INTRODUCTION
Out of the Blue’s AI-powered revenue-optimization platform helps eCommerce brands drive top-line revenue growth and drive down costs by reducing revenue loss, leakages and missed revenue capture opportunities. We are looking to solve business problems using innovative approaches using AI - Gen AI and older AI techniques like forecasting, root-cause analytics, etc. Our innovative approach and advanced technology based approaches set us apart in delivering timely and impactful data insights.
Our founding team is from Google, eBay & Paypal and alumni from Stanford and Berkeley with funding from SF-based investors. We are a San Francisco Bay Area-based startup with an additional location in Pune, India.
THE ROLE
Join our early-stage startup, as a Product Manager who is competent in both business as well as technology to drive the customer experience of a new category-creating and ground-breaking product in the Data Analytics space.
The ideal candidate is someone who can think strategically as well as execute frugally by focusing on customer-centric MVP at all times
He/she should be comfortable working with both executives as well as engineers to create and deliver innovative, visionary, and customer-focused experiences.
HARD SKILLS
Demonstrated track record of launching new products and features end-to-end, from research, planning, implementation, and launch to analysis and iteration (worked at a start-up / handled a project from scratch at a large company).
Strong Product Management capability - Ability to convert plans and requirements into on-time, quality releases working in tandem with the engineering team
Problem-Solving Ability - Ability to solve complex problems by breaking them down into simple, easy to consume components that are minimal + viable (MVP)
Data Analytics experience - the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and transform data to provide actionable insights and data-driven decision-making. Understand importance of metrics and utilize analytics to suggest improvements
Strong Technical, and Architectural understanding of SaaS products with a modern tech stack.
SOFT SKILLS
Extremely motivated and driven professional who is a self-starter with experience of working in an early stage VUCA start-up environment.
Take ownership of the product from Day 1 & learn as you go
Extreme Customer-First Mindset - Ability to identify & define solutions that ensure utility, usability & business impact to customers.
Strong Stakeholder Influencing & Engagement skills to ensure inputs, feedback and ideas are taken from all stakeholders
Decision-making ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks with minimal direction
Extremely detail-oriented, especially in writing requirements that are ready for implementation.
Agile mindset & approach to building new features whilst ensuring the resilience of existing ones.
WHAT EXCITES US?
Strategic thinkers who connect industry-wide insights to inform product vision and strategies
Strong ownership & Co-conspirators who enjoy working with the team to develop new approaches for Out of the Blue
Low ego and high credibility
Has worked across time zones globally
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of industry experience specifying, building, and supporting large-scale distributed analytics systems in production.
Engineering/CS undergrad degree and some experience writing software in the past
Ability to make smart features vs. time-to-market trade-offs by using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value
Write detailed product requirements (PRDs, Jira stories) that reduce iterations with engineering to build features.
Ability to define & measure metrics for developed features to understand customer usage, suggesting improvements to exceed customer outcomes
As a member of the v1.0 launch team, you will shape this entire product from the early stages backed by a strong product aesthetic. This is the “early ideation and creation phase” of a startup as it gets – as autonomous as it gets – as FUN as it gets – if you thrive on the energy of creating something out of nothing.