Senior Product Manager

Posted Jul 29

☀️ Highlights

  • Chameleon is SaaS for product teams to create in-product UX (modals, banners, checklists, microsurveys etc.) to drive user engagement. Watch a short demo here (or sign up here)
  • We’re a remote-first, Series A, VC-backed (Matrix Partners, True Ventures) startup with ~40 folks distributed across the Americas and Europe. Learn more about us here.
  • Seeking our second Product Manager; someone with 5+ years of SaaS PM experience living in Americas/Europe, doing individual contributor work in close collaboration with our founders
  • Salary range is $120k-200k USD annually, based on experience and location
  • Our application process is engaging and interactive — we want to focus on your work quality, not just your interviewing skills, while getting to know you during the process
Sarah (previous applicant) wrote to us and said: “Whatever the outcome of this, I really enjoyed filling out this application! Great job, such a different approach than usual”

👉 Take to me the application!

💬 Why this role now?

Our product team is ~10 engineers, 3 QAs, 1 PM (Tj), 2 designers (Valentin, Russ), and our founders (Pulkit & Brian). We are building the best product in our category and are shipping great functionality, (see this or our LinkedIn page) but we want to go even faster 🚀

We are concurrently hiring another designer, and expect that with 2 PMs we’ll be able to build two pods of work (core and growth/new).

We raised a Series A last year after years of bootstrapped and sustainable growth, so are in a financially strong position. We have never conducted layoffs and believe in thoughtful hiring.

Listen to Tj talk about his experience as a PM at Chameleon!

Tj's intro for the second PM.mp4

🔮 Where are we heading?

It’s a great time to join as we have achieved product-market fit, established the fundamentals of operating as a product team, and work with over 300 outstanding teams, such as Twilio Segment, Mixpanel, Copy.ai, Fivetran, Chili Piper, and more. View some of our case studies here!

Watch a quick demo of our product below:

https://chameleon.wistia.com/medias/ev0l78u1sb

Users now expect personalized software, catering to their specific needs and context. This is hard to build and manage at scale, but the companies that succeed with this product-led approach are the winners. This provides us the opportunity to create a category-shaping company that is a part of every company’s product stack! 🌐

More on our product, team, culture, and vision here.

📅 What your day might include (+ our stack)

  • Joining customer meetings (we use Zoom, Fathom) for discovery
  • Managing our product feedback backlog and identifying priorities (Airtable, Trello)
  • Joining our daily design syncs with the product team (Tuple)
  • Collaborating with Pulkit, Brian, and Tj to define and refine the product roadmap (Notion)
  • Managing the feature delivery lifecycle
  • Transforming the roadmap into a design spec (Notion)
  • Reviewing designs and giving feedback (Figma)
  • Writing engineering stories (Trello)
  • Testing delivered stories (Chameleon and our internal testing accounts)
  • Running beta/early adopter programs with customers (Google Docs, Airtable, Slack)
  • Quantitative analysis of product usage and engagement (Segment + Mixpanel)
  • Collecting customer feedback (via calls, surveys, tickets etc.) (Chameleon, Front)
  • Doing product and market research (e.g. how competitors are solving these problems)

Skills and experience that will aid success in this role

  • 5+ years as a full-time product manager at a SaaS company
  • 1+ years of startup (<50 employees) experience
  • Strong UX sense / design eye and familiarity with common SaaS patterns
  • Enjoy writing spec docs or help articles to explain functionality
  • Great at managing multiple threads of work
  • Strong organization and time-management skills
  • Builder/owner mindset (independent, comfortable with ambiguity)

Other requirements

  • You have a fully functioning workstation and a quiet place to work (and take calls) with a high-speed internet connection
  • You are living in an Americas or European timezone (i.e. PST to CET; based in 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 etc.)
  • This will be your full-time job
  • Fluency (written and verbal) in English

💵 Key Compensation and Benefits for this Role

  • Competitive compensation ($120k-200k USD, based on experience and locale)
  • Early-stage equity (stock options) at a great valuation
  • New Macbook and $1,000 home-office budget
  • Flexible work hours, asynch culture and generous paid time off, plus Flexible Fridays!
  • Fully-paid international team retreats and mini-meetups (last one was in Miami; see here)
  • Access to True Ventures portfolio events, workshops, and networking
  • Ongoing coaching and mentorship from a leadership team that will help you rapidly develop and advance in your career

📝 What to expect from the hiring process

🌈 Chameleons are all different and uniquely beautiful. They change and aren't required to associate or identify with any specific labels. We welcome the chance to get to know you and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that consists of a variety of backgrounds, cultures, languages, experiences, preferences, and characteristics. That's what helps us all grow and evolve.

Our hiring process is crafted to give us a chance to experience collaborating (in a lightweight manner), represent how we actually work (to show you what it’ll be like) and to de-emphasize “interviewing” as a skill (writing is more important than talking for us):

  1. Application (~20 mins, form below) This is a Typeform with questions that extend beyond submitting your resume. We aim to make it engaging and resemble aspects of the job. It will also mean we can make the process quicker — our goal is 2 weeks chat to offer!
  2. First interview (45 mins) We’ll begin to get to know each other a bit and you’ll have the space to ask questions you have. The goal is to assess work style dynamics and communication.
  3. Take-home exercise (~2-4 hours) ****A short exercise where you can show off your skills; it’s important to us that we both evaluate working with each other (and not just talking to each other)
  4. Debrief interview (60 mins) Chance to talk through the exercise, and dive deeper into the PM work at Chameleon
  5. References To get a 360 view of your skills and qualities

Offer 🎉 If we all enjoy working together and make good progress on the exercise we’ll be in a position to make you a full-time offer (to start as soon as you can).

👉 Apply here 👈

🐥 Onboarding

Just a note to communicate that we invest in our new teammate onboarding as much as our recruiting process:

  • We create a customized and structured Onboarding doc corresponding to your Day 1, Week 1, Month 1 periods.
  • You’ll have a buddy (for non-functional questions) and a coach (for function specific needs) to seek help from.
  • There will be regular check-ins to ensure you’re getting up to speed.
  • Early on, you will “pair” as well as have your own independent work (e.g. enhancements to existing functionality) as you gain confidence to take on new projects end-to-end.

You will receive continued support from a team that cares deeply about your success. 🤗