Come join an exciting and emerging team of product thinkers, designers, engineers, and data science experts who are on a mission to deliver world-class software.
We’re building an extremely ambitious relationship management tool that will help people and companies around the world get dramatically better visibility into their personal and professional networks.
We’re looking for a Product Manager to work directly with our Chief Product Officer, and help play conductor to our orchestra of talented designers and engineers.
This is an opportunity at a high-growth startup with veteran leadership direct from Silicon Valley, USA.
Day-to-day, the job will involve keeping track of the 1000 moving parts within a feature team - writing specs, learning the customer requirements, managing and prioritizing the backlog, keeping the engineering team unblocked, launching features, and monitoring the results.
We are a very collaborative team, constantly learning, and continuously improving our product and processes.
If this sounds like the right challenge - reach out. We need you!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog.
- Translate the product strategy and customer requirements into a set of design, development and documentation tasks.
- Learn the customer’s and market’s requirements, and run user research interviews.
- Partner closely with the engineering team to ensure they are inspired, unblocked and highly productive.
- Derisking and collaborating on defining the ideal architecture to meet our long-term goals
- When issues arrive, document the current situation, complication, and potential solutions.
- Communicate timing of feature releases and set good expectations.
- Work closely with QA and Engineering to catch bugs before our customers.
- Facilitate the delivery of features (designed, developed, and deployed) in weeks, not months
- Instrument the product so that we have the data to catch things early and measure the impact.
- Create Mixpanel dashboards for your features, communicate insights to the team, and rally the team to turn insight into action.
- Actively research competitors and share synthesized insights with the company and product team.
YOU SHOULD
- Have direct experience in product management, ideally at a B2B SaaS company.
- Be extremely detail-oriented and organized. A large portion of the work is about clearly documenting what needs to be done, ensuring the team is aligned, and effectively tracking each individual's progress.
- Be an excellent communicator (in both written and spoken English). You will be speaking with our US-based customers regularly to solicit feedback and learn about their needs and wants.
- Be knowledgeable about product design, and passionate about building excellent, functional, and useful products (but also know your own limits and biases).
- Have a great understanding of how to make good engineering tradeoffs.
- Be comfortable in a fast-moving organization. Work collaboratively and cross-functionally to keep the team inspired and delivering on-time.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- B.A/B.S. in a related discipline - engineering, management, information science, etc.
- 3+ years of experience working in a software product organization, or similar experience.
IT WOULD BE SUPER COOL (BUT NOT REQUIRED) IF
- You have deep knowledge of the Sales and Marketing software space.
- A hands-on background in Engineering is a huge plus.
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary
- Generous equity plans
- Work environment that will help you grow and learn
- Fast-paced San Francisco / Silicon Valley startup experience
- Features designed, developed, and deployed in weeks, not months
- Fun and inclusive atmosphere with high-performing colleagues
- Fitpass
- Breakfast, snacks, and beverages in the office
- Team-building events during work days
- Modern office space with a pool, leisure areas, sauna, and gym
- Latest hardware and software tools
WORKING HOURS AND LOCATION
- In office 4-5 days per week as needed by the team.
- Opportunity for up to 2 days of remote work per week based on team needs. This can be earned over time as your team gets in a rhythm and performs exceptionally well.
- We believe in the magic of colocated product teams working together.
- Office is in the Dedinje neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia.
- Hours are 11 am to 7 pm CET (or later) to allow for overlap with customers, prospects, and colleagues in the USA.
- Later hours for calls with the USA will be required frequently.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Connect The Dots was founded in 2019 by a team of veteran entrepreneurs, technologists, designers, and product thinkers from Salesforce, Facebook, and more. We are on a mission to disrupt several well-known product categories through an innovative approach to connecting people. Get in touch to learn more.
THE TEAM
- Drew Sechrist, CEO (Ex Salesforce)
- Ian Swinson, Head of Design (Ex Salesforce, Facebook, Anaplan)
- Aniket Prabhune, Chief Product Officer (Ex Google, Amazon)
- Ivan Rajkovic, Head of Engineering (Ex Adacta)
- Jelena Graovac, Head of Data Science (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics)
