Product Manager
EqualsWe’re hiring our first Product Manager at Equals. This is an opportunity to exercise broad ownership over a reimagining of one of the most important software products in software history–the spreadsheet. For the first PM we’re looking for someone who is high-agency, high-taste, and opinionated. This role reports directly to the CEO and will collaborate with our small but experienced design and engineering team.
You will be responsible for:
Doing your own research. You talk to customers a lot! You talk to potential customers a lot. You know this is one of the most important things you do.
Our roadmap. You assemble a roadmap from your strong, well-informed opinions about what the next most important problems to solve are. These problems are the result of synthesizing customer feedback, company strategy, technical constraints, and your own view of the future.
Defining problems. You round out problems by going deeper and doing your own targeted research. For important projects you produce a product requirements doc that defines the problem and the scope/shape of the likely solution.
Shaping solutions. You give feedback throughout the design and engineering of a solution, ensuring we are solving the intended problem.
Owning product success. You own and take responsibility for everything shipped. This means you know whether we solved the problem (using metrics and by talking to customers) we set out to, and if not have a plan for what to do next.
Informing long-term strategy. Together with the CEO you will help inform our longer term direction. You provide well informed opinions on where we are today and are able to combine those with well considered bets about the future of Equals and technology.
You might be the right person if:
You have 10+ years of experience building products. You were a designer, engineer, or founder before transitioning to PM. You have owned a roadmap before in some capacity.
You are high-agency. You shape what happens, rather than let what happens shape you.
You are high-taste. You have strong, well-informed opinions about the attributes of good products and how to build them.
You get energy from talking to customers and prospects.
You know a lot about software, technology, and design.