Location: NYC
Type: Full-time, in-person at Hampton’s NYC Chelsea office
Team: Core, Reports to VP of Core
About Hampton
Hampton is a private network for high-growth founders running tech-enabled companies with $3M+ in revenue.
Our members are ambitious builders scaling successful companies looking for more than just tactical advice or transactional networking. They want depth. They want peers who truly get it. They want a place where they can talk about the wins, the screwups, the quiet doubts, the “okay… what now?”
They’re scaling businesses, but they also know that their next 10x comes from growing themselves as leaders.That’s why they join Hampton.
At the center of Hampton are Core Groups: small, hand-curated circles of founders who meet in person every month to work through their hardest challenges, trade unfiltered feedback, and hold each other accountable at a level that only true peers can. This is where trust is built, breakthroughs happen, and the real value of Hampton comes to life.
Beyond Core Groups, founders plug into curated local events, immersive retreats, and an active global digital community, designed to drive compounding personal and professional growth.
The Role
We’re hiring a Core Product Lead to help build and scale the heartbeat of Hampton: Core.
In a world racing toward AI automation and digital scale-at-all-costs, this role is intentionally human-first, built around depth, nuance, and emotional intelligence.
This isn’t a traditional product role. You’re not designing software, you’re designing human experiences. You’ll shape how founders connect, how groups evolve over time, and how we scale intimacy, accountability, and impact without losing quality.
We believe a great Core Group is like a cult, in the best possible way. A cult has rituals, language, and shared beliefs that make belonging feel magnetic. Your job is to help implement those “cult-y” elements into every group: the symbols, the structure, and the sense of sacredness that makes people show up, open up, and stay committed.
Every Core Group is led by a Moderator, someone we pay, train, and support to deliver that experience. You’ll help recruit the right moderators, design what “great” looks like through clear programming and rituals, train them to deliver it, and hold them accountable to Hampton’s standard of excellence.
A critical part of this role is designing for three interdependent customers:
- Founders, who need a space where they feel challenged and understood, where the experience consistently delivers real breakthroughs and long-term growth.
- Moderators, who need the right rituals, tools, frameworks, and support to reliably create depth and momentum in every session.
- Groups as a whole, which function like living organisms, requiring healthy dynamics, evolving trust, and long-term sustainability to thrive.
You’ll bring clarity, structure, and creativity to Hampton’s core systems, blending strategy with empathy, data with intuition, and applying product-thinking discipline to a deeply human problem. You’ll run rapid experiments, testing rituals, formats, moderator tools, and behavioral levers in real rooms, then scale the approaches that consistently drive engagement and group health.
Founders spend their lives leading, often without a space to be real themselves. Hampton exists to give them that space. In this role, you’ll build the systems that make human connection work at scale and help thousands of founders become better leaders, and better people.
This role is based in New York City, with three days a week in the office.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with the VP of Core to sharpen the vision, build and execute the roadmap for Hampton’s Core programming, ensuring it lands, scales and drives retention.
- Help recruit, train, onboard and manage a world-class bench of Moderators, ensuring each one embodies Hampton’s values and delivers transformative group experiences.
- Codify and create the tools, training, and rituals that help moderators lead powerful, consistent, emotionally intelligent groups.
- Define what makes an outstanding, high-quality Core Group and the behaviors that drive belonging and accountability.
- Systematically gather and translate feedback from customers into actionable improvements that feed into a clear roadmap
- Build playbooks, processes, and systems that preserve Hampton’s intimacy while we grow globally.
Success in This Role Will Be Measured By
- Healthy, thriving Core Groups that stay strong and become institutions over time with clearly defined success metrics.
- High member and moderator satisfaction and retention rooted in Core Group experiences.
- Clear frameworks and operational excellence that make scaling feel natural.
- A consistently high-performing moderator bench that can scale Hampton’s “cult of belonging” across cities without losing quality or soul.
You’re Likely a Fit IF You Are
- A minimum of 4-8 years with experimentation, product or program development, and delivering clear customer outcomes.
- A strategist–operator who thrives in ambiguity and loves creating order.
- You’re energized by in-person collaboration and live human dynamics. You’re deeply curious about human behavior, group dynamics, and what builds trust. You’re curious about how founders connect, what motivates them, and how to create environments where they grow.
- You’re analytical and grounded, but also intuitive. You know how to A/B test like the best product managers but you know when to move, fast.
- You can fluidly move from execution to big picture thinking.
Bonus Points For
- Experience building or scaling community-driven products, learning programs, or membership models.
- A background in product strategy, consulting, or founder/ops roles.
- Familiarity with coaching, facilitation, or psychology.
- Both 0→1 and 1→10 muscles, you can build from scratch and scale with discipline.
What’s in It for You
- A high-visibility role with access to Hampton’s influential founder network
- $130 – $150K salary, depending on experience
- Individual performance bonus structure
- 401(k) with company match
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
If you’re a product builder who’s tired of building software and ready to design deep human experiences, let’s talk.
