Forward Deployed Product Manager

About Us:

Higharc is a VC-backed startup changing how new homes are designed and built. Higharc is seeking a hands-on Forward Deployed Product Manager to turn a large production homebuilder's unstructured plan catalog into structured, queryable product data. This is a founding role on a brand-new Forward Deployed team.

What You'll Do:

A homebuilder's plan library is the product data behind its entire business, and at enterprise scale that data is almost entirely unstructured. Higharc converts those catalogs into structured, queryable plan data and builds analysis on top of it, including searchable plan libraries with agent-enabled natural-language search, geometric similarity scoring, structured mapping of variation, and classification for consolidation decisions.

You'll own what gets built in the field, working embedded alongside Forward Deployed Engineers and in partnership with the homebuilder to turn plans into actionable data. Higharc is fully remote; you can sit anywhere in the continental U.S., with travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

• Embed with HQ, regional, and division teams to run discovery, locate plan assets, establish sources of truth, and document how divisions represent plans.
• Own product definition for the searchable plan library, analytics dashboard, and agent-enabled search.
• Tune Higharc's Autotranslate AI to identify, categorize, and translate floorplans into data.
• Work hands-on with data, query the structured plan library, build against internal APIs, and ship working capabilities.
• Define acceptance criteria for delivery milestones, coverage targets, data-field completeness, and QA error thresholds.
• Frame and defend quantifiable ROI, including catalog redundancy, dimensional spread, consolidation candidates, and purchasing leverage.
• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineering, the Technical Lead, QA, Intake Specialists, and Client Strategy, and present progress and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders.
• Capture playbooks, artifacts, and data patterns for future engagements.

About You:

You're a product manager who is happiest closest to the customer. You're comfortable with partially specified scopes and unstructured data. You can discuss plan-set details with an architect and write queries to test hypotheses about the data.

• 5+ years of product management experience, including significant time in customer-facing or deployed settings such as enterprise implementations, solutions engineering, technical consulting, or professional services.
• Hands-on technical fluency with SQL, notebooks, APIs, and direct data analysis.
• Experience prototyping with tools such as Cursor, Replit, or V0.dev.
• Experience defining structured data models, taxonomies, or classification schemes and driving business adoption.
• Strong judgment about data quality and decision accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executive stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel to client sites and company events up to 30% of the time.

A major plus if you also bring:

• Background in residential construction, homebuilding, architecture, or AEC technology.
• Experience with agent-based or natural-language search, RAG systems, or LLM-powered analytics.
• Exposure to geometric or spatial data, CAD/BIM, computer vision, similarity, or clustering methods.
• Experience with large-scale data migrations or ingestion programs.
• Experience building a function from zero.

Working at Higharc:

Higharc has been remote first since its founding in 2018 and offers flexible hours, competitive salaries with significant equity, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible PTO, maternity/paternity leave, disability plans, a 401K, and a home-office stipend.