Product Manager
The Role
Genetica is a Venture Capital backed startup (JAM fund, Talent Resources Ventures, Evolution VC and others) in the Cannabis space. Retail is challenging even when everything is “going right.” Add in the complexities of cannabis where retailers face onerous regulations, fickle customers, and tight margins, it’s no wonder companies are struggling. Dispensaries are constantly looking for ways to attract and retain new customers so they can increase profits. But nobody is approaching it the right way. They are piecing together different tools and strategies instead of using their data to understand their customers, their employees, and their business. Insert Genetica. Genetica provides AI software that makes all data work for retailers, their customers, their employees and their stores.
Position Overview:
The Product Manager will be responsible for overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative, and market-leading products. This role requires strong collaboration, strategic thinking, and a deep understanding of user needs, technology trends, and business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead efforts to identify near and long-term opportunities, shaping product vision, strategies and roadmaps in alignment with organizational objectives.
- Define and prioritize product features based on retailer and customer feedback, market research, and industry trends.
- Operate under agile methodologies, lead daily Scrums, sprint planning, sprint review discussions and sprint demos.
- Partner cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and other teams to execute the product roadmap effectively.
- Establish best practices around discovery, prototyping, continuous and rapid testing and learning, with a relentless focus on user experience.
- Function as a product owner, actively managing stakeholder expectations by communicating status and timelines.
- Drive product innovation, leveraging emerging technologies and identifying opportunities for product enhancements.
- Drive sound financial and business discipline to roadmap prioritization and perform pre/post launch analysis of each product and drive team accountability for results.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience within digital product development, building successful, customer-centric products within a rapidly growing organization.
- Demonstrated success in delivering successful products from concept to launch, ideally in a fast-paced startup setting.
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy.
- A proven track record of implementing clear product development processes and frameworks to facilitate more effective iteration and delivery.
- Experience with best practice agile scrum development and lean startup principles.
- Professional Product Management certifications are highly desired (ex. CSM, Agile, PDP, etc.)
- Experience working with front-end and back-end development teams with an understanding of LEAN Agile practices like Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe Agile frameworks and serverless microservice based architecture patterns.
- Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical details.
- Strong analytical and synthesis skills are a must, including the ability to absorb and process large amounts of data into actionable information;
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work well in a team-oriented environment.
- Excellent project management skills and attention to detail.
Genetica is an equal opportunity employer who evaluates applicants for employment on the basis of qualifications, merit and work-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, mental or physical disabilities, pregnancy, medical condition, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law. Genetica employs and values a diverse work environment.