# Principal Product Manager, Search & Contract Understanding at Ironclad

- Company: Ironclad
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, Sequoia and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.ironcladapp.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $252K to $315K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ironcladhq/d736da90-3f2e-499b-84bc-d690a73d63b1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ironclad-principal-product-manager-search-and-contract-understanding/

## About the role

This is one of the most consequential product roles at Ironclad. You'll set the multi-year direction for two deeply connected halves of our AI platform, split roughly evenly: Search and Contract Understanding. On the search side, you own how customers and agents find and retrieve the right knowledge across their entire contract repository. On the understanding side, you own the extraction and document understanding systems that turn contracts into accurate, structured, actionable knowledge.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of product management experience of a technically complex, business-critical product area with company-level impact
- Deep experience shipping production search or information retrieval products, and production AI/ML, developer platform, or data infrastructure products
- Practical fluency with retrieval and ranking, LLM systems, extraction, APIs, data models, evaluation methods, latency, and cost
- Exceptional quantitative judgment, including the ability to reason about search relevance and recall, and to build offline benchmark performance from production traces
- Platform instincts at scale: you solve immediate needs while extracting durable, shared capabilities that many teams depend on
- A history of owning customer-facing outcomes and deep infrastructure in the same mandate

Tags: Engineering, Product & Design