Product Development Team Lead

About the role

We’re looking for a Product Development Lead who combines product ownership, delivery management, and hands-on technical leadership. You’ll help shape our roadmap, guide engineering decisions, and ensure our team builds the right things the right way. Option to bring in up to two new hires immediatly into your team

🌕 About Yolk

Yolk is a VC-backed startup (Investors of Anthropic, Groq, Tentsornet) on a bold mission: To build the best sales departments in the world with elite AI coaching available to every team. Our AI sales coach helps revenue teams catch deal-killing mistakes before they hit your forecast—sharpening discovery, objection handling, negotiation, and more. We’re not just replacing traditional corporate training; we’re lifting win rates, shortening ramp, and unlocking millions in new revenue. Being the #1 AI coach is big. That’s where you come in.

What You’ll Do

• Drive product delivery — translate high-level goals into actionable plans, milestones, and releases.
• Provide technical leadership — guide system architecture, ensure scalability and reliability, and support engineers with complex design and implementation challenges.
• Stay hands-on — review code, prototype solutions, and occasionally contribute directly.
• Balance priorities — manage the trade-offs between new features, technical debt, and performance.
• Shape team process — introduce pragmatic structure for planning, sprints, and delivery.
• Collaborate across functions — align backend, frontend, and design efforts with product goals.
• Measure and iterate — define success metrics and use data to drive improvement.

You Might Be a Fit If You

• Have 5–10 years of experience in software development, including system design and delivery.
• Have strong Python development experience.
• Have solid knowledge of distributed systems design — scalability, reliability, observability, and performance.
• Have led small teams or projects where you balanced technical leadership and product delivery.
• Communicate clearly with both engineers and business stakeholders.
• Thrive in early-stage environments — adaptable, resourceful, and delivery-focused.
• Are comfortable getting hands dirty while maintaining strategic perspective.

Nice to Have

• Experience scaling early-stage products to production reliability.
• Experience with agentic coding
• Experience mentoring developers and shaping engineering culture.

🚫 Who This Role Isn’t For

- Engineers who want to manage people and avoid hands-on building.

- Corporate-minded architects who expect massive infrastructure and rigid processes.

- Those seeking the order and stability of big-company environments—priorities here shift fast.

- Candidates looking for fully remote work - at this stage, we collaborate best in-person.

🌟 Why You’ll Love Working at Yolk

- Ground-floor ownership: Shape the core AI systems at a fast-moving, venture-backed startup.

- High visibility & impact: Work directly with the CEO and leadership team.

- Dual mandate: Ship customer-facing features now, build the AI coaching platform for tomorrow.

- Upside: Competitive salary, stock options, build something that matters

- Culture: A dynamic, collaborative, and supportive team that moves fast and wins together.