About AudioShake

AudioShake is an audio research company that’s helping power the next wave of music, film, and content experiences by making audio editable, accessible, and useful. Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge, and named to TIME's Best Inventions list, our sound separation and lyric transcription technology is used by major and indie labels, music publishers, film studios, broadcasters, and sports teams across a wide range of audio editing tasks.

Our team is a mix of A.I. researchers, engineers, and audiophiles, split between North America and Europe. Team members are highly independent, responsible, and collaborative. We strongly believe that great ideas can come from all members and roles on a team, and that everyone contributes uniquely to the company's culture and products.

About the Role

As the first Product Manager at AudioShake, you will help shape our product vision and roadmap, while leveraging customer feedback and market input to drive company success. At AudioShake, building cutting-edge research models that have real-world, practical benefits is a top priority, so you’ll leverage customer feedback and market insights to ensure we’re delivering customer value and opening up audio for new use cases.

You’ll collaborate with design, engineering, and research teams to build the right product, and work with our sales and marketing teams to get our products into the hands of our customers. You’ll work closely with our CEO and CTO on overall product direction and deployment, actively research the market, and engage with our customers, who range from start-up developers through to large Enterprises.

We’re looking for a Product Manager who is highly flexible, technically-minded, and enthusiastic about moving in a fast-paced environment full of exciting unknowns and opportunities...

Hiring location:

This role is hybrid-remote, based in San Francisco, California. We work together two days a week.

What You'll Do

Serve as a founding member of the product function at AudioShake
Talk regularly with customers and our sales team, dig into market data, and help the wider organization understand our customers as well
Working closely with the CEO, help set the direction of AudioShake’s products
Own the product roadmap and strategy, and continuously identity and prioritize opportunities for growth and improvement
Identify new product opportunities, and lead the scoping, prioritization, and delivery of new products and features.
Work closely with the engineering team to ensure technical feasibility and timely delivery of new products.
Collaborate cross-functionally
Measure, analyze and report to the organization on the success of our products
Be an advocate for the user and use data and analytics to drive decisions and improvements

Job Requirements

4+ years as a Product Manager, with a track record of launching successful products
Entrepreneurial mindset–you should have an ability to think creatively about how to tackle challenges
You don’t need to be an engineer, but you do need to understand basic technical language and concepts, and feel at ease working with deeply technical teams and complex systems.
Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead and execute multiple projects simultaneously
Knowledge and experience of user research methodologies and comfortable in front of customers
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas and concepts clearly and concisely
Ability to navigate ambiguity and the different goals and mindsets of different internal and external stakeholders
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make data-driven decisions
Collaborative and team-oriented mindset: We care about getting the job done, not about reporting lines, territories, and egos.

Nice to have

Start-up experience
Audio domain expertise
Previous experience building products for developers
Experience owning end-to-end product development, from ideation to launch

Benefits:

Health, vision, and dental benefits
Unlimited vacation
Frequent team meet-ups in different parts of the world
Equity options

Above all, we treat people like humans, not work units. We want you to love your job, but also have the time and energy to have a life outside it.

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