Product Manager

📋 Description

• • Our hiring partner is at the forefront of revolutionizing the lab testing industry, specifically for consumer goods brands, by building a modern platform designed to make testing processes significantly cheaper, faster, and more efficient. This innovative solution aims to streamline regulatory compliance and drive revenue growth by transforming lab results into actionable business intelligence.
• • The core mission is to enhance transparency within the food system, addressing the common challenge faced by supplement and food brands where transparency is desired but hindered by the high cost and inaccessibility of lab testing data, often locked away in unshareable PDF formats. The platform bridges this gap, enabling brands to easily share critical lab data directly on their product pages.
• • This integration allows brands to prominently showcase product attributes, such as active ingredients and verified claims, while also highlighting the absence of harmful substances like heavy metals, environmental toxins, and PFAs, thereby building consumer trust and confidence.
• • Furthermore, the platform automates adherence to stringent regulations, including Prop 65, CA AB 899, and Amazon's testing mandates, simplifying a complex and often burdensome aspect of product development and marketing.
• • By unifying the entire process—from initial testing to customer-facing data dissemination—the company is creating a more cohesive and effective operational framework. This allows brands to differentiate themselves in competitive markets, positioning themselves as the clear choice through superior testing and unparalleled transparency.
• • The company boasts a strong foundation, led by experienced founders who have successfully secured $12 million in funding from prominent venture capital firms like 8VC and Valor. Demonstrating rapid growth, they have achieved a run rate exceeding $5 million within just 12 months of customer launch.
• • As a Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in scaling this transformative platform, which is already trusted by leading consumer brands such as Momentous and David Protein, as well as major US manufacturers. Your strategic decisions will directly influence how these clients manage quality workflows at scale, mitigate risks, and meet evolving regulatory standards.
• • Testing is fundamental to brand and manufacturer operations, impacting early issue detection, compliance with standards, and overall team confidence. The platform provides the essential software layer that consolidates these fragmented lab outputs into a unified, reliable system, converting raw data into usable insights.
• • You will be entrusted with the complete ownership of the platform's evolution, dictating investment priorities, feature releases, and long-term strategic development. This involves a delicate balance between addressing immediate customer needs and building sustainable, long-term platform value.
• • Your contributions will directly impact how proactively customers manage quality concerns and how effectively they leverage verified data to establish market trust and competitive advantage.
• • This is a hands-on, impactful role for a dedicated product builder seeking genuine ownership, close collaboration with customers and founders, and the opportunity to scale software that is integral to the operational success of modern consumer brands.
• • You will be responsible for defining and building the definitive platform for quality management, overseeing the product that governs product testing, quality decision-making, and market transparency. Your work will fundamentally shape daily brand operations and influence consumer choices regarding food and product consumption.
• • The role involves transforming the fragmented landscape of lab testing—characterized by disparate PDFs and spreadsheets—into a cohesive, indispensable software platform that serves as the system of record for quality.
• • A key responsibility is to unlock the business potential of lab data, identifying innovative applications to solve critical customer challenges. This will enable a shift from reactive quality management to proactive decision-making, allowing clients to anticipate issues and utilize verified data to enhance market transparency and build trust.
• • You will be instrumental in modernizing a sector still heavily reliant on manual processes. Collaborating with leading brands and manufacturers like AG1, Momentous, and David Protein, you will replace outdated systems of spreadsheets, PDFs, and email chains with cutting-edge software solutions.
• • The market currently lacks specialized tools, and you will be tasked with developing products that deliver significant time and cost savings, making the adoption of the hiring partner's platform for testing, compliance, and transparency workflows an obvious choice.
• • You will own the product's strategic direction and execution, working closely with founders to establish priorities and make critical trade-offs regarding development timelines and feature implementation.
• • The role demands end-to-end product lifecycle management, from initial problem definition and specification to execution, launch, and iterative improvement. This includes meticulous attention to detail, thorough QA of releases, and a commitment to refining workflows for speed, intuitiveness, and reliability.
• • This is a single-threaded ownership position, making you fully accountable for the product's successful delivery and real-world performance.
• • Maintaining deep customer engagement is crucial. You will work closely with sales teams and directly with customers to understand product usage in real-world scenarios, visiting manufacturing facilities and observing operational workflows to translate feedback into concrete product priorities.
• • Your ability to articulate customer pain points into focused product direction and deliver tangible outcomes that drive significant impact will be paramount.