction tech, architecture and engineering workflows, CAD or BIM tooling, compliance heavy industries, or B2B workflow software
Familiarity with permitting processes, code validation, or working with regulatory and public sector stakeholders
Understanding of structural engineering methods, architectural drawings and construction plan sets
Experience translating requirements into well defined rulesets for AI and automation
Why Join Us?
Be part of a mission-driven team automating one of the world’s most complex industries
Work directly with experienced founders in a collaborative, fast-moving startup
Competitive compensation and equity in the company — every team member is a shareholder!
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) plan through Guideline
Exceptional career growth opportunities at an early-stage, high-impact startup
Flexible hybrid work setup and a culture that values ownership, creativity, and innovation