Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial—the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills.
About the Role
We're looking for a Product Manager to drive our commercial hardware roadmap, from current development through customer launch to new SKUs and accessory products. This is an execution role: you'll keep the Mill Commercial program moving by staying on top of the details, following through on decisions, and making sure Engineering, Ops, and Sales stay coordinated week to week.
You'll translate field learnings, customer requirements, and engineering/cost/schedule constraints into clear product decisions and requirements. You'll be accountable for defining what the product should do and why, while partnering with Engineering, Ops, and Sales to make hard tradeoffs and deliver a successful program. You'll also work closely with the sales team to enable our design partnerships and define the product roadmap.
What You'll Do
- Define and maintain clear product requirements across the full development cycle (from current hardware phase through commercial launch) grounded in customer needs, field learnings, and business constraints
- Partner deeply with Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Firmware Engineering teams to overcome technical challenges and maintain development momentum
- Working with Industrial Design to ensure the product looks, feels, and operates the way commercial customers expect and in line with the Mill brand
- Champion for cost, user experience, serviceability, and reliability optimization
- Make and document product decisions in weekly hardware and program reviews; keep Design, Engineering, Ops, and Sales aligned on priorities and tradeoffs
- Work with Ops to synthesize field learnings into actionable product improvements, closing the loop fast between the field and engineering
- Partner with Sales to understand what early customers need, translate that into product requirements, and ensure the product is ready for deployment
- Own the product roadmap beyond Gen 1, including accessories, and work with Sales to identify what the next product needs to do to expand our market
- Surface blockers, tradeoffs, and risks to leadership with enough context to make good decisions quickly
- Define and track key performance metrics for both product development and in-market performance
What We're Looking For
- 5-7 years of product management experience; at least 3 years on hardware or electromechanical products
- Strong cross-functional executor: you can keep Eng, Ops, and Sales coordinated, and you run meetings that produce clear decisions and owners
- Technical depth: you're comfortable in a room full of engineers, and while you don't need to design the hardware you can engage substantively on tradeoffs and know when to escalate
- Experience shipping hardware: you've taken a hardware product through late-stage development, pilot, and into commercial deployment
- Field and customer experience: you've supported early deployments, you know what breaks in the real world, and you close the feedback loop fast
- Clear, direct communicator: you write tight requirements and facilitate focused reviews
Nice to Have
- Experience with commercial food service, institutional kitchens, or food waste/recycling equipment
- Experience with field-serviceable hardware or devices requiring ongoing maintenance and support
- Familiarity with IoT-connected hardware products
- Experience at an early-stage hardware startup
The estimated base salary range for this position is $185-215K, which does not include the value of benefits or a potential equity grant. A wide range of factors are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, market conditions, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs. At Mill, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role.
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of product management experience
- At least 3 years on hardware or electromechanical products
- Experience shipping hardware through late-stage development, pilot, and commercial deployment
- Experience supporting early field deployments and closing the feedback loop fast
- Technical depth; able to engage substantively with mechanical, electrical, systems, and firmware engineers
- Strong cross-functional executor; coordinate Engineering, Ops, and Sales and run decision-driven meetings
- Ability to write tight product requirements and facilitate focused reviews
- Experience with commercial food service, institutional kitchens, or food waste/recycling equipment
- Experience with field-serviceable hardware or devices requiring ongoing maintenance and support
- Familiarity with IoT-connected hardware products
- Experience at an early-stage hardware startup
Mill Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mill and has not been reviewed or approved by Mill.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as competitive for several senior technical and business roles, supported by multiple six‑figure base ranges in recent postings. Total compensation snapshots commonly cluster in the mid‑ to high‑$100Ks for individual‑contributor roles, reinforcing a generally market-competitive posture for the Bay Area.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off coverage appears broad, including paid holidays, paid sick days, flexible time off, and an unlimited vacation policy, with some company-wide time off. The overall setup signals strong flexibility for managing personal time, though day-to-day use may depend on team norms.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness programs and an FSA. The package breadth suggests a solid baseline consistent with tech-startup standards.
Mill Insights
What We Do
We’re on a mission to eliminate waste for good, starting with the food that ends up in landfills. Did you know that more than half of the food in landfills comes from home kitchens (ReFED)? And food in landfills turns into methane – which is 80x more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period (IPCC). At Mill, we’re working to turn kitchen scraps into food for chickens. This keeps food in our food system and out of landfills.
Why Work With Us
Food isn't trash. Mill keeps it from stinking up your kitchen – and the planet.
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