Thursday, January 14, 2016

[KITlist-Tech] Software Project Manager (Santa Cruz, San Jose, CA)

 

Please direct your responses to: schwstartup@gmail.com


We are a hardware startup made up of key engineers from Apple. We are looking for strong, full-time engineers to start immediately and help launch our first consumer product.

SW Product Manager (iOs, android, Cloud)

Responsibilities:

Drive feature definition

Gather consensus from design, engineering, marketing, and execs

Document working product definition or concepts at the right level of specificity given maturity

Present tradeoffs in customer experience, schedule, implementation resources, risk

Track open definition items and next steps to closing

Contribute to QA and field test plans to validate design goals

Managing implementation strategy and schedule planning

Strategically divide up the full scope of the product into sequenced iterations.

Decompose high level features into discrete and trackable tasks with the team.

Work with the design and engineering teams to estimate and track target dates for each milestone, align to cross functional dependencies (marketing, hardware builds, etc)

Look for opportunities to reduce scope in each iteration

Highlight dependencies that are blocking progress and help unblock work

Prioritize bugs (based on effort and user impact) and pulling into iterations

Gather consensus from exec, design, engineering, marketing on the plan. Facilitate conversations around decisions

Track progress towards each milestone

Track top risk items and strategically managing steps to mitigate

Include external resources at times as well as internal teams for design and development

Specific first product scope

Web/eCommerce

Manage development of our launch website and e-commerce store

Manage external development firm with internal engineering support

Drive definition and manage implementation of key marketing metrics

Develop transition plan for internal dev ownership 6 months after launch

Participate in the design process of our external design firm alongside internal design and marketing

Cloud

Manage definition and development of our mobile application backend system

Support core app functionality

Product engagement metrics

Hardware system health metrics

Marketing metrics and automation

Account system

Telematics data store

New feature concepts

Data analytics to analyze product performance and suggest improvements

Characteristics of an ideal candidate

Technical background, engineering degree or equivalent work experience

Experience in shipping well-received products

Empathetic and focused on being a customer advocate

Experience collaborating with designers, engineers, marketing, and QA and adding value in a schedule-driven environment

Deep knowledge in the nuances of other SW products (onboarding flows, interfaces, conventions etc)

Organized and detail oriented

Proactive and high energy

Main interface points for Web + Cloud

Web/Cloud engineering

App engineering

Marketing director

Outside design and development firms

HW product management

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