About Us
Upside Financing enables Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) businesses to take advantage of extended payment terms for their Inventory and PO purchases. In turn, this allows Brands and Manufacturers to grow at the speed of their business instead of relying on traditional banking relationships or by resorting to dilutive equity raises.
Our founding team of CPG executives created Upside to alleviate major cash flow pain points they experienced when growing their own CPG brands. And as we’ve seen through our early traction with customers and capital partners, we’re not the only ones searching for a solution.
Prior to our formal launch (coming soon!), we’ve received $190mm in total debt offers and closed a seed round from carefully vetted and time-proven Silicon Valley VCsWithin 16 weeks, we lined up $10.6mm in equity, closed a $30mm debt facility, executed partnerships opening up a pipeline of over 10,000 customers, and perhaps most importantly - hired a knowledgeable team (30 and counting!) made up of different talents, backgrounds, and experiences.
The Opportunity
We’re excited to add a SeniorProduct Manager to our Product team. Reporting to our Product Lead, your charge will be to identify our customer needs and translate them into products and experiences that drive long term success. You are comfortable with ambiguity, work well cross-functionally, and have an owner’s mentality.
What You’ll Do
- Assist with development and management of product roadmap
- Work with engineering to plan, prioritize, and build out product backlog
- Solicit feedback from operations and sales teams to inform product enhancements and plan delivery timeline
- Understand the regulatory environment for our products to ensure compliance. Approach building products in a highly regulated and ever evolving environment as an opportunity for creative and customer-friendly solutions, rather than a threat
- Use data-driven experimentation and measurement frameworks to track product success or lack thereof
- Participate in equity and inclusion initiatives across the company
How We Hire &What We’re Looking For
We want everyone to thrive at Upside and scope our roles through the lens of “how can we best set this person up to succeed?” We prioritize culture-add over culture-fit, hire for potential, and value transferable skills.
In some cases, we may look for someone who has done this role in a previous or current company in order to be truly successful - and Product Manager falls into this category.
Skills and attributes that we think would make someone successful in this role include, but are not limited to:
- Experience managing lending products or another highly regulated industry
- Deep understanding of software development and platform services
- Ability to champion the use of data to drive automated decisions online
- Ability to communicate a complex and evolving product vision clearly and concisely to a distributed team. Willingness to communicate using various methods depending on audience
- Propensity to thrive in a fast paced, nimble and evolving company
- Experience hiring and/or mentoring product managers
- Vested interest in perpetuating a collaborative, inclusive, productive working environment that prioritizes candor and psychological safety - emphasis on team: when one of us ‘wins’ we all win;when one of us needs support, we all jump in to support.
Benefits &Wellness
Our philosophy is that we cannot take care of others (our customers) without taking care of ourselves (our people) first. We believe that the definition of ‘wellness’ is unique to everyone which is why we’ve created a benefits package with a broad range of options in order to best accommodate the needs of our team.
As a pre Series A startup, we know the value in offering a steady support system such as a robust benefits plan, salaries in line with or above startup market rate, work from anywhere flexibility, and beyond.
Here are a few other ways we support our team:
- Medical, Dental, &Vision insurance premiums are covered for employees &their families.
- Paid Time Off: We offer three weeks of paid vacation each calendar year and perpetuate a working environment conducive to taking time off.
- Holidays: We observe 12 paid holidays annually.
- Wellness: We offer a monthly budget to invest in anything that supports wellness as you define it - whether that be physical, mental, emotional, financial, and beyond.
- Ongoing education: We cover the costs of books, podcasts, and classes that support career growth specific to your role and/or our industry.
- Flexible Days &Schedule: We ask that the team is available on Tuesdays for internal meetings and collaboration, though understand that the rest is up to each individual to customize their working hours and schedule.
- Equity &Inclusion (E&I): We incorporate E&I education &awareness into team meetings as well as leadership development. We allocated resources for in-house DEI expertise after our first ten hires to ensure that we are applying best E&I practices across all facets of the Company, while actively contributing to progress in our industry.
- Team Retreats, Meetings, &Travel: While group gatherings are temporarily on pause due to the pandemic and the latest CDC guidance, we have and will cover costs for future all-team retreats, ad hoc team meetings, and travel no questions asked.
Thank you for considering joining the Upside Financing team! We genuinely appreciate your interest.
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