Product Manager

We're a fully remote agile consultancy helping both enterprise and startup clients build critical products and systems. We not only build great products, we care about how great products are built and improving the experience of it. We're dedicated to inclusion, transparency, a bias towards action, and learning through experimentation.

We're looking for Product Managers that are self-motivated and demonstrated team-players. This is a fully REMOTE position. You will be responsible for the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products, as well as helping grow those around you.

You are passionate about creating innovative products in the automotive and IoT space that will drive business outcomes in the future of transportation. You have good product instincts, excellent communication skills, and have a good understanding of the technology we use and product design patterns. You want to work with engineers and designers on a small, contained delivery team. You care deeply about product management and are always seeking to improve your skills. You thrive under uncertainty, and have a bias towards action. You understand that a product manager has to lead without authority, aligning both your team and external actors to a common purpose and objectives. Success is defined by the success of your team and your clients.

You'll have to:

• Hold ceremonies and enforce agile development practices to keep the dev team on track
• Manage the backlog to organizational priorities, so that stakeholders have confidence in what's getting worked on
• Translate requirements from the business - which you get by going to meetings - into stories we can play
• Manage dev teams to deadlines, without creating stress on the team
• Provide clarity to engineers on context, with perspective on strategy/larger requirements as needed
• Test/Accept work to ensure quality
• Gather additional information as needed, be good at getting at information/answers and communicating/documenting
• Report on and communicate status and progress at regular intervals for stakeholders
• Maintain a working knowledge of many adjacent moving pieces; be a source of information for other teams on your systems/projects
• Support demos and provide other visibility for your products

Requirements

• Experience with two of the following: lean startup methodologies, agile development methodologies, working directly with clients
• Experience shipping successful products, including defining vision, strategy, outcome-driven product roadmaps and creating and managing backlogs
• Experience articulating and testing product hypotheses
• Demonstrated ability to define and track KPIs and other measurable success criteria
• Deep user empathy and strong user experience sensibilities
• Experience closely collaborating with engineers and designers as part of small co-located teams
• Demonstrated ability to get things done in a rapidly changing environment
  Ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to adapt your communication style for the audience
• Demonstrated ability to influence decision making in different contexts
  Interest in coaching others
• Ability to facilitate collaborative decision-making in a workshop context
• Ability to quickly understand a specific client domain and identify the trends and opportunities in that space

Desired skills / experiences

• Experience with both lean startup methodologies and agile development methodologies
• Experience working directly with clients and leading projects
• Experience shipping both new products as well as improving upon existing ones
• Experience leading or supporting user research
• Experience mentoring other PMs a plus
• Experience working with or inside enterprise scale organizations a plus
• Experience as a designer or engineer a plus

Benefits

• Employee health insurance covered 100%
• Fitness membership reimbursement
• 401K with matching
• Company equity
• Annual performance bonus
• Professional development
• Work-life balance
• Competitive salary