Product Manager

Spec is looking for its first Product Manager (PM) to own management and execution of Spec’s product strategy. You will manage the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept to launch and ongoing product growth. Practically every decision at Spec flows through product, so you’ll work closely with an extremely broad set of cross-functional teams including engineering, product design, marketing, and our founders - former PMs themselves. You’ll ensure that the product meets the needs of the market and the company's goals, and lay the foundation for eventually leading a product team.

What You'll Do

• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept to launch and ongoing product growth
• Synthesize product needs sourced from customers, field teams, technical teams, and strategy teams into prioritized and dependency-aware product roadmaps
• Align and elevate feature requests and bug-fixes into roadmap-aware platform features
• Write and maintain exceptional product requirements, product reference documents, and product strategy documents.
• Collaborate with a broad set of cross-functional teams to ensure successful product launches and ongoing product success
• Anticipate how evolving product needs will drive the creation of technical debt and collaborate with engineering teams to mitigate this
• Measure and report on the success of product initiatives

What We're Looking For

• Product management experience with a platform product - a product that enables users to create value you didn’t anticipate
• Strong technical acumen and technical empathy
• Exceptional writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience working in a venture-backed startup environment
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data to inform decisions

Job Perks

• Company-paid health care for you and your dependents (medical, dental, and vision)
• Unlimited PTO
• 401k
• A remote-friendly environment with flexible working hours
• Opportunities to travel multiple times a year (San Jose)
• Home office reimbursement
• Learning reimbursement
• Quarterly Innovation Weeks
• Referral bonus program
• 16-week paid parental leave
• Frequent opportunities for skill and career growth
• Happy hours, game days, holiday parties, off-site events
• Headquarters in downtown San Jose (10-minute walk from CalTrain)

Why Spec?

Spec is a venture-backed startup with a people-focused culture and a mission to fight crime on the internet. Our unique platform solves enterprise-scale problems related to finding bad actors and protecting good users on the web. The Spec team is small but growing fast. Each team member has regular opportunities to make a significant impact and affect the company's future. Spec is a value-driven company looking to build and support organizations of people who want to enact change and solve interesting problems.

Our Values

Our values inform everything that we do. A company is made of people, not employees, and this idea is core to the heart of our team. We operate with empathy, transparency, and honesty in all internal and external interactions. We constantly focus on learning and growth at an individual and institutional level. We actively seek out diverse perspectives to drive new ideas and empower innovation. Read more about our core values on our company website.

Commitment To Diversity

We are Spec: whole, diverse, and authentic people. Some of us have had the same identity since the day we were born, while others have grown into ourselves through a series of life events and personal discoveries. We recognize that companies are made out of people and strive to build a company that celebrates the diversity of cultures, backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. This idea is so important that it became a core value around which we built the company. We remain dedicated to sustaining an environment that's inclusive of people like you, exactly as you are.