Product Manager

The team and your role

We're a team of 12 today, and we’re passionate about Product, Fintech, and the power of Open Source.

Our work revolves around creating a tech-driven metering and usage-based billing application for now. As we process and structure a lot of data and build for developers, we have numerous exciting Product challenges!

As a Product Manager at Lago, you will be a key contributor to the overall product, documentation and design direction of the company. This role requires a deep understanding of public API, interactive applications, excellent communication skills, and experience in product research.

Requirements

• Years of hands-on experience in designing and developing interactive applications.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting comprehensive product research.

During the first year, as a product manager at Lago, you will

• Contribute to the overall product, documentation and design direction of the company.
• Understand customer and community needs and challenges proactively.
• Conceptualize and propose features and improvements that are shipped quickly while maintaining high quality.
• Work closely with sr. engineers and other key stakeholders to ensure a high-quality implementation through cross-functional teamwork.
• Collaborate with designers in crafting flows, prototypes for your designated features.
• Play a role in hiring and establishing a product and design culture within the company.
• Innovate and redefine best-in-class software design and development processes, contributing to the creation of an opinionated product.

What we value

• Passion for solving intricate challenges with best-in-class solutions, always prioritizing a thoughtful Dev/User experience.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to navigate through ambiguous or unclear situations with confidence and clarity.
• Commitment to continuous learning and personal growth, fostering a mindset of daily improvement.

The person we are looking for

• A former engineer with a robust understanding of Product Management or a Product Manager with an engineering background (at least 4 years of hands-on experience).
• Experience working with lots of data and event-driven environments.
• A genuine passion for Open-Source: if you've contributed to OSS projects or used OSS tools, let us know!
• Gain extra points for hands-on experience with an API product or billing project including implementation, enhancement, and maintenance.
• A real appetite for the early stages of co-creating a product and shaping Lago's future.

Competitive package including equity; Remote-friendly; Regular workations, usually by the 🌞🌊🏄

Our typical interview process:

1. 20-min first call
2. Technical case
3. Review of the case with the team
4. Offer

What we commit to:

• Your time is precious, and we'll do our very best to be time-conscious with yours.
• If you're open to it, we commit to give you the most constructive feedback as possible on your case, as we are aware it's quite an investment of time on your side.
• We approach recruiting as a 2-way street, we make offers when we have a strong conviction on the mutual fit: in terms of skills, mindset, cultural fit.