UX Product Manager / Product Designer

Isthmus is not just a marketplace, it's a community. And more than a business, we are a movement that will shift how we consume and connect with others.

We closed our first institutional round, launched our Beta, and are now looking for a user experience-focused Product Manager or Product Designer to join us in building our native app in the marketplace and community space.

• Fully remote 🏝️
• High ownership 👨🏽‍🍳
• Social impact ✨
• Build a company 🛠️

About us 🦄

Isthmus App is a community platform that makes it easy and fun to discover, connect, and share items with like-minded groups. Think new parents on the hunt for baby gear, outdoor gear fanatics, lovers of slow fashion and vintage, and more.

Group leaders can also finally earn for all they do to build vibrant, curated, and trusted sharing communities. It's time for a better way to buy, sell, and trade together.

Today, we’re on the path toward product-market fit with our first beta community. The product is currently centered around this community and trading.

The role 🏄‍

As we’re gaining traction with users, we’re ready to bring on a product person to continue to build out Isthmus’ vision and direction. You’ll work directly with the CPO to plan and build upcoming features for Isthmus. You’ll take complex and ambiguous problems and distill them into elegant and actionable product solutions from beginning to end. You’ll also partner with the development team to manage the agile development cycle, including testing to ensure we are always delivering a high-quality app to users.

Responsibilities

• Distill complex user challenges into simple and elegant solutions via an iterative process. You will take a problem and push from ideation to high fidelity design via a user-centered design process: user interviews, usability testing, surveying, prototyping, etc.
• Work directly with the CPO/CTO and development team to iteratively explore, plan, prototype, test, design, and launch new features and experiences.
• Manage a weekly sprint cycle, including partnering with the development team to test and triage issues before weekly deployments to deliver a high-quality app to users.
• Understand the breadth and depth of our communities and users (their pain points, unmet needs) via user testing and outreach, and advocate for them too.
• Join the founding team in setting design and product culture in the organization.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience as a UX Product Manager or Product Designer (bonus for startup experience)
• Experience in an agile, iterative product team working directly with developers
• You’re a creative thinker: you have curiosity for users and are open to innovative ways to solve their problems
• Experience with Figma, Jira, and Asana
• Nice to haves:
  • Experience working as both a PM and designer
  • Working out of ET/CT
  • UI design experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary + equity package
• Healthcare and dental stipend
• Mental Wellness stipend

We're gaining traction 🏃‍

• We have shipped and are currently iterating our MVP Isthmus App, currently onboarding our first beta community that’s showing high user retention and customer love.
• We have 10+ more top communities ready (with 80,000+ members in total) and waiting to onboard to our platform.
• Our investors include Precursor Ventures, On Deck's Runway Fund, Allison Barr Allen (COO of Fast), Bo Ren (Director of Early Stage Startups at Silicon Valley Bank), Henry Davis and Bryan Mahoney (Co-founders of Chord and former COO + CTO of Glossier), Jerod Mayo (New England Patriots Coach), Kate Parker (COO of Transcend), Matt Verghese (Director of Product at Twitch), Russ Heddleston (CEO of DocSend), Ryan Caldbeck (Chairman/Founder of CircleUp), and more.