Senior Product Manager, Remix
Designer Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech companies using design to improve health, sustainability, or prosperity for people. It backs founding teams, particularly those with design backgrounds, across sectors like fintech, healthcare, climate tech, and developer tools.
About Designer Fund
Designer Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in tech companies leveraging design to drive positive outcomes in health, sustainability, and financial prosperity. Its portfolio spans a wide range of sectors including financial infrastructure (Stripe), preventative health (Omada), collaborative tools (Notion), developer tools (Netlify), product management (Linear), payroll and benefits (Gusto), design tools (Framer), and healthcare infrastructure (Commure), among dozens of other companies across fintech, climate tech, healthcare, EdTech, and AI. The firm also runs 'Designer Founders,' a community and platform highlighting designers who have gone on to found and lead companies, reflecting its focus on backing design-driven founders and design-centric startups from early stages through growth and acquisition.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead a product that helps public transit planners improve their communities, joining the Remix team to work on market-leading transit planning software used in hundreds of cities around the globe. You will conduct frequent customer interviews and track customer requests to understand the needs of transit and transportation planners. You will synthesize these needs into a product strategy and prioritization framework with clear, measurable goals, securing buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders. You will work closely with engineering and design teams to scope, design, build, and iterate on features that advance this strategy, and partner with marketing and success teams to communicate and roll out new products to customers. You will measure results, learn, and iterate, while staying current with industry trends to drive innovation. This role is based in NYC.
Requirements
- At least 5-7 years of experience as a product manager or de facto product manager for a software product
- Ability to break down complex logical and technical concepts and find product-oriented solutions to divergent customer requests
- Ability to quickly and independently learn about new, highly technical and specialized domains
- Natural empathy for users and instincts for what makes a great software product
- Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable with ambiguity, with a bias for action
- Deeply collaborative approach to work
Responsibilities
- Understand transit and transportation planners' needs through frequent customer interviews and tracked customer requests
- Synthesize needs into a product strategy and prioritization framework with clear measurable goals
- Get buy-in from cross-functional stakeholders
- Work closely with engineering and design teams to scope, design, build, and iterate features
- Work with marketing and success teams to communicate and roll out new products to customers
- Measure results, learn, and iterate
- Stay current with industry trends to drive innovation and prepare the team for emerging challenges
Benefits
- Free medical plans
- 401K matching