Product Manager - remote

FetLife
Posted 3 years ago
We Work Remotely
At FetLife we are looking for an open-minded, kink-friendly Product Manager to help us better serve the community.

At the strategic level, you will be responsible for
  • Defining the strategy, setting clear goals, and building a roadmap that helps the team realize the product vision
  • Collaborating closely with stakeholders to drive the ideation, research, design, and development of member-focused features and improvements
  • Keeping the team focused and excited to solve member problems by connecting the work they do to our member's success and our larger mission
  • Build alignment across the different members and teams
At the tactical level, you will be responsible for
  • Conducting research to better understand members' needs
  • Diving into our data to better understand how people use FetLife
  • Drafting hypotheses based on what was learnt through member research, data, etc.
  • Validating hypothesis and potential solutions with the community
  • Conducting A/B tests to validate hypothesis and report back on findings
  • Prioritizing initiatives based on potential impact, complexity, estimated cost, etc.
  • Defining and breaking up projects into small and measurable iterative improvements
  • Expressing requirements through job stories, acceptance criteria, and wireframes
  • Removing blockers to make sure initiatives move forward smoothly
  • Reviewing project outcomes, summarizing feedback, and prioritizing next steps
  • Defining, tracking, and reporting on key metrics
  • Supporting the product team by removing blockers
You should have 3+ years experience
  • Significantly and measurably improving key metrics of a product
  • Defining the strategy, setting clear goals, and maintaining roadmaps for products
  • Delivering member insights via interviews, surveys, data analysis, A/B testing, etc.
  • Effectively prioritizing projects based on people’s needs and potential impact
  • Defining and breaking up projects into small measurable iterative improvements
  • Expressing requirements through job stories, acceptance criteria, and wireframes
  • Successfully launching and iterating over web or mobile products
Bonus if you have experience
  • Working remotely
  • Working as a contractor
  • Effectively working on a small remote team
To be successful, you need to be or have
  • Passionate about, and fundamentally believe in, the mission and vision of FetLife
  • Goal oriented, data-driven, and follow a scientific approach to problem-solving
  • Empathetic to the needs of a diverse group of members and stakeholders
  • Focused on continuously working on and improving yourself and our processes
  • An effective and clear written communicator and collaborator
  • Outstanding project and time management skills
  • Solid understanding of product design, development, and QA
  • Able to use data to support your decisions
  • Detail oriented with a passion for quality
  • Have core overlap hours from 8-12 AM EST (2-6 PM CET)
Bonus, if you can or have
  • Developed hypotheses on how to delight members
  • Great judgment about people, product, and business
  • Find nuggets of valuable information in a sea of data
At FetLife we
  • Are 100% remote, work from multiple time zones
  • Use Notion, Slack, and GitHub to collaborate
  • Are community driven and work both hard and smart
You can find our core values here.
Why work with FetLife
  • Have your work impact millions of people
  • Work with a great group of people from all over the world
  • Grow as a Product Manager #BigPassionateCommunity #HighTraffic
  • Gain a broader and deeper understanding of human sexuality and kink
More about FetLife
  • Largest kinky social network this side of the milky way
  • We focus on doing the right thing and not hockey stick shaped charts
  • Have over 10 million members… and growing
  • Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
  • Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day
How we hire
  • Everyone initially starts as either a part-time or full-time contractor
  • If over time we both believe it's a good fit, and you're interested in something more permanent, we then will make you a more permanent offer
How to apply
Send an email to jointheteam+pm@fetlife.com. In the email, please include:

  • Quick introduction about yourself
  • How would you organize your first four weeks at FetLife and what would you plan to accomplish each week?
  • Why you believe you are the right person for this role
  • Link to your LinkedIn profile -and/or- a copy of your resume in PDF format
  • Availability i.e. part-time (amount of hours per week) or full-time
  • Rate
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to email us at jointheteam+pm@fetlife.com!