Hybrid Founding Product Manager

at Perfect Venue

• Job title: Founding Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• First Product Manager shaping product vision and strategy at Perfect Venue. Redefining collaboration between venues and event planners for improved experiences.

Responsibilities

• User Research: Turn rough problems into well-defined product specs by deeply researching customer needs through qualitative and quantitative research.
• Product Ownership: Work closely with the Founder and team to define and articulate a clear product strategy and roadmap that aligns with the company's goals and mission.
• User-Centered Design: Deeply understand the needs of venue managers and event planners through user interviews, feedback analysis, and market research.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Monitor key performance metrics, analyze user behavior, and leverage data to inform product decisions.
• Process Creation: Establish and refine product management processes to drive efficiency and clarity as the team scales.
• Customer Advocacy: Act as the voice of the customer, ensuring their needs are consistently represented in decision-making.
• Design: Create designs based on our design system for new features.
• Engineering Team Collaboration: Work closely with the engineering team to ensure features are shipped on time and achieve the desired goals.

Requirements

• Experience: 6+ years of product management experience at early-stage B2B SaaS startups. Experience in events or hospitality industry, a plus.
• Shared Philosophy: Embrace a shared product philosophy that embraces elegant solutions (minimal, but effective), an opinionated product, 'lean startup' philosophy, and other principles we will discuss.
• Leadership: Proven track record of taking ownership of a product or major features from ideation to launch.
• User Focus: Exceptional ability to empathize with users and translate their needs into actionable product requirements.
• Analytical Thinking: Comfort with data analysis, KPIs, and metrics to drive product decisions and measure success. Ability to think strategically while executing tactically.
• Technical Aptitude: Familiarity with modern software development processes and tools (e.g., Linear, Figma, etc).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including meaningful equity you’ll actually be able to use
• Medical, vision, and dental with paid premiums for you, cost-sharing for dependents
• Flexible PTO & 401(k)
• Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family
• Hybrid 3 days in-office and frequent customer meetings