Product Manager
Root Global
🌎 What we do
We build software that helps companies along the food system get to Net Zero.
~31% of global GHG emissions originate from food-related activities. For the first time in history, climate performance has become an overall business performance indicator. Enterprises are mandated by regulatory bodies to disclose their climate performance, which leads to increasing pressure from investors, competitors, retailers, and consumers to prevent and reduce their CO2e emissions. Over the next 10 years, companies have set ambitious reduction targets that need to be met. Enterprise software and new business processes can help.
We raised >€10m in funding in the first 2 years of our existence, we launched our enterprise product, signed and onboarded some of the largest F&B players in Europe, and put together what we believe is the best-suited early stage tech team in Europe. Will you be the next to join us? 🚀
🔭 What you will work on
Your mission
Build and grow our first-of-its-kind B2B SaaS product in line with our core users’ needs & in line with the continuous development of climate protocols
Over the next 12 months you will:
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Ensure users reach their business goals with our software
We are looking for someone who believes: “I am capable of being the best sustainability manager in the world for any given F&B company!” You’ll feel like you’re building a solution for yourself 🧠
Doing this only for yourself would be too easy! You will need to ensure that user context and needs are fully engrained in the entire product development team 👩💻
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We are not only introducing a tool. We are introducing new processes, involving new people and offering a holistic solution to help companies get to Net Zero. Our current software is just one slice of the cake 🍰 in our grand vision!
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Deliver projects with full accountability in high quality and on time
Our roadmap is a living Figjam document - we expect you to constantly adjust our roadmap in line with new user and ever-changing ecosystem context 🏃♀️
Your success is the result of how well you can rally your fellow designer and engineers around one common goal and project plan 🏎️
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We are at the point where we are growing from baby 👶 to teenager 👧 - we rely on your experience to introduce things like:
Agile ways of working to the extent is makes sense at this stage of the company
Weekly milestone planning and predictable delivery cycles
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Product metrics and performance indicators
You will be measured by:
Transparency: How well can you communicate decisions and status quo
Velocity: How fast can you and your squad deliver new projects
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Happiness: How much satisfaction and excitement does your squad feel when working with you
🦾 How we support you
Meet the rest of the team
You will report to one of our co-founders: Eric
Some of our angel investors that will actively mentor you:
Vassili Samolis (Director Product @Doordash, ex-Instagram, ex-Pinterest)
Jasson Schrock (first designer @Youtube after acquisition, ex-Google, ex-BCG DV)
Tevfik Aloglu (Co-founder @Pyne, ex-BCG DV, ex-Rocket Internet)
It is important to us to give you the best conditions for learning and career growth.. This is why we have designed our cap table in a way that all our early employees get functional experts as mentors by your side. See more of our other angel investors and mentors HERE.
🧺 What you bring along
You might be a good fit if:
No previous climate industry experience necessary - you will learn everything on the job if you are curious and willing to work hard!
You can put yourself in the shoes of others and genuinely enjoy helping them solve problems
You worked in product management or software/ data engineering for a company that delivered B2B software products at a particularly high pace.
You worked closely with designers and engineers on sharing context, breaking down projects and delivering with high reliability.
You experienced product building in early stage companies, either as founder, early team member or initiator of a new product inside a larger enterprise.
You worked in any user-facing roles where you had to build strong relationships with customers and became a trusted partner for users.
You can communicate and document your ideas with high clarity of thought.
You are highly organised, structured and reliable in your work.
You have good business sense.
🎢 Hiring Process
Our ambition is to offer you an end-to-end experience that is fast and uncomplicated - we aim to keep the end-to-end process to 10 working days. We send you prep material for each step and maximise transparency at every step.