Senior/Principle Product Manager
As the first Senior Product Manager at Mixlab, the friendly custom veterinary compounding pharmacy startup, you’ll have an amazing opportunity to lay a new foundation for a platform that creates a delightful end-to-end experience for veterinarians, our pharmacists and pet parents. This is an ambitious role for a detail-oriented, self-starting Product Management leader who wants to play a key role in our future success as a leading pet care company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Own our product development processes:
- Translate product strategy into an actionable roadmap
- Work with engineering, UX and design to deliver a great product
- Facilitate communication between different teams throughout the development process
- Write stories and product requirement documents
- Manage sprints, projects, resourcing and timeline
- Prioritize tickets while managing and communicating trade-offs to CXO
- QA and approve features before release
- Manage releases - write release notes, coordinate release timing, communicate updates to employees, and help train them if necessary
- Manage and help debug bug tickets
- Manage and track feature requests
- Partner with UX, design, and engineering to define KPI’s, user needs, and features to deliver a delightful product
- Track performance and present data analysis to CXO
- Work closely with UX to conduct research, create user flows, personas and perform user-testing
Own our product strategy:
- Provide insights into product, technology and market trends
- Work directly with CXO, CEO, National Director of Sales and VP of Ops to define goals and manage progress
- Manage software integration with partners
- Translate and execute product roadmap for our multiple platforms and tools
- Assist in onboarding employees onto internal platforms and tools
- Run retrospectives with the digital team and present report to CXO
ABOUT YOU:
- You have worked 5+ years in a product management role
- An engineering/technical background preferred
- You have the ability to work on multiple products at a time, and determine product prioritization, while managing trade-offs by collaborating with internal stakeholders and understanding user feedback
- You have experience using agile methodologies to deliver products and technologies
- You have experience in developing both systems and processes at scale
- You have excellent communication skills whether it’s with internal teams, customers, or partners
- You are humble - you are constantly looking to improve and ask for help when you need it
- You are resourceful – you are a self-starter and know how to figure things out
- You are reliable – you take pride in your work and gets things done
- You are based in New York and are comfortable coming into the office at least a few days a week for work (even in today’s day and age - we are an essential business!)
- You are able to work effectively remotely
- You have experience working with an off-shore engineer team
- You L-O-V-E pets and share our passion to provide better, personalized care for all pets
About Mixlab
Mixlab launched in the fall of 2017 to make the pet pharmacy experience delightful for veterinarians and pet parents. In just over a year, we’ve established trusted partnerships, and friendships, with veterinarians and pet parents across NY, NJ and CT. We focus on quality and delivering the best customer experience - check out our Instagram and 5 star reviews across Google, Yelp, and Facebook! We are venture backed and have just closed a sizable amount of funding from early backers of companies like Facebook, LinkedIn and Slack. We will be rapidly growing the team so that we can give all pets the personalized care they deserve.