We are leveraging diffusion technology to develop a new generation of LLMs. Our dLLMs are much faster and more efficient than traditional autoregressive LLMs. Backed by AI Grant and Amplify.
About the role
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and working closely with the founding team, this role provides an opportunity to own and define Inception’s product direction. As the Product Lead, you'll synthesize customer needs, ecosystem trends, and breakthrough AI research into products that transform how millions of users work, create, and solve problems.
What they're looking for
- Own end-to-end product lifecycle from strategy through launch
- Conduct user research and analyze performance metrics specific to AI model behaviors and map these onto emerging use cases
- Lead cross‑functional execution across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Go-to-Market teams
- Help design evaluation systems and live benchmarks to track and improve speed and quality in target use cases
- Set performance targets that connect model capabilities to user needs
- Partner with early customers to prove value in target use cases and convert pilots into repeatable product bets
More about this role
Inception creates the world’s fastest, most efficient AI models. Our Mercury model is the world’s fastest reasoning LLM and first commercially available diffusion LLM, delivering 5x greater speed and efficiency than today’s LLMs, with best-in-class quality.
We are the AI researchers and engineers behind such breakthrough AI technologies as diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO.
The Role
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and working closely with the founding team, this role provides an opportunity to own and define Inception’s product direction. As the Product Lead, you'll synthesize customer needs, ecosystem trends, and breakthrough AI research into products that transform how millions of users work, create, and solve problems.
This role requires a leader who’s comfortable driving innovation in uncharted territory, where the very nature of what's possible with AI is being redefined every day.
The ideal candidate is a data‑driven, customer‑centric product builder who operates comfortably at the intersection of advanced AI research and pragmatic product delivery. They have shipped 0→1 products, scaled 1→N, and are credible with highly technical teams. They bring strong...
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