Product Manager

At the strategic level, you will be responsible for

• Defining the strategy, setting clear goals, and building a roadmap that helps the team realize the product vision
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders to drive the ideation, research, design, and development of member-focused features and improvements
• Keeping the team focused and excited to solve member problems by connecting the work they do to our member's success and our larger mission
• Build alignment across the different members and teams

At the tactical level, you will be responsible for

• Conducting research to better understand members' needs
• Diving into our data to better understand how people use FetLife
• Drafting hypotheses based on what was learnt through member research, data, etc.
• Validating hypothesis and potential solutions with the community
• Conducting A/B tests to validate hypothesis and report back on findings
• Prioritizing initiatives based on potential impact, complexity, estimated cost, etc.
• Defining and breaking up projects into small and measurable iterative improvements
• Expressing requirements through job stories, acceptance criteria, and wireframes
• Removing blockers to make sure initiatives move forward smoothly
• Reviewing project outcomes, summarizing feedback, and prioritizing next steps
• Defining, tracking, and reporting on key metrics
• Supporting the product team by removing blockers

You should have 3+ years experience

• Significantly and measurably improving key metrics of a product
• Defining the strategy, setting clear goals, and maintaining roadmaps for products
• Delivering member insights via interviews, surveys, data analysis, A/B testing, etc.
• Effectively prioritizing projects based on people’s needs and potential impact
• Defining and breaking up projects into small measurable iterative improvements
• Expressing requirements through job stories, acceptance criteria, and wireframes
• Successfully launching and iterating over web or mobile products

Bonus if you have experience

• Working remotely
• Working as a contractor
• Effectively working on a small remote team

To be successful, you need to be or have

• Passionate about, and fundamentally believe in, the mission and vision of FetLife
• Goal oriented, data-driven, and follow a scientific approach to problem-solving
• Empathetic to the needs of a diverse group of members and stakeholders
• Focused on continuously working on and improving yourself and our processes
• An effective and clear written communicator and collaborator
• Outstanding project and time management skills
• Solid understanding of product design, development, and QA
• Able to use data to support your decisions
• Detail oriented with a passion for quality
• Have core overlap hours from 8-12 AM EST (2-6 PM CET)

Bonus, if you can or have

• Developed hypotheses on how to delight members
• Great judgment about people, product, and business
• Find nuggets of valuable information in a sea of data

At FetLife we

• Are 100% remote, work from multiple time zones
• Use Notion, Slack, and GitHub to collaborate
• Are community driven and work both hard and smart

Why work with FetLife

• Have your work impact millions of people
• Work with a great group of people from all over the world
• Grow as a Product Manager #BigPassionateCommunity #HighTraffic
• Gain a broader and deeper understanding of human sexuality and kink

More about FetLife

• Largest kinky social network this side of the milky way
• We focus on doing the right thing and not hockey stick shaped charts
• Have over 10 million members… and growing
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
• Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day

How we hire

• Everyone initially starts as either a part-time or full-time contractor
• If over time we both believe it's a good fit, and you're interested in something more permanent, we then will make you a more permanent offer

How to apply

• Quick introduction about yourself
• How would you organize your first four weeks at FetLife and what would you plan to accomplish each week?
• Why you believe you are the right person for this role
• Link to your LinkedIn profile -and/or- a copy of your resume in PDF format
• Availability i.e. part-time (amount of hours per week) or full-time
• Rate