Senior PM

LightSource; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LightSource is building an ambitious product organization in San Francisco. As a product manager, you'll be the hub that drives cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, go-to-market, and stakeholders to build software products.

Join as a founding member and shape the product vision, gather and refine user requirements, organize multi-stage initiatives, collaborate with procurement and supply chain experts, and communicate progress across the company to customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Experience guiding a product through full lifecycle.
• Ability to analyze large data sets to drive decisions.
• Clear communication of technical information to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Discover, understand, and refine user requirements
• Define the product vision and success criteria
• Organize complex, multi-faceted initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and procurement/supply chain experts
• Work with go-to-market teams to communicate capabilities and vision
• Gather user feedback and conduct market research
• Communicate progress and strategy across the company
• Coordinate with marketers for launches and outreach
• Work directly with founders in a fast-paced environment

Skills

Product management

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Lifecycle management

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

About the role

Supply chain is broken. It's the foundation of our entire economy, but it (barely) runs on a mix of homebrewed processes duct taped to some spreadsheets and emails.

Join as one of the founding members of the LightSource product management organization. As a product manager, you'll be the hub that drives cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, go-to-market, and stakeholders to build products.

Responsibilities

• Discover, understand, and refine user requirements

• Define the product vision and the success criteria for projects

• Organize complex, multi-faceted, multi-stage initiatives that span multiple teams and multiple projects. Ensure that work is on track

• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and experts in the field of procurement and supply chain on frontier technologies

• Work with go-to-market stakeholders to communicate product capabilities and vision to prospects

• Gather user and prospect feedback and perform market research to guide product development

• Clearly communicate progress and strategy across the whole company

• Coordinate with marketers to ensure that customers are aware of and excited by launches

• Work directly with founders in a high-speed environment

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or relevant equivalent) in a STEM subject. Ideally computer science, engineering, information systems, mathematics, physics, applied sciences.

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management

• Experience managing a product through a full product lifecycle

• Understanding of compiling and analyzing large-scale complex data sets and using that to drive decision making

• Experience in clear communication of highly technical and complex information

The Team

We're a driven team, who've helped build some incredible companies (Tesla, Waymo, Google, Meta, Amazon, Dropbox, Airbnb and many more). And now we're tackling an exciting problem space ripe for disruption.

Our team is small, but our ambitions are big. So we only hire the absolute best and try to learn every day while having a lot of fun.