Position: Product manager
Company: Freelance
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

1. What are you working on? What is the product?
We are a stealth-mode start up working on a product in risk-management space for construction lending. FinTech.

2. Why is this product interesting or important? What is its value proposition?
In the age of COVID, more and more in-person processes move online. We are enabling lenders to run and de-risk construction by providing a platform where contractors get to report progress of their work, submit request for a payment and receive payment all via a secured platform without a need for in-person inspections. Thus, speeding up payments and increasing velocity of construction projects, while decreasing fraud and risk.

3. What technology is being used (please be specific)?
Current stack is Python (Django) and React. Mobile is React Native for (iOS and Android). AWS.

4. Your responsibilities:
 - Working with product and engineering to define requirements
 - Work with US-based product team to understand “the big picture”
 - Writing stories and tracking them on Jira
 - Monitor timely delivery of features by the engineering team
 - Assess delivery risks. Knowing what and when things will be released.
 - Own roadmap for team and be able to answer what are we working on 
  next and why.
- Work with engineering to get estimates
 - Drive prioritization
 - Own quality of the product


5. Skills
- Jira expert
 - Deep understanding of LEAN and AGILE
 - Advanced english
 - Understand what APIs are and how to use them.
 - Communication - need to be able to deliver message to team (verbal, video, written)
 - Focus on outcomes. Understand what is actually important and how do we get to it.

6. How are we (as a company / product) different from others? Why should I work on this project?
We give a lot of flexibility and creativity options. Ability to bring latest technologies, as applicable. We are early stage start-up, so you get to mold your future here.

7. How old is this product / project? What stage is it currently at?
We are about 18 month old company and we have an initial set of customers and more are on the way. We are seed funded and going to be raising funds soon.

8 Where are the people making technical / architectural decisions based?
The role is reporting to CTO of the company, who is based in California, US. With that said, for this role you will be given enough freedom to make those decisions.

9. What is the composition of the existing team?
2 FE, 2 BE, 1 QA. 1 PM in CA. We are hiring more.

10. Profile
- 3–4 years working as business analyst or product manager
- start-up experience is plus
- Handled teams of 5–8 engineers
- FinTech is a plus
- “AI Strategy” is a plus

11. How does the team interact?
Slack, Zoom.

12. How is the relationship between the company and the developer formalized?
We would have a formal contract in EN and UA languages. Approved in UA.