Product Manager

About VitroLabs: VitroLabs, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Milpitas California, is a biotech company developing a scalable tissue engineering platform for the efficient and environmentally friendly production of leather from only a few cells.  Combining advanced tissue engineering processes with proprietary advances to achieve commercial scale, VitroLabs is on a mission to produce cell cultivated leather that achieves the look, feel and performance of traditional leather without compromise. The composition of the material achieves the complexity of traditional hides without the need to go to animals as an ongoing source of hides. The process is more environmentally sustainable and favorable for animal welfare than that which is used to produce traditional leather.   About the role:

As our first Product Manager, you will help guide our product roadmap and product goal execution to allow VitroLabs to bring the first cultivated leather to the market. This is an exciting opportunity to develop our Product Management function.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will promote innovation, rapid iteration, and lead future product concept ideation by managing, documenting, and communicating product versions, release criteria, roadmapping processes, and other product-related content and processes.  

About you:

You're a data-driven product expert who is familiar with working in fast-paced, highly-technical environments. You enjoy solving complex problems and have the skills to guide elaborate product projects from start to finish. You have knowledge or a developing interest in cellular agriculture, tissue engineer, and/or deep tech start ups.

Responsibilities:

• Work in close collaboration with our R&D leadership team to determine product release criteria and maintain product-related technical content including version control
• Work with the executive team in managing the company roadmap process and formalizing their functional roadmaps
• Communicate roadmap updates with our internal team and external partners
• Coordinate with marketing and other internal functions to provide content for their needs: website, LCA, legal projects, etc
• Identify business partnership opportunities by understanding our markets and our platform capabilities
• Communicate effectively with R&D team to clarify product targets and help measure the impact of their experiments on product success
• Give impactful presentations describing the quality and benefits of our products to customers and investors 

Qualifications & Skills:

• Thorough understanding of processes involved in managing complex products, i.e. data analysis, roadmap development, resource and time management, risk evaluation, etc.
• Experience creating detailed powerpoint presentations and slides 
• Strong project management skills
• Experience writing technical product content and communicating it to all audiences
• Experience working with multiple software tools for project management, word processing, powerpoint, etc

Compensation:

• $125,000-140,000 annually

Benefits

• 90-100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental care
• Flexible Spending Account/ Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Basic Life insurance & Long Term Disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• 401K (Employer matching)

Perks

• Onsite employer sponsored lunches (3 days each week)
• Fully stocked kitchen (snacks responsibly sourced)
• Team happy hours and regularly scheduled table tennis, foosball, and cornhole matches

DISCLAIMER:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by incumbents assigned to this job. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the functions, responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position, and VitroLabs Inc retains the discretion to modify functions, responsibilities, duties and skills at any time, including modifying the time devoted to such activities, deleting activities and assigning other activities. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  VitroLabs Inc is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities without regard to race, color, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), age, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.