(first) Product Manager

You should join koodos labs for the people and our mission. We aspire to build the best team of the 2020s. Just like PayPal in the 90s, Google in the 00s, and Stripe in the 10s, we want to be known as "a place where it's good to be from." If you join us, we promise to be the best place to grow your career — with the best people you've ever worked with. We're also working on a very bold mission. We think the most important problem and opportunity in information technology is accelerating the inevitable transition from a world where users go to many functional applications, each of which has a siloed view of that user, to one where apps/agents/services come to a user controlled data store and are composed into useful solutions for that user. And we're looking to get there by building something really fun and useful that people choose to use regularly as they go about their life. Read more about working at koodos labs here. What we're building Shelf helps users passively track their consumption, connect with others through shared interests, and gain insights about themselves from their data. And, in return, users get a personal data store and the ability to provision access to their credentials and data at-will, gaining a passport to a more agentic internet. We've helped >400,000 users re-aggregate >1B data points so far (i.e. Jad watched S2E1 of Severance). Check us out on the iOS app store (Android coming soon!) Shelf is powered by our platform connections solution: DataMover, a "Plaid for Personal Data". Beyond Shelf, it's now used by a select group of 3rd party apps and agents to power novel experiences. The future is personalized experiences powered by user-controlled data, this depends on dynamic and transportable user data. We're building a future where apps and services come to you and your data—not the other way around. See our latest paper here. The Opportunity You will be working very closely with our CEO Jad and across Shelf and Project DataMover. 80% (1) Ship the Product Own timely, high-quality product delivery, working closely with Design and Engineering. Write clear, asymmetrical product specs and ensure ongoing alignment. Collaborate with Engineering to establish robust tech plans, increase velocity and unblock execution. Support sprint planning, issue triage, and backlog management Continuously assess data and platform capabilities with Engineering to optimize product execution. Constantly defining and measuring product success + collaborating with UXR on analytics and user research. (2) Sync the People Act as the glue across teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment. Identify and remove blockers, optimizing the product development process based on team feedback. Facilitate collaborative sessions to ensure timely, informed decision-making. **20% (3) Shape the Product** Continuously work to minimize time-to-magic and focus on asymmetric growth bets. Highly experimental, able to develop hypotheses and collaborate closely to unravel insights from our data. Own and refine prioritization, ensuring containers are created for rapid decision-making. Define and communicate product goals in collaboration with the CEO and team. Collab on strategy docs and guide sequencing alongside CEO, UX Research and team.

🚀 What is the master plan? To invert the internet's data model. We think the most important problem/opportunity in information technology is accelerating the inevitable transition from a world where users go to many functional applications, each of which has a siloed view of that user, to one where apps/agents/services come to a user controlled data store and are composed into useful solutions for that user. The future is personalized experiences powered by user-controlled data, this depends on dynamic and transportable user data. We're building a future where apps and services come to you and your data—not the other way around. See our latest paper here. The first act is helping users aggregate their consumption and interest data in a personal data store via Shelf. Shelf leverages that data to create meaningful moments that help you connect with yourself and others. 📣 What is the product? We're building Shelf. It's a digital shelf that updates as you consume content online. You can control what shows up on your shelf, and see when people you know are watching, reading or listening to the same thing. And it's built on top of infrastructure that allows you to reclaim control over your consumption and interest data, and provision third-party access to it to personalize experiences without compromising your privacy. ✨ Who are we? We're a small, but mighty team with backgrounds in big tech, as startup founders and as early members at successful startups. We've come together around a shared vision and are dedicated to creating important and positive experiences for cyberspace. We're well resourced Series A company (unannounced rounds) & backed by top-tier investors, including the backers of companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, Snap, and Twitter, as well as the founders of companies like Zynga, VSCO, and Scale and the people behind artists like Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Lorde, Logic, and Panic! At The Disco, and many others. Our team is advised by the founders of Pinterest, Dubsmash (now Reddit), as well as pioneers of digital marketing and market design from Harvard. We care about building a genuinely diverse team. We are a majority-first gen immigrant team and sponsor visas — we think that's important as we build towards enabling easier digital migration. We have a very high bar for talent and hire for slope over intercept. When bringing folks onto our team, these are some attributes we look for: HIGH AGENCY (cares deeply, engaged, driven, hard-working) HUMILITY (low ego, self-aware, respectful) GRIT (resilience in the face of challenges, welcomes ambiguity) GROWTH MINDSET (always looking to make things better, force multiplier) TEAM-FIRST MENTALITY (in service of the team, community & koodos mission — not themselves) SPARK (inspiring, positive, puts energy in, creative, unique) TALENT MAGNET (am i proud to be working with them?, will they attract other talent?)