Technical Program Manager - Data

about 2 years ago
Full time role
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Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh ...

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Job Description

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!

About the Role

  • Own end to end management of engineering effort in customer integrations into the Afresh Platform
  • Develop a birds eye view of tasks, resources, timelines, and dependencies for new customer integrations across both engineering and customer facing teams
  • Provide cross-functional visibility into schedules and planning, thereby managing expectations and resources, and regulating stakeholder inputs as needed
  • Check in regularly with engineers and stakeholders to understand, flag, and remove roadblocks and inefficiencies
  • Identify inefficiencies in the integration process and interface with appropriate teams to resolve and prioritize
  • Build reliable and predictable standardized operational processes for the new customer integrations as we scale to onboarding several customers in parallel through designing, testing, and implementing process improvements
  • Facilitate effective communication both within the team and with external parties, including leading regular team meetings and providing readouts to company leadership
  • Partner with engineering leadership to implement a shift toward scalable, planning-focused, process-minded culture

 

Skills and Experience 

  • We are looking for someone who: 
    • Is organized, has great attention to detail, and is a creative problem solver
    • Has a solution focussed and action oriented mindset 
    • Able to be effective in an ambiguous environment and drive teams towards their goals
    • Able to adapt in a dynamic environment and shifting gears quickly as priorities change
    • Able to build effective relationships across the organization and has strong interpersonal skills and EQ
    • Tech-savvy with ability/interest in learning new tools
    • Is an excellent communicator and able facilitate and mediate communication across a diverse team
  • The candidate should have a strong commercial mindset, is able to effectively 80/20 to unblock, but also manage long term quality solutions.

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.

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