Senior Director of Product
Because Market

Because Market is re-engineering everyday consumer products and delivering them via a leading e-commerce subscription to older adults as if they were our own family. Their team consists of seasoned execs from Uber, eBay, WeWork and RH, and are backed by Index and Khosla Ventures.

Because Market was created after their founders spent countless hours tracking down supplies for their grandparents. They had to visit multiple stores and often left empty handed when needed products were out of stock. They knew they could do better for their family, and all older adults.

The Role:

Because is looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Senior Direct of Product inspired by their mission to bring better health and wellness to older adults. In your role as the leader of the product team, reporting to the CEO, you’ll lead the Product and Engineering team members. You’ll also collaborate with cross functional leads across marketing, merchandising, design, and customer experience to define and bring to life a vision for how the platform can reach and retain customers via the Desktop and Mobile web experiences.

This is an opportunity for high impact. You will help shape a new customer experience from the ground up, applying the very best tools and technologies to the e-commerce space, and help develop innovative channels for growth.

Because is looking to drive results in the following areas:

Excellence in ecommerce. Drive best-in-class ecommerce experience that supports subscriptions and conversion for new and existing customers.

Team operations and efficiency. Leading and coordinating the PMs and internal+outsourced Eng team, ensure that they ship fast and often with proper testing.

Product strategy, planning, execution. Every week they need to improve their customer experience, and the team is small. This means that in addition to ideation/strategy, you’ll need to lead prioritization and also roll up your sleeves to execute individually.

Hiring, mentoring and developing talent. Because Market is creating a high-performing team and they need to hire, develop and nurture first-class PMs and engineers.

Qualifications:

● Experience working in a fast-paced, high growth company, ecommerce company

● 10+ years of product management experience, 4+ years directly managing others

● A passion for jumping deep into data and the ability to run experiments to quickly test hypotheses

● Proven experience in implementing, managing and extending systems that power growth such as email and messaging service providers, customer data platforms, and ecommerce platforms

● Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, and other audiences

● Demonstrated ability to take a broad view on product decisions across disciplines – marketing, logistics, legal, customer service, supportability, etc.

Who you are:

● Love getting in the weeds with design and engineering

● Strong leadership, customer engagement, organization, team influence, and interpersonal skills

● Strong understanding of prioritization frameworks and the ability to estimate the opportunity size for each initiative you take on

● Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. You roll up your sleeves and do what's necessary to drive your initiatives to completion

● Have strong attention to detail

● Care passionately about delivering experiences that delight our customers

Benefits:

● Comprehensive healthcare, including medical, dental and vision

● Competitive salary + compensation package

● 401K

● Long term disability

● Flex PTO

● Partially remote today - we will work together from our office in Redwood City, CA 1-2 days per week

Because is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws.

Sr. Dir. Product (Because Market)