Position: Product Manager
Company: Lemon
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

About the project and what you will do:

— Lemon.io is a marketplace of vetted engineers. We match talented developers with startups in the US, Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.
— In our first year, we did $2.73m GMV, and now we are on track to $20m in 2022.
— To achieve that, we are developing internal tools that help to source, vet, onboard, and match talent with relevant projects.
— Your main task will be to measure, control and increase demand side satisfaction. Basically, making sure our product delivers and exceeds customers’ expectations.
— You will directly influence the growth of the company. We don’t micromanage and trust our team to make bold assumptions.
— You’ll work alongside another Product Manager who is focused on supply side growth. Together, you’ll be responsible for Lemon.io’s backlog and roadmap.
— One of the first projects you are going to work on will be revamping the billing experience for our customers. Now we get a lot of inquiries like “what was that for?” You will need to change that.
— We are transparent with our team, clients, and partners and share our journey publicly at volodarik.com/blog & twitter.com/volodarik

Requirements:

— Passionate about technology and figuring out how things work.
— Tech-savvy: can explain technical concepts simply, to both technical and non-technical people.
— Understanding expectations of designers, engineers, QA, marketing, support, and various business stakeholders (around backlog, requirements).
— Smooth verbal and written English.
— Experience with Scrum/Kanban, managing requirements in an Agile environment.
— Experience in driving product strategy and owning the software product roadmap.

As a plus:

— Understanding of outstaffing and outsourcing business model.
— Some project management experience.
— Previous B2B and/or marketplace experience.

Here is what you’ll find at Lemon.io:
— Complete transparency,
— Competitive salary in USD,
— Full remote (but we gladly meet several times a year),
— Annual bonuses for sport, education and travelling,
— Monthly bonus for your home office,
— Flexible working hours (or even days!),
— 28 working days for time-off, 7 days for sick leaves,
— Pride to be a part of viral content generators :)

Key responsibilities:

Research, strategy

— Do the research needed to make high-quality decisions (user interviews, data).
— Work with users during testing and user research to validate ideas/features/hypotheses.
— Analyze competitive environment and similar solutions on the market.
— Discover, frame, and prioritize promising productization opportunities.

Planning

— Manage stakeholders.
— Own product scoping and prioritization sessions, contribute/own product roadmap.
— Plan and prioritize product initiatives and features.

Delivery

— Define and document clear, consistent requirements for development teams.
— Organize and manage product delivery activities: planning, grooming, design review session.
— Lead demo sessions, prepare easy-to-read release notes.
— Effectively manage backlog to keep the development team busy with the most relevant product initiatives.
— Hold technical discussions with developers to help scope project plan and create better requirements for your product.

Collaboration

— Work closely with both Sales and Customer Satisfaction teams to ensure our clients’ experience is smooth and consistent.
— Work with designers on the best UX/UI for end-users.
— Work with engineers to estimate, plan and deliver products in the most efficient way.

We have some perfect swag waiting for you, so do not hesitate to apply :)