Senior Product Manager

Company: Makespace
Location: Waterloo
Posted on: April 1, 2021

Job Description:

A new kind of storage company, MakeSpace is taking the struggle out of storage-and reinventing an antiquated industry in the process. We've designed a hassle-free experience that allows people to store and retrieve their belongings on-demand, so they can skip the whole schlep-to-a-storage-unit thing. We pick up your stuff, haul it to storage, and deliver it back when you need it. Simple as that. To support this seamless experience, we built the industry's first fully integrated system, from back-end routing to warehouse logistics, and a consumer app complete with a digital photo inventory of stored items. Our superior operations, tech, and talent enable us to be infinitely more convenient, affordable, and user-friendly than traditional self-storage. In just over 7 years, we've become a top-5 consumer-rated storage company in NYC, and expanded to 31 major cities in North America. Join us as we disrupt a $40 billion industry, and change the way people think about storage (and the stuff they store).-- The opportunity:-- As a Senior Product Manager, you will help us build new capabilities to launch additional products and services while managing and optimizing our platform for pricing, billing and other core consumer services. This year we are building brand new products across the company and this team ensures the information passed around finds the right home. Improving the integrations between applications ensures that we are making data-driven decisions. You will join the team considered the backbone of the engineering organization and have an immediate impact across the organization. Help grow our business in North America as well as internationally. You will work with the leadership team in drafting the growth strategy and directly own the roadmap, and execution of key product initiatives focused on unlocking a fast growth engine for MakeSpace. You will be responsible for connecting the product and engineering team with the rest of the company including brand, marketing, sales and data teams. You will drive strong decision-marketing through quantitative results and AB testing, and qualitative research and customer insights.-- You will:

• Collaborate with the leadership and cross-functional teams to develop a strategy for new products and pricing projects.
• Build both back-end and customer-facing solutions to make our systems more flexible.
• Elevate the company by helping us better integrate Chargebee, Zendesk, Pricing systems, Stripe, and other API Integrations.
• Establish the product experience around billing, pricing, user authentication, and replatforming.
• Drive the entire product lifecycle of a few MakeSpace products across all platforms (desktop, mobile) - from ideation, requirements gathering, design, development, and testing all the way through launch.
• Build and maintain a roadmap, defining methods and metrics for identifying success and failure, and monitoring and measuring launched products to feed takeaways back into our product development cycle.
• Make informed product decisions with quantitative and qualitative data on user behavior, research and experimentation. You will bring:
  • User-centric design principles and experimentation mindset.
  • A sense of humor and excitement for collaboration in person, over email, and on Slack.
  • Aspiration to use technology to positively transform the physical world .
  • Willingness to learn, teach, and grow beyond the current edges of your skills.
  • A product mentality - ability to define goals, consider trade-offs, prioritize, defend decisions, and drive. The perks:--
    • Fully-remote work environment
    • Generous PTO (we believe in our team having a great life outside of work)
    • Competitive parental leave policy
    • Multiple health care options with premium plans--
    • Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts & Commuter benefits--
    • Team happy hours, events, and social clubs
    • Free MakeSpace storage so you can take back your closet The company:-- MakeSpace culture is built on collaboration and innovation. There's tons of room to grow and opportunities to take initiative. You will partner with sharp, motivated teammates looking to disrupt a massive industry-and have fun while doing it. If this sounds like you, then let us know-and join a tech company that makes a concrete impact on the physical world every day!-- We are an equal opportunity employer and value a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds at our company. We are dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, color, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin. U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Completion is voluntary) Individuals seeking employment at MakeSpace are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file. Gender Please select Are you Hispanic/Latino? Please select Race & Ethnicity Definitions If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows: A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability. A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service. An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense. An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985. Veteran Status Please select Form CC-305 OMB Control Number 1250-0005 Expires 05/31/2023 Voluntary Self-Identification of DisabilityWhy are you being asked to complete this form? We are a federal contractor or subcontractor required by law to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We are also required to measure our progress toward having at least 7% of our workforce be individuals with disabilities. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had a disability. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we ask all of our employees to update their information at least every five years. Identifying yourself as an individual with a disability is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer will be maintained confidentially and not be seen by selecting officials or anyone else involved in making personnel decisions. Completing the form will not negatively impact you in any way, regardless of whether you have self-identified in the past. For more information about this form or the equal employment obligations of federal contractors under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, visit the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp . How do you know if you have a disability? You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:
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