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Founding Product Manager

πŸ’° $140,000 - $185,000 πŸ“… 11/27/2023

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Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Developing the product roadmap working directly with the CEO to translate the vision into a thoughtful, cohesive product strategy
* Partnering closely with the VP Engineering + Head of Design to make product development hum
* Ensuring engineering has fully scoped work going into each sprint, work is groomed and planned out
* Ensuring engineering is able to fully complete work that is scheduled for a given sprint, if not able to complete their work - that risk is bubbled up immediately and planned around
* As work is pushed to staging, each completed ticket is tested before it’s moved to production
* Building and running a triage process that sits between the engineering team and customer support/ops

QUALIFICATIONS

* Background and previous experience in venture-backed consumer startups as a PM
* Passion and curiosity to learn about the travel technology space
* Ability to work with the executive team to understand the high-level strategy of the business and how it informs projects
* Excellent communication skills
* Organized and data-driven

DISQUALIFICATIONS

* No consumer experience (i.e. only B2B)
* No startup experience (i.e. only FAANG or similar late-stage experience)

TECH STACK
Mobile: Swift (iOS)
Web: next/react, TypeScript, GraphQL
Services: Node and TypeScript
Datastores: Amazon RDS
Infrastructure: Serverless deployed to AWS Lambda

COMPANY

* Founded by former CRO & Head of Product at Resy
* Backed by Sequoia Capital and other top investors
* Currently fully-remote but clustered in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York (likely to open local offices at some point)

Safara focuses on Online Travel and Consumer. Their company has offices in Los
Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Remote. They have a small team
that's between 11-50 employees. To date, Safara has raised $9.4M of funding;
their latest round was closed on October 2022.

You can view their website at <http://safara.com> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/safara_travels) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/safaratravels).