Position: Product Owner
Company: StartupSoft
Experience required: 3y
Category: Product Manager
English level: upper
Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

StartupSoft connects top Ukrainian engineers with world-class startups from Silicon Valley and EU. Our developers work directly on the product as an integral part of the startup team

**About project**
Birdwatch is a recently-founded concierge home maintenance company that brings together a founding team with decades of experience in related services. 
We are your one-stop shop for everything you need in your home: repairs, improvements, preventative maintenance, renovation advising, and more.
We are on a mission (we’re a public benefit C corp) to save time, energy, and money for our customers while creating respected, well-paying jobs and having a positive impact on every community and vendor partner that we serve. It’s a circular economy that doesn’t create profit at the expense of a particular stakeholder group

**Tech stack**
React, JavaScript

**Team composition**
CPO, Engineering lead, 2 tech leads, full-stack, QA, product designer. They plan to grow their team x2

**Project stage**
Early stage startup

**Qualifications and skills**
* You have a track record of building human-centered, engaging customer experiences and products, preferably with experience in services industries
* You have thrived in multiple product roles, including both early-stage tech start-ups and more mature environments, and you dislike micromanagement (because we don’t do it, we don’t have time for it, and we don’t want to you do it either)
* You have proven experience building strong yet concise business cases, with exceptional verbal and written storytelling skills
* You have the ability to conduct truly useful market analyses and user research;
* Your past peers and subordinates love you and are inspired by your work and work ethic
* You demand the best of everyone around you (both below & above on the org chart)
* You have a clear sense of accountability with the ambiguity of a startup environment, and you proactively bring structure where there is little or none
* You have repeatedly demonstrated personal success in creating software architecture and building digital products from early-stage release through to scaled deployment
* You’ve managed, mentored, and inspired a small team of engineers providing architectural guidance, code reviews, etc

**Responsibilities**
* You will help shape the vision of our platform and roll up your sleeves to help us bring to market a suite of products and services to enable the homeowner, technician, vendor, and home manager experiences. We need your thought partnership, your insight, and your execution
* Enable the creation of the product roadmap and product planning process that defines and releases v1 of the BirdWatch OS by EOY 2022
* Build and own feature development, specifications, and release success
* Create a voice of the customer protocol in the first 90 days
* Manage external platform implementations
* Refine and maintain competitive analysis for both product and marketing purposes

**You will get:**
* Competitive financial reward and other social benefits;
* Possibility to work with minor supervision and low-bureaucracy;
* Flexible schedule and friendly working atmosphere;
* Tight-knit team with an inclusive and transparent culture.