Parasail
Head of Platform Product
$225-275K base salary + equity•SF Bay Area
Company
The Opportunity
About Us
Parasail is building the Twilio of AI infrastructure — virtualizing 25+ GPU providers worldwide into one fast, intuitive developer platform.
Most companies start with OpenAI or Anthropic. As they scale, they need custom endpoints, fine-tuning, and specific latency targets. Other providers mean weeks talking to sales and months of configuration. Parasail spins up a custom endpoint in a single day and sells usage by the token. 80B+ tokens served daily across 15+ countries. 30x cheaper than legacy clouds.
The platform supports multiple deployment modes: Serverless (pay per token), Dedicated Serverless (guaranteed throughput with isolated pools), Dedicated (fully reserved GPUs), and Batch (80-90% cheaper than real time). Use cases span text LLMs, voice agents, image/video understanding, and agentic workflows.
Highlights
Rocketship Growth
$0 to $4.5M ARR in 8 months. Targeting $25M by end of 2026. 80B+ tokens served daily. Team growing from 20 to 40 people this year.
Trusted by Weights & Biases and Memri
W&B CTO Shawn Lewis: "Parasail moved at lightning speed to get us set up with massive DeepSeek capacity and top-shelf throughput. They will give you the latest and greatest faster than anyone else."
Winning Formula
30x cheaper than legacy clouds. Win every head to head against bigger competitors (Fireworks, Baseten) and haven't lost a single customer. Speed is the superpower: competitors take 6 weeks to set up customers and Parasail does it during the first call.
Top Investors
$30M Series A. Steve Jang (board member at Perplexity and FAL, prominent AI investor) is on the board. Other investors: Kindred Ventures, Touring Capital (former MD of MSFT/SoftBank Vision Fund), Basis Set, Threshold Ventures, Samsung.
Founder Fit
CEO Mike Henry was CPO at Groq and founder/CEO of Mythic ($165M raised, founded 2012). Deep AI infrastructure experience since before the current wave.
Team
Co-Founder & Board Member
Previously co-founder/CEO of Swift Navigation ($250M raised, autonomous vehicles).
Candidate
Is This You?
You're a structured, organized product leader who thrives building platform products for developers. You've worked at modern developer infrastructure companies (think Temporal, MongoDB, Sumo Logic) and understand product led growth. You have strong opinions, can advocate for your point of view, and bring discipline to ambiguity. You're hands on despite being a senior product leader.
Your Mission
Own the platform and developer experience. Build the comprehensive self serve product that wins against larger competitors. Create new product lines like Dedicated Serverless that play to Parasail's core strengths of speed and simplicity. Shape how AI teams deploy, scale, and manage inference workloads.
What you'll get to do
- Own the Developer Platform: Everything customers see when they log in. Endpoints, Observability, Metrics, Pricing and more. The nuts and bolts that need to be easy, intuitive, and work great.
- Own the Roadmap: Mike sketches the picture, you turn it into a painting. Take strategic direction and fill in all the details to make it reality.
- Drive Innovation: Push forward Parasail's innovative differentiation (speed, simplicity, self service) while incorporating customer/user feedback responsively. Balance both to carve out market space. Identify, advocate for, get the team excited about, and ship new product lines.
- Shape the Product Org: This is the first of three PM hires. Platform & Developer Experience now, then Performance, then Application Verticals. Help define how product management works at Parasail as the team scales.
What we're looking for
- 5+ Years PM Experience: In technical domains, ideally developer tools or infrastructure.
- Product Vision & Strategy: Can create something from thin air and advocate for it. Has opinions and can sell them internally. Can envision new products, not just execute what customers tell you to build.
- Developer Platform Expertise: Deep experience building developer platforms or infrastructure products. Understanding of developer experience, platform product thinking, API design, and self service experiences. Modern dev infrastructure, not legacy enterprise software.
- AI/Infrastructure Experience: Experience with AI platform products (preferred) or PaaS/infrastructure as a service background. Can walk the walk and talk the talk on AI.
- Early Stage Experience: Comfortable at startups without large support structures. Can wear multiple hats and operate without dedicated designer, prototyper, etc. for every task.
- Hands On: You're close to the product. Writing specs, working with engineers, making product decisions daily.
- Modern Dev Infrastructure Background: Experience selling developer tools to fast growing startups. Product led growth motion, not enterprise solution sales.
- Product Rigor: You're structured, organized, methodical, and work well in systems. You bring discipline and follow through to a fast moving environment.
Bonus Points
- Developer Evangelist Background: Very close to developer experience and product. Strong signal of right mindset.
- Technical Fluency: Can vibe code and prototype quickly. Uses AI tools in the PM workflow. Deep familiarity with the developer tools landscape.
Interview
What to Expect
Here is a preview of what you can expect:
Intro Call
Hiring Manager Screen
Technical Screen
On Site
- Live Exercise: 1 hour to write a product one pager.
- Engineering: Discussions with engineering team on collaboration and technical depth.
- Leadership: Interview with co-founder.
- Culture: Conversation on team fit and working style.
Details
The Fine Print
- Compensation: $225-275K base + equity
- Reporting: Mike Henry (CEO)
- Location: Bay Area required (3 days / week in San Mateo office)
- Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada for any employer. Visa sponsorship or transfer (e.g., H-1B) is not available.
Next Steps
Interested?
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