Position: Product Owner
Company: UpPeople
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

We want you to take ownership of our current and future products that have millions of active users across the globe. For Massive, ownership means improving user retention, defining and prioritizing new features, planning and roadmaps.
You’ll be joining a team of 12 full-time employees, two-thirds of whom are engineers. You’ll work alongside the sales and engineering teams to bring partners from agreement to integration.
🧑‍✈️ Leadership
Jason Grad, Co-founder and CEO: Top-1% Yelp sales rep and founding member of Yelp’s national sales team; founder of 2 successfully acquired venture-backed startups, Cheerful and RCVR
Brian Kennish, Co-founder and CTO: Pre-IPO Google engineer, on the teams that launched Google’s first 3 APIs then the Chrome browser; developer of 7 subsequent apps with 1M+ active users, including Disconnect (privacy software available on ~1B users’ computers) and Adblock Fast (an ad blocker with 10M+ users)
Jael Taillefer, Director of Engineering: For the past 13 years, using modern stacks, he’s scoped, built, and architected highly scalable solutions to meet the demand for more speed and traffic
📋 Responsibilities
Bring integrations from agreement to implementation
Ensure and communicate around timelines
Manage the product lifecycle, from idea through development to launch
Work with a designer to deliver prototypes, integration mockups, and incentive ideas
Define and manage features, priorities, and roadmaps
Ensure the features are released on time
Define business rules
Define success criteria
Define and monitor key product metrics
Manage the purchase and optimization of installs
Drive retention and ARPU optimization projects
Support app developer partners
QA & testing
🧭 Ideal candidate
3+ years of software product management experience
Experience working in early-stage startups
Strong analytical skills, to analyze product performance data and the impact of changes
Experience collecting both internal and external customer feedback
Write user stories and feature breakdowns
Good understanding of data and the ability to generate reports
Self-starter with excellent time management and organization skills
Able to handle multiple priorities
 
Would be a plus:
2–3 years of experience as a project manager or scrum master
2–3 years of consulting experience
Experience in the blockchain space
UI/UX skills
Social media skills
Web marketing experience
Agile certification is desirable
 
Anywhere in a time zone between EST and PST preferred; we’ve found that large time differences can be tough in a small team; you don’t need to be in the US