PRODUCT MANAGER

Job Description

Our client is a well funded start-up company with a mission to organize and empower the part-time and hourly teams of the world.

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager to take ownership over some of our current products (Labor Management, Pay, Mobile, Labor Market) and play a key part in defining and facilitating our product process.

Our product leverages advancements in machine learning and payments technology to reimagine the way companies communicate with, and pay their hourly wage employees.

Who You Are:

• You are empathetic and work well with different personalities and styles.

• You are a leader

• You are highly adaptable and are comfortable in an environment with limited resources and quickly shifting opportunities and issues

• You can internalize the mindset of a customer or user and put yourself in their shoes

• You provide constructive, direct feedback to teammates' work You are detail-oriented and have an eye for visual design & UX Culture

• You are a builder, experimenter, and steward of our (still-early) product culture and company culture as it scales

• You emphasize the importance of data collection & monitoring in measuring the success of the product and efficiency of the team

• You are an advocate for our customers and users (managers and especially workers)

• You are an advocate for the product team, and for the engineering team in particular when it comes to managing technical debt

• You are mindful of remote employees and always strive to keep them included

• You are proactive in helping hire engineers, designers, and other PMs

• You work closely with new team members on their first project(s), welcoming them and facilitating their journey to shipping

What You'll Do:

• You'll strategize on how to leverage the product in creative ways to capture incoming business opportunities, and on how to grow the product toward the company vision

• You'll provide clear direction for the product across different resolutions (week/month/quarter/year)

• You'll facilitate direct collaboration between the engineering team, design team, and company leadership. You will also facilitate alignment between these teams and the customer success, marketing, and sales teams

• You'll create the framework for how to prioritize product features, weighing opportunity size (in protecting and growing our revenue), user experience impact, alignment to mission, and internal cost (technical, customer support)

• You'll provide clear definition around an outcome and how to measure its success, especially when there are conflicting concerns, e.g. whether making it very high quality, meeting a deadline, or getting something out for feedback

• You'll QA new releases and make the call on when or how to ship something You follow up after a feature launch to evaluate the impact of our solution and decide whether to take steps to improve it

Qualifications:

• 3+ years' experience of working as a Product Manager or an Associate Product Manager

• Significant experience of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle

• Significant experience of developing product and marketing strategies and effectively communicating recommendations to executive management

• Excellent understanding of software development and web technologies

• Strong problem solving skills and high responsibility

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• MS or BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant area