Product Manager: Mobile
Location: US, NY, New York
Department: Product
Employment type: Full-time
Company profile: About the CompanyAviary makes the world’s best photo editor. It’s used in more than 6,000 apps, including our own, which is a Top 100 app on both iOS and Android. Each month, more than 65 million people actively use our products.The Aviary team is on a mission to democratize creativity. The company was founded by the creators of Worth1000, who have always been obsessed with the idea of turning everyone in the world into artists. We are 25 people based in New York and financially backed by leading investors including Spark Capital, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. Aviary is well positioned to lead the next generation of creative companies.Aviary has a highly team-driven company culture. Everyone in the company is great to work with and contributes meaningfully to the overall company direction. As one might expect, we are a creative group inside of work and out: whether it’s painting, improv comedy, bagpipes, or karaoke, our team members have diverse and interesting passions. We keep our culture startup-friendly to the core (ping-pong tables, free lunches and party games abound) and plan to keep it that way forever, whether we are 25 people or thousands.Why work at Aviary?We build beautiful photo editing software that can be used in any application. We're a small, creative team and we're passionate about powering the world's creativity. If you're an awesome person who wants to help us achieve that goal, we'd love to hear from you!Working with usYou'll work in a fast-paced startup environment, full of challenges and new opportunities. We can promise with complete confidence that you will never be bored.Share a workspace with a variety of creative, interesting people with a huge range of weird hobbies.Great location for commuters: our windows literally overlook Madison Square Garden. We may or may not have tried projecting our website onto MSG. (We totally did. It totally worked.)Our conference table doubles as a pool table. Plus, we have heated matches of ping pong, foosball, and Fifa to help get the creative juices flowing!PerksWe want a happy, healthy, and creative team. We know you can't have that without real work/life balance and plenty of perks. To that end, we offer:Competitive salaries, full medical/dental insurance, tons of paid vacation, and an ample budget to customize a top-notch workstation to your heart’s content.All the free coffee and snacks you can consume. Fully stocked fridge. Catered team lunches four days a week.Constant learning. Coding workshops, company-sponsored educational courses, and genius coworkers who show each other new things every day.
Description: We’re looking for an experienced product manager with a strong passion for photography and an appreciation for technology to help us develop our photo editing tools for web and mobile. You’ll work closely with our marketing, design, technology and executive teams, and you’ll get the opportunity to channel your creativity into an app used by 75 million people. You should have the ability to consider long-term product quality and vision with a focus on both monetization and user experience, while remaining flexible enough to meet the high-paced demands of a startup environment.Responsibilities:Generate ambitious and well-designed product ideas based on a balance of user needs and company strategyUnderstand the business issues and technical challenges and collaborate with teams to capture requirements for projectsDrive a product through its entire development cycle, from concept to launch, with a strong focus on details but never losing sight of the big pictureCoordinate across teams and collaborate with management, customers, partners and other staff members when neededPlan and oversee user testing and split testing, communicate with users to determine their needs and get feedback on launched projectsGather information and requirements, set and track the most relevant metrics to a product, track past projects and identify ways to optimize themStrive for perfection in the design of your features, but still work hard to release and iterateAlways remain an expert on Aviary’s applications and user experience philosophy
Requirements: Solid experience (we’re talking 2+ years) working in a product management capacity at a consumer-facing app company on both web and mobile (startup environment preferred)A strong understanding of current technologies, standards and how web and mobile ecosystems are evolving; you don’t need to be able to code, but you do need to be able to communicate with our developers effectively without a translatorLogistics and operational skills: you should be able to handle the logistics involved in a service that handles millions of users and billions of photosExcellent leadership and communication skills: you must be able to take all relevant input into consideration and then articulate the rationale behind your decisionsA strong design and usability sense driven by the ability to step into a user's shoes and advocate for them (but within the context of higher level company strategy and goals)An entrepreneurial spiritExamples of consumer-facing products that you’ve worked on and launched in the past (a mix of both web and mobile is preferred)Experience with data-driven product development, and the ability to use data to make intelligent decisions
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