Product Manager

The Company: Lightyear builds software that is revolutionizing the telecom management experience for hundreds of enterprises. Lightyear’s platform helps enterprise IT teams automate telecom procurement, network inventory management, telecom bill payment, and much more, and is utilized by companies including Honeywell, Alo Yoga, Palo Alto Networks, and Louis Vuitton. Lightyear has raised nearly $50M from the first investors in Roblox, Discord, Coupang, Robinhood, and Flexport.

The Position: As a Product Manager at Lightyear, you will be responsible for researching, scoping, designing, and implementing several of our key software features and tools that are disrupting enterprise telecom. A Lightyear Product Manager wears many hats: feature scoping, design, sprint lead, customer growth / conversion (and potentially more based on how you set your role). You will sit at the intersection of customers, GTM, and engineering - coordinating the conception and delivery of our most important product ideas. We’re an early stage company, so your position will play a heavy role in defining a product that customers both need and love.

This position will be full-time and salaried with competitive cash and equity compensation. Base salary compensation will range approximately from $125,000 - $150,000 based on experience.

Responsibilities for this role include:

• Own the product vision for several key areas of Lightyear’s platform
• Engage with the customer and sales to define and optimize requirements for features
• Coordinate with engineering on feasibility, sprint planning, and shipping product
• Create a first-class UI / UX experience (with help from internal design resources)
• Help define the short, medium, and long term roadmap
• Help implement a data-driven feature discovery and prioritization process
• Coordinate with GTM and Operations to concept and drive success of pilots with prospective customers
• Be a product evangelist - develop product collateral to market product progress

Our ideal candidate:

• 2+ years experience working with enterprise or consumer software technologies as a product manager or software engineer
• Has intense curiosity and passion to deeply understand the customer and problem space, with willingness to dive in the weeds throughout the process
• Experience and enthusiasm taking product or processes from 0 to 1
• Familiarity with software dev practices used to deploy applications and data systems
• Some design skill (bonus: familiarity with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, etc.)

• Bonus: Familiarity with the telecom industry