Product Manager

About Purple Carrot

Purple Carrot started with just a seed of an idea in 2014. Our vision is a world where plant-based eating is at the core of living well. Every day, on this mission, we're breaking boundaries with plant-based eating. We value learning from customers, an ownership mindset, integrity, winning together, and being bold. We need your expertise on our team to make things happen!

Purple Carrot's irresistible, globally-inspired meal-kit recipes and prepared meals using fresh ingredients are available in the U.S. and Japan. We are a team of collaborative individuals who drive for results, strive for doing better, make good choices quickly, and embrace a growth mindset to win or learn. Here's what you're up for!

Description

We are looking for a Product Manager to join our mission-driven team. As an integral part of a Product and Engineering department, you will join forces with the VP, Product and Engineering in our continued effort to inspire people to eat more plants!

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about building an excellent customer experience, hiring and managing a team of highly productive engineers to service both front-end and back-end platform needs, and can lay the foundation for technology that gets plant-based meals into the hands of millions of customers.

This position will play an important role in defining the technical future of Purple Carrot's website, its fulfillment technology, and its scalable integration with 3rd party services.

As the Product Manager you will be focused on building and managing a team of engineers, working closely with stakeholders teams to develop and launch new features, both for consumers as well as for internal stakeholders. You will take a strategic lens to what needs to be built, how to prioritize it, how to synthesize customer needs into launched deliverables.

We greatly thank all applicants, however only those under serious consideration will be contacted.

Location

• Purple Carrot HQ is in Needham, MA and prefers local candidates to work in a hybrid model.
• This role has limited travel (< 10%) to partner sites or other business related meetings. Regular travel to Needham, MA HQ is expected if outside the area.
• Regular interaction with our parent company in Japan is required for this role, which sometimes includes working hours outside normal business hours

On the Plate

• Write and communicate functional requirements, partnering with various product, marketing, UX and insights stakeholders
• Use lean development tools, like experimentation and rapid prototyping, to drive teams towards strategic product decisions
• Develop and own a product roadmap, demonstrating a strong focus on KPIs and measurement
• Frame and lead discussions with key business and technical stakeholder to assess opportunities, make data-driven recommendations, and build consensus ahead of important investment decisions
• Be the authority on the creator experience that you manage
• Understand your product's strengths and weaknesses
• Find the right opportunities to innovate and enhance the experience with the right combination of essential and magical
• Manage dependencies and unblock your teams to optimize discovery and delivery work
• Proactively communicate product metrics and insights, showcasing a deep understanding of how your features are benefiting customers and the business
• Support building the long-term strategy and roadmap for Creator Products, helping to set the vision and guidance
• Identify new Product opportunities in the operations, growth and monetization space
• Drive alignment by leading tradeoff discussions that produce actionable decisions
• Be the authority on the customer experiences that you manage
• Find the right opportunities to innovate and skillfully balance big ideas with incremental impact for your customers
• Continually monitor creator tools and trends to ensure Audible is delivering value for creators

Main Ingredients for the Role

• 5+ years of relevant product management experience in consumer technology
• Experience maintaining a product roadmap and leading delivery of software products
• Demonstrated experience in agile, lean product management processes on high-velocity teams
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience owning technology products

Extra Special Sauce

• Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs, and evaluate ambiguous new ideas
• Demonstrated data driven product leadership
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills that allow you to work with both technical and non-technical individuals
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, autonomously, and cross-functionally
• Go-to-market experience with consumer tech products
• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
• Meets/exceeds Purple Carrot's values and competencies requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Purple Carrot's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Garnish

We love our staff, and show it with benefits (including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, FSA, and life insurance), matching retirement plan, unlimited paid time off, Purple Carrot box allowance, professional development, and the opportunity to work in collaboration with teammates who are passionate about food!

Final Touches

Purple Carrot's top priority is protecting the health and wellbeing of our team and candidates. The majority of our interviews and assessments occur virtually. If there is a need to interview onsite, we follow COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, WHO, and any state guidelines .

We are committed to a safe and inclusive work environment, free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, handicap, veteran status, or marital status.