Product Manager

About the role

As a first hire member of the Product Management team, you will work with a cross-functional team to plan, design, and develop new features focused on the core experience for our users. 

You will participate in the full lifecycle of product development, including conducting research & discovery to understand our members’ problems, developing a product roadmap, being the owner of the PDR (Product Development Requirements) and the RFC (Request for Comments), running sprint planning meetings and standups, and collaborating with partner teams to deliver a cohesive product experience. You’ll partner with design to come up with solutions that makes money feel simple and approachable. You’ll define and analyze metrics that measure product success & health. You’ll guide other Product Owners, and help lead a highly functioning team. Most importantly, you’ll challenge the status quo and inspire people toward a unified outcome.

What's Firstbase.io?

Firstbase is building an all-in-one Company OS to help define how founders across the globe launch, manage and grow their businesses.

More than twenty thousand founders from over two hundred countries have used our products: Firstbase Start to launch a company, Firstbase Agent and Firstbase Mailroom to manage ongoing compliance, and Firstbase Loop to get access to financial services in one click. We are building the future of company management.

Firstbase is backed by Y Combinator & our team, investors, and advisors include people from Apple, Gusto, Carta, Wise, Plaid, and many other great companies.

Why you should join

Our team is dedicated to building products & solving some of the startups' hardest problems, with particular focus on:

• Democratizing access to financial infrastructure
• Automating tasks every founder faces when running a business
• Making tools and resources more accessible to everyone, everywhere
• Building integrated solutions for founders and removing friction
• Delivering opportunity to traditionally overlooked founders and companies
• Democratizing access to knowledge

Join us on a mission to increase the number of growing companies.

Who are we looking for

We are looking for risk-takers with diverse experience able to provide fearless feedback.

You will have the following responsibilities

• Lead the full product development lifecycle for key consumer-facing features that impact that impact our founders lives and our core business
• Collaborate with a team of designers, engineers, and analysts to identify opportunities for new product experiences and improvements
• Conduct customer research to deeply understand our members’ financial problems and anxieties to inform future product development
• Drive team execution by defining roadmap epics, specing feature stories, and overseeing the implementation and development
• Collaborate with our growth and business operation teams to plan and run experiments to learn and optimize our product experiences
• Identify KPI’s used to inform the product roadmap and measure success to drive product iteration

Minimum requirements

• Strong consumer product and user experience instincts - you have a knack for understand what people want and makes an experience meet and exceed their expectations
• Radical thinking paired with strong execution - can envision a world different than the status quo with the ability to articulate a clear path to get there
• While you can dream big, you also know when and how to ruthlessly prioritize and ship quickly in order to learn and iterate
• Creative problem solver - able to identify real obstacles and viable solutions
• Self-motivated, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Not hesitant to get hands dirty and do whatever is necessary to ensure success
• Highly technical, with experience in building products highly dependent of http interaction, garnering respect from engineers
• 4+ years of product management experience
• Experience in a B2B and B2B company
• Comfortable getting into the weeds on a variety of technical issues
• Ability to execute in a fast-paced and fluid startup environment
• Has worked with varied teams and multiple stakeholders to launch features

Some perks you will enjoy

• Competitive salary & amazing equity package

We lean on some of the best market data to ensure that we offer the most competitive compensation.

• Hybrid work environment

We work both remotely & from our offices in New York City in São Paulo – optimizing for collaboration while providing flexibility to team members.

• PTO + birthday off

We offer flexibility to allow people to relax and recharge whenever they need it.

• Build your ideal work setup

We understand that how you work is extremely important, so we provide a stipend to set yourself up for success here at Firstbase.

• Health benefits

Firstbase offers health insurance reimbursements to both US and international team members.

• Learning & development

We provide a stipend together with resources to help people grow and develop in their careers

• Amazing quarterly bonuses

Every team member at Firstbase gets a bonus calculated based on personal KPIs and company growth.

The stack

Our product is built using PHP, Symfony, Vue ,PostgreSQL, AWS. We also use Redis, Vue Router, Vuex, Docker Compose, Docker, GitLab CI, and Graylog, and some third-party API's like Stripe. We use Slack, Clubhouse, Notion, Whimsical, Figma, and G Suite to collaborate and build together.

If you think you’re unqualified or don’t meet all the requirements for this role, we encourage you to still apply. We celebrate diverse candidates, adjacent experiences, and simply put, good people who want to build great things. If that’s you, then we’d love to meet.