Group Product Manager - Integrations Platform

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 34 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

Afresh is a mission driven startup with an ambitious vision for revolutionizing our food systems: we’re enabling grocers to intelligently manage their fresh food supply chain, making fresh food more sustainable and available to all. As the Group Product Manager for Integration Platform, you’ll be a critical leader responsible for much of our mission’s success. You’ll own the vision and strategy of our next generation Data Platform, driving scalable integrations with customers and effectively capturing and processing fresh data from grocers at all levels of technical maturity. Join Afresh, and build the future of our food systems with us. In this role you will: 

• Own the product strategy and execution of our data ingestion platform including our data model, data pipelines, relevant user interfaces, and data monitoring capabilities.
• Communicate both the business and technical rationale behind your decisions. Evangelize your vision and excite others with where you want to take your product.
• Work cross-functionally with our Deployment and Customer Success Teams, Engineering and Design to realize our product vision by taking products from conception to launch.
• Through user research and data analysis, develop user stories and product requirements, engage in usability and prototype testing, and define and monitor success metrics for maximal impact.

Skills and experience

• 10+ years of product management overall, with 2+ years related to data powered products and/or data infrastructure.
• Experience managing or mentoring other product managers.
• A background in engineering, data analytics, data science and/or cloud-based data solutions, with extensive knowledge of data extraction, data mapping, data wrangling, data processing and data ingestion concepts and processes.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather data, both qualitative and quantitative, emerge with insights, and make and communicate well-reasoned decisions.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, with ability to bring clarity to complexity and communicate customer needs, architectural requirements, and product goals across cross-functional teams
• Experience as a leader with proven ability to collaborate and influence others in a highly cross-matrixed environment
• Experience creating product roadmap(s) from conception to launch, driving product vision, defining launch strategy and leading design discussions.

The above represent attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.

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 $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.

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.

Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under "Skills and experience" for reference.