Your Responsibilities
1. Product at Raisin requires a broad set of soft and hard skills. While every day is different we see the following as a useful guide as to what to expect
2. You will be the go-to expert for your product and know how company-level business results are influenced by your product.
3. You will lead the iterative refinement of major customer- or business- product problems in your product. You express clearly their value and success criteria, and you call out risks, dependencies and assumptions to qualify. You exhibit accountability for outcomes, not just output.
4. You will foster the habit of working with data, and you improve the availability of data.
5. You will help to illuminate the (collective best guesses for) the most valuable and feasible path for the next 12 months. You get buy-in and inspire your colleagues to help realise it.
6. You will author and make transparent quarterly OKRs and plans with your Engineering lead which have clear value and connection to strategy, ambition and realism, and seek buy-in from your team and stakeholders.
7. You will work excellently with your engineering and design colleagues. You have a sufficient grasp of the best practices of these disciplines, and our implementations-that you can usually sketch coherent high-level solutions to product problems in various relevant software design artefacts which fundamentally stand up to critiques of your counterparts.
8. You will foster a team culture in which feedback is given and received willingly and continually incl. public praise and private, considerate learning opportunities. For you, failure is a shared outcome.
9. You will establish and maintain high-functioning communication channels between your team and all your stakeholder groups to maximise their and your effectiveness. You understand their goals, jobs and pains. You bring in the right people, at the right time, in the right way to topics, and convey complex topics, simply and effectively.
10. You will lead groups of cross-discipline colleagues through complexity and ambiguity to rapidly reach alignment and meaningful decisions.
Your Profile
Must haves:
11. 3+ years of Product Management experience
12. 6+ years total experience working on/with technology-powered products in either product or product-adjacent areas (e.g. development, operations, design)
13. Experience leading a cross-functional team of engineers
Should haves:
14. Experience in the B2C side of a two sided marketplace product and/or eCommerce
15. Experience building distributed systems / microservices
Important attributes for this role:
16. You are detail-oriented, analytical in nature (ideally with a bachelor degree, or previous experience in an analytical discipline)
17. You are organised and multi-threaded; happy moving multiple topics forward in parallel.