Product Manager

Product Manager

Location: Hybrid, with headquarters in New Haven, CT

Company Description

Protein Evolution is developing a biological recycling solution for plastic waste that is low-cost, low-energy, and low-emissions. 

The company benefits from being part of 4Catalyzer, an incubator of biotechnology and medical device companies (most notably, Butterfly Network, Hyperfine, and Quantum-Si). Protein Evolution has recently closed a significant round of funding that provides us multiple years of runway.

Job Description

We are looking for a candidate who wants to work with business, scientific, and engineering stakeholders to ensure our technical product is delivered as fast as possible and with the right specifications. This job description is intentionally broad - as this is a dynamic role. Some potential work streams may include:

• Modeling: Develop and validate cost models for various parts of our recycling process. Identify key cost levers and communicate their impact to the team.
• Supply chain: Identify products that are in our critical path and do whatever it takes to acquire them as fast as possible. Make 20 calls, send 100 emails, or figure out other ways to get what our team needs here faster than others think is possible.
• Project management: Create simple, lightweight, non-invasive processes to track development progress 
• Organization: Identify key areas of entropy and impose structure, from our discovery pipeline to our lab organization
• Special projects: Take on high priority and unstructured product problems and assemble fact packs that allow the team to make a decision
• Whatever it takes: Jump in and help with whatever is needed to get the job done: machine set up, moving furniture and more - as we are a start-up, you never know!

Qualifications

• Two years of experience in a high pressure field with significant hours like consulting, investment banking, or product development at a startup
• Ability to understand and distill scientific and engineering problems quickly
• Bias to simplicity. You find ways to buy instead of build, use excel instead of project management tools, and remove processes instead of fixing them

Additional Information

We offer great perks: 

• Fully covered medical insurance plan, and dental & vision coverage - as a health-tech company, we place great worth on the well-being of our team members
• Competitive salaried compensation - we value our employees and show it 
• Equity - we want every employee to be a stakeholder
• Pre-tax commuter benefits - we make your commute more reasonable 
• Free onsite meals + kitchen stocked with snacks
• 401k plan - we facilitate your retirement goals
• The opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives

Protein Evolution does not accept agency resumes.

Protein Evolution is an E-Verify and equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or Veteran status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.