Founding Product Lead — ModelVault

Remote, South Africa

ModelVault is building the world’s first plug-and-play on-premise AI server — a fully-integrated appliance that ships with containerized LLMs, vision models, developer tools, and remote management built in. Designed for businesses that need local, secure, cloud-independent AI , ModelVault brings AI infrastructure in-house — without the complexity.

We’re looking for a founder-type Product Lead to drive the development of our v1 hardware + software platform. You’ll work side-by-side with the founding team to take the product from zero to pilot deployments — owning strategy, execution, and market feedback.

This is not just a product management job — it’s an opportunity to define a new category and build a company from the inside out.

🎯 What You’ll Own

Shape the product vision for our first integrated AI appliance — what it does, who it’s for, how it works

Define the v1 scope — which models to include, how to prioritize use cases, what UX + developer tools to build

Work closely with engineering to ship local model serving, fine-tuning workflows, remote update systems, and UI/CLI interfaces

Run product discovery with dev teams, research groups, and IT buyers to validate demand...