Founding Product Manager
Palo Alto, CA
Product – General /
Full-time /
On-site
What is Fizz
Fizz is a social app that allows students to connect with their campus. Each Fizz community has a private and moderated feed of anonymous posts, authored by verified students, providing the most entertaining, relatable, and interesting conversations about student life.
Students can post questions, memes, polls, and chat with other verified students while maintaining control over their identity and privacy. Fizz communities prioritize safety, authenticity, and inclusion through community-based moderation.
Founded by two Stanford dropouts, Fizz is currently expanding to colleges across the US with a mission to redefine the “social network” in a time when legacy platforms lack authenticity and are filled with curated highlight reels.
What we’ve done
We first launched Fizz at Stanford in July 2021 and have since seen >95% of undergraduates join the app, half of which use Fizz every day. Since then, we have raised over $41 million from NEA, Owl Ventures, and Lightspeed, built a rock-solid engineering team with decades of experience at top tech companies, and expanded Fizz to be the dominant community platform at 200+ colleges.
Where we’re going
Our 2024 goals are twofold: rapidly expand to all US universities and prove that we can achieve scale in markets beyond college. As our first product management hire, you will be responsible for owning product strategy as we build brand new user experiences for our existing markets and new markets.
We are open to candidates of all experience levels who are hungry to build.
Responsibilities
- Work very closely with the founders, engineers, and marketing/community teams to imagine, build, and rollout new product experiences from 0 to 1
- Develop a deep understanding of the social fabric of college communities, gen-z needs, and pain points to create user-centric features that enhance the user experience
- Use analytics to translate insights about user behavior and content into product direction
Qualifications
- Strong grasp on the psychology of social products with an extreme passion to empathize with the needs of college students
- Prior experience building and deploying products from 0 to 1
- Ability to balance intuition with insights from data to form opinionated beliefs about product
$150,000 - $200,000 a year
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