Product Design Manager

Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 6.9 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!

As a product design manager, you will work closely with leadership on Product, Engineering, and Design to define and evolve our processes and our products as well as provide your team with the framing and direction to balance discovery and ideation with delivering high impact product experiences.

What you'll be doing:

• Help build our team of talented product designers, supporting them in delivering great work and coaching and mentoring their growth.
• Partner with Product, Research, and other cross functional stakeholders to ensure the definition and delivery of meaningful, user-centric product experiences that complement or evolve our technology and operations.
• Contribute to our design culture of discovery, creativity, and user-centricity.
• Collaborate with the broader Design team to evolve a successful experience for our end-users.

What we're looking for:

• Strong alignment with our company values: humility, kindness, candor, proactivity.
• 2+ years of experience managing product design teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication to facilitate alignment and collaboration.
• Enthusiasm for leading a team working on a combination of optimization and greenfield design areas.
• Understanding and desire to mentor and support the growth and skills of a team of designers.

About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.

Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $30 million in funding from investors including Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and James McCann (former CEO Tesco, Ahold, Carrefour). In 2021, we received an Honorable Mention for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas in Food.

Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.

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.