Technical Product Manager
Los Angeles or Remote
Product /
Full-time /
In a world where many social apps measure their success by time spent online, Raya is a technology company focused on providing utility. Our iOS only app is a tool for discovery of and access to exciting people, events, opportunities and recommendations globally. We believe that by marrying great software with a membership based community built around core values of trust, creativity, and reciprocity, we can provide solutions that have heretofore been impossible.
Raya product managers should have 3+ years being the product manager working on consumer mobile products. This person will join at the early stages of the company and will have all the excitement and accountability that comes from joining a fast growing, well funded startup!
Raya’s team includes the 3rd designer of Facebook, one of the first 10 engineers at Venmo, the PM who launched the like button, the engineer who founded Flipagram and a lot of other amazing people. We prioritize learning, teamwork and love giving people the opportunity to champion big challenges and grow into better versions of themselves. A great candidate is excited to support the team's initiatives in messaging, connecting, and local based maps initiatives. They are diligent and design products with strong user empathy and deeply thoughtful product strategy. Finally, they believe in Raya’s vision, which is to enrich lives by fostering relationships through quality, in person interactions.
We offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $50 a day grubhub budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they’ve never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity. You can see more at the bottom of our careers page: https://careers.rayatheapp.com/
What You'll Do
- Be a product leader in your area by deeply understanding the needs of our customers and developing a strong product vision and strategy
- Partner with designers, engineers, and data scientists to build technology, systems, and products that redefine how our community uses our app
- Build alignment across the company on your vision, including leadership and executives
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Strongly versed in agile methodology and technical ticket writing
- The ability to clearly outline and execute the company’s product vision
- Strong product intuition and ability to motivate and inspire a team
- A team player who can collaborate and build trust with engineers, designers, data science and other cross-functional teammates
- Ability to independently initiate and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
- Communicate concisely and influence outcomes
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience managing the roadmap and shipping consumer products
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Track record of taking a consumer product to market
- Experience across the entire product lifecycle including: defining product needs, prioritization, pre/post-launch execution including A/B tests and analysis
- Experience running agile teams and processes
- Experience writing technical documentation
- Strong in projecting timelines and building roadmaps
- A passion for helping people meet using technology
- No task is too big or too small
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