Associate Product Manager

Garuda Ventures; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Option Plan

Team outings

Paid holidays

Flexible Friday

401K

Job summary

First Resonance seeks an Associate Product Manager to help build innovative software solutions and grow a career in product management. The role emphasizes customer experience, adoption, and working with cross-functional teams to deliver features that meet user needs.

You will partner with Engineering, Design, Customer Success, and Sales to translate feedback into tangible product improvements and ensure successful onboarding for new customers.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in product management, product engineering, solutions engineering, or manufacturing engineering.
• Customer-centric mindset with empathy for users and onboarding-focused mindset.
• Strong execution skills with ability to manage tasks and meet deadlines.
• Analytical mindset with ability to use data to drive decisions.
• Familiarity with AI tools for drafting specifications and organizing feedback.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to lead customer-facing meetings.
• Growth mindset and eagerness to learn product management disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Interact directly with new customers to ensure strong onboarding and early success, translating feedback into product improvements.
• Own defined product areas related to user onboarding; ensure backlog is prioritized with clear user stories.
• Work with senior product leaders to break down adoption barriers into actionable tasks.
• Serve as primary contact for Engineering and Design on assigned features; collaborate with Customer Success and Sales.
• Use data and user feedback to track feature success and suggest iterative improvements.
• Participate in agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Skills

PM experience

Customer-centric

Execution focus

Analytical mindset

AI tooling familiarity

Communication

Growth mindset

Job description

First Resonance is seeking an Associate Product Manager to help build innovative software solutions. This role is designed for a professional who is ready to grow their career in product management and is passionate about customer experience and product adoption.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Customer Onboarding & Advocacy: Interact directly with new customers to ensure strong onboarding and early success. Support user research sessions and customer interviews, translating user feedback into product improvements to ensure features meet customer needs.
• Feature Execution & Delivery: Take ownership of defined product areas related to user onboarding, ensuring the backlog is prioritized and that the engineering team has clear, actionable user stories and requirements.
• Problem Solving: Work with senior product leaders to break down customer adoption barriers into manageable product tasks and functional solutions.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact for Engineering and Design on your assigned features. Collaborate directly with Customer Success and Sales to ensure a smooth transition for new customers and that new releases are easily understood.
• Data-Informed Contributions: Use data and user feedback to track the success of launched features and suggest iterative improvements based on actual usage patterns.
• Product Rituals: Participate in and help facilitate agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• 2 - 4 years of experience in product management, product engineering, solutions engineering, or manufacturing engineering.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Deep empathy for users and a strong desire to interact directly with new customers to understand their goals, challenges, and workflows during the onboarding phase.
• Strong Execution Skills: Proven ability to manage tasks effectively, meet deadlines, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders.
• Analytical Mindset: Ability to use data to understand problems and a willingness to learn advanced product analytics tools to monitor user activation.
• Familiarity with Modern Tools: Proficiency in (or a strong desire to learn) leveraging AI tools for drafting specifications, organizing feedback, and streamlining the product development process.
• Communication: Clear verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical team members and confidently lead customer-facing meetings.
• Growth Mindset: A proactive approach to learning the discipline of Product Management and building great software.

Desired Qualifications

• Foundational experience working within an Agile/Scrum framework.
• Experience in a customer-facing role
• Basic understanding of how web applications work (e.g., an interest in how APIs, JSON, or data flow works between systems).
• Passion for technology and a desire to improve the lives of the people using complex software tools.
• Strongly Desired: Experience working on the manufacturing floor. Experience as a manufacturing engineer is highly desired.

Benefits & Perks

• Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Employee Stock Option Plan.
• Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.
• Paid holidays, sick days.
• Flexible Friday and PTO.
• 401K.

First Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.

First Resonance participates in E-Verify. As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.

Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.

First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes space exploration, electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery.