Key Skills
Job Description
What you'll do Product Vision & Strategy: Own Upriver’s product direction. Define and evolve the roadmap to build the category-defining Autonomous Data Engineer, working closely with the founders. Customer & Market Insight: Deeply understand data engineers, platform teams, and modern data stacks. Translate real-world pain into product opportunities. Execution & Delivery: Partner with engineering and design to ship high-impact features quickly, balancing speed with quality. Cross-functional Leadership: Work closely with founders, go-to-market, and customers to ensure tight feedback loops between product, sales, and user needs. Team Building: Hire and lead a world-class product team as the company scales. Requirements Proven experience leading product organization in a high-growth startup, ideally in data infrastructure, developer tools, or AI. Strong technical depth and intuition- comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding technical workflows. Track record of building and shipping complex, technical products from 0→1 and beyond. Customer-obsessed, with the ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear product direction. Entrepreneurial mindset- thrives in fast-moving, early-stage environments. On-site position in our TLV office
Core Responsibilities
Own the product direction and roadmap for the Autonomous Data Engineer category while working closely with founders. Lead the product team and collaborate with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to ship high-impact features.
Requirements
Proven experience leading product organizations in high-growth startups, specifically within data infrastructure, AI, or developer tools. Requires strong technical depth and a track record of building complex technical products from the ground up.
About Upriver
Industry: Software Development
Company size: 11-50 employees
Upriver | AI Data Engineering - around the clock. Data engineering is breaking under its own complexity. What used to be a few pipelines is now an ecosystem - warehouses, orchestrators, transformation layers, and code, all tightly connected and constantly changing. The work that should be about building and shaping data is buried under investigation, tracing, and fixing. Upriver changes that. Upriver is the AI Data Engineering Platform. It connects to your warehouse, orchestrator, and code, builds a living understanding of how everything works, and handles the full task across data engineering - resolving incidents, building new data products, migrating systems, and maintaining what already exists. The engineer stays in control. The platform handles the work. Work that used to take days gets done in minutes. New engineers ramp in days, not months. Knowledge that used to live in people’s heads becomes permanent. Stop investigating. Start architecting. Go Upriver.