Associate Product Manager
About Ruggable:
Ruggable is a Los Angeles-based, venture-backed, rapidly growing e-commerce startup that is disrupting the $7B rug industry and revolutionizing the market for residential rugs. Our patented 2-Piece Rug System allows you to remove the top layer of your rug and wash it in your home washing machine, offering an affordable, stylish and convenient solution for young families, pet owners, and busy individuals. We're a small, entrepreneurial team with big ambitions. We have a strong brand, established traction, and amazing advisors fueling our steady growth. This is an opportunity to get in at the ground floor and solve for complex challenges, while charting your own career.
Job Summary:
We are looking for an Associate Product Manager who will oversee the design, development, launch and iteration of Ruggable’s operations apps. The Associate Product Manager will be a foundational member of the Operations team and serve as a key player in Ruggable’s growth. The position will be based either in our headquarters in Los Angeles, CA or also Chicago, IL.
What You’ll Do:
- Play an integral role in defining the short-term and long-term technology strategy for Ruggable’s suite of products.
- Determine key KPIs for the team and drive those metrics to the next level.
- Oversee planning, execution, testing, and overall success of technical projects.
- Work directly with engineers to launch new products and features, test performance, and iterate quickly meanwhile bridging the gap with other key stakeholders.
- Work cross-functionally with leaders across operations to create processes that solve complex challenges and are built to scale
What You’ll Need to Have:
Required:
- Technical Background (Bachelor’s Degree: computer science, or mechanical/industrial engineering, business or related field)
- 1-3+ years of product management experience at a consumer tech company
- Proficiency in the Atlassian Suite: Jira, Confluence, OpsGenie
- Background in managing and leveraging a wide variety of third party systems (Shopify, Optimizely, Heap, LogRocket, Google Analytics etc.)
- Ability to write clear UAT scenarios and/or acceptance criteria
- Feel comfortable using SQL to quickly analyze different datasets to drive key KPIs
- Ability to quickly mock up product ideas using Figma, Sketch or another design software
- Product Owner Certification is a plus
- Define and drive the operations technology vision and roadmap for Ruggable’s operations technology team
- Comfortable storytelling the “Why” of a feature and/or epic to developers
- Experience writing stories, specifications and partnering closely with technology teams, running backlog groomings and prioritizing sprints
- Ability to define clear success criteria for testing and lead UAT and Beta launches with key users
- Experience understanding and analyzing data pipelines, algorithms, apis and automated systems
- Exceptional communication skills, with ability to collaborate with engineers, designers and functional stakeholders; proven ability to provide the voice of the customer
- Strong critical thinking skills and a strategic approach to problem-solving
- Self-starters who thrive in a fast-paced, unstructured environment
- Comfortable looking beyond the backlog to create new opportunities
At Ruggable, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Ruggable is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We proudly recruit and hire a diverse workforce and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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