Technical Product Manager, Memri - remote

Posted 3 years ago
Stack Overflow

We are looking for the best Technical Product Manager for our team. Some people get the best jobs because they have the right network of friends, ex-colleagues or family. But there are many people without that luck and never have that opportunity.

This is your opportunity!

Background of the product and company

Despite generating more data than ever, our data has less utility to us than ever before because it’s siloed and can’t be manipulated or visualized. Furthermore, existing platforms are designed to capture our attention, manipulate and divide us, and prevent us from efficiently meeting our goals. Put simply, the incentives of tech companies are not aligned with their users.

Memri aims to fix this, giving utility to your data by having it all in one place. Rather than being designed to simply capture your attention, Memri is designed to improve your relationship with technology and empower you with new tools that are useful for your day-to-day life.

Our mission is to empower people by unlocking the potential of their data. We want to create a world where the incentives of technology are aligned with the users. Where people own and control their own data and are “the rulers of their own dataverse,”and can manage this data with a digital assistant which helps them actually make sense of it all.

We are organized as a values driven cooperative that prioritizes people and our planet over profit. We aim to have a global and positive impact on people’s lives by creating technology that works for people, instead of trying to extract data or money from them. We value open and open source software. We look for strong values-driven people who share our vision. We look forward to telling you more about our vision, our values and what we are building.

Team:

Among the core team, we have founders who have built and sold multiple companies, as well as built successful developer communities. We are an international company, having people from the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Germany, Russia, France, Armenia, India and Poland, and working from all around the globe :)

Values

We are strongly values driven. We believe that this provides the structure to scale our organization, innovate our technology and attract top talent as we strive to change the world towards a better future. These values apply to how we work and the philosophy of the solutions we create. People make the product!

Role

We are looking for a Product Management Leader to help us tie our strategic business goals to our technology roadmap. In this role, you will build and own the product roadmap for Memri. You will work directly with the Founders, UX, Engineering, and other disciplines to bring many products to market with an ultimate goal of helping consumers take back the control of their digital life, by creating simple yet powerful and private solutions. As an early employee and our first Product Manager, you will have a huge role in shaping what Memri becomes. If this resonates with you, let's talk!

What you'll do:

  • Set the product vision to achieve our mission of helping consumers take back the control of their digital life, by creating simple yet powerful and private solutions.
  • Build and maintain a product roadmap informed by user needs and industry trends.
  • Transform our vision and user needs into actionable items for our Engineering and Design teams.
  • Cross-functional collaboration during scoping, design, implementation, and rollout.
  • Define key metrics and implement mechanisms to track success.

Requirements

  • Experience with leading teams in shipping successful, innovative consumer-facing products from ideation through design, development, and implementation.
  • Technical experience with analytical tools, methodologies, and design.
  • While not expected to write code, you should be comfortable making system-level technical trade-offs with our engineers to ensure the best user experience.
  • Excellent communication skills - we write a lot!
  • Interest in engaging with the developer community to evangelize the products.
  • Experience building developer communities or shipping products for technical users is a huge plus!

What we offer

  • Work on something that puts people first. Instead of selling people’s private data to the highest bidder, you’ll be working on empowering the user to take control of their data
  • Opportunity to work in an open-source project and to engage with the community
  • Budget for education: conferences, books, courses and other resources to help you grow personally and professionally
  • An environment where feedback is valued, asked regularly and acted upon, you can have impact from day 1
  • We are a flat organization. Any opinion or approach can be challenged, even if it comes from the CEO, team lead, or any other person around. We have a concept of “deep democracy”where, even if a person is a minority in a vote, they are given space to explain and their opinion is taken into account
  • We aim for full transparency, both information and decisions
  • As an early organization we offer a competitive salary with a large stake in the future upside of our effort. Our leadership has successfully started and sold

Hope to see your application letter soon!