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OVERVIEW The Group Product Manager leads a Product Manager while contributing as a senior level individual contributor capacity (as needed). This role focuses on a core tenet of Caper’s strategic product offering on Caper’s web platform. In this role you will refine the vision of your product; a product obsessed with delivering unrivalled value and continuously unlocking opportunities. In this key role you are responsible for identifying initiatives tied to our objectives and leading others through delivery. You will work with your team to derive and review insights gathered from a multitude of sources including shoppers, partners, session data and industry trends. To succeed in this role you believe that Design and Engineering should not be siloed and that they work together throughout the process to build a structurally sound, beautiful and intuitive user experience. About the Team Caper builds smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience. Caper’s unique technology is a plug- and-play solution that does not require retail store renovation, operational overhaul, heavy compute, and endless image labeling & training. Retailers simply purchase smart shopping carts and the entire store is upgraded with cashierless capabilities! Caper is one of the fastest-growing retail automation technology products in the market, costs less than 1% of our competitions’ infrastructure and is already widely adopted in the marketplace. Our cross-functional and durable Product team solves hard customer & business problems in ways that our customers love. ABOUT THE JOB
Lead product planning, product & customer discovery, the product development process, effort estimation and collaborate with teams across the organization (i.e Engineering and Design)
Identify opportunities via quantitative research, case studies, and reviews of industry standard methodologies
Intake & validate new ideas through a set of frameworks and drive them into implementable projects.
Serve as the point person for your product area to leadership and across the organization
Promote best design practices and user experiences while creating a scalable & easy to use product that connects with it’s users.
Evaluate shopper/partner challenges and build solutions (from top-level goals to detailed operational and system details). Maintain alignment across partner-facing teams.
Publish company-wide updates. Ensure that requirements, release notes and other artifacts are documented. consisting of product performance metrics, team performance and product roadmap.
ABOUT YOU MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
5+ years of Product Management & Leadership experience
Knowledge of industry standard design tools and strong design thinking practices
Strong understanding of an empathetic, flexible and iterative approach to product development
Design thinking experiences & experiences standing behind design decisions that focus on finding out the right ideas alongside the business’s focus on growth
Proven experience leveraging data to make good decisions when confronted with ambiguity. You should be data and metrics driven
Strong experiences presenting to large groups & influencing people to run towards goals
Strong ability to manage multiple stakeholders
Experiences using tools like JIRA to manage Scrum processes
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience developing consumer-facing products, in retail, restaurant, hospitality or e-commerce
Engineering background or strong understanding of technical implementation at a high level
Experience with computer vision, software & hardware, IoT products
Experience working at a startup & building a team from scratch
Ability to be based in the New York City area preferred but not required
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