Product Manager - Automated Ordering

As the PM for Automated Ordering for Fresh, you'll solve a genuinely hard problem that hasn't been solved before! You'll own user and market research for this area, and you'll work with beta customers, early adopters, sales and marketing to take this product area from inception to market, revolutionizing the way that fresh grocery departments work. You'll work closely with product design, user researcher, machine learning engineers, and iOS engineers to create a holistic experience that works end to end. Your ownership, attention to detail, and your obsession with outcomes will lead to both short and long term rewards: every incremental bit of accuracy you can deliver will directly result in less plastic and food waste!

What will you be doing?

• Own your product vision and roadmap of our Automated Ordering features including the ML models, end to end app experience, monitoring and reporting, and data validation.
• Communicate both the business and technical rationale behind your decisions. Evangelize your vision and excite others with where you want to take your product.
• Deeply understand the market and our customers in order to build products that deliver massive value to our customers and the broader fresh food ecosystem.
• Work cross-functionally with Business Operations, Engineering and Design to realize our product vision by taking products from conception to launch.
• Build strong relationships with partners and customers in order to inform roadmap and product prioritization.
• Develop user stories and product requirements, engage in usability and prototype testing, and define and monitor success metrics for maximal impact.

What skills and experience do you need?

• The following represent the skills and experience our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.
• 3+ years experience building customer-facing software as a Product Manager in a fast paced environment.
• Technical fluency that enables you to creatively explore possibilities and challenge constraints with engineering, with demonstrated ability to earn the respect of talented engineers.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather data, both qualitative and quantitative, emerge with insights, and make and communicate well-reasoned decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, logical reasoning, and storytelling, with proven ability to collaboratively work across a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience creating product roadmap(s) from conception to launch, driving product vision, defining go-to-market strategy and leading design discussions.
• Prefer experience with SaaS companies.

Founded in 2017, Afresh is the first A.I.-powered fresh food optimization platform for grocery chains. We have partnered with several large grocers representing hundreds of stores and >$10B in revenue. Our cutting-edge AI research has been published in top journals (e.g., ICML). We’re backed by some of the top investors in grocery and tech including Innovation Endeavors (former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s firm), Baseline Ventures (first money in Stitch Fix, SoFi, Heroku, Instagram), Food Retail Ventures, Maersk Growth, and Impact Engine.

We are building a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values: proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility. We aspire to continually grow as individuals and as an organization to live these values and realize our mission. We earnestly believe that Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by employing novel technology—and to have a ton of fun along the way.

Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law