Product Manager

Our mission

Boom is on a mission to level the playing field for the 110+ million renters in the US by making housing more flexible, affordable, and attainable. We’ve started by creating rent payment tools that enable renters to pay on the schedule they define and build credit in the process, currently serving thousands of renters. We are led by a team of second-time founders Rob Whiting (ex-BCG, Rubicon) and Kirill Moizik (Eco, Technion, Grubhub). It's backed by investors such as Starting Line, Clocktower Ventures, Gilgamesh Ventures (Petal co-founders), and angels such as William Hockey and Zach Perret (Co-founders of Plaid) who led Boom's pre-seed round (joined by Harry Stebbings and others from places like Cash App, Mint House, Landis, and Redfin).

Opportunity

You will directly own the roadmap and execution for at least one of Boom's products. You will report directly to the Head of Product, and work closely with the Co-founders (CEO, CTO), engineering team, and designers. You’ll need to be able to toggle between deep detail (e.g. user experience flows, payment flows, technical documentation) while keeping the broader business strategy and product direction in mind. This role is a great fit for someone who is highly-organized, works well cross-functionally, and wants to ship real products and features; it’s not a great fit for someone who wants to do market analysis, benchmarking, slide decks, etc. Lastly, in this role you’ll be involved in senior-level company decisions and work closely with a talented team from places like BCG, Amazon, Grubhub, Eco, and others. Given the seniority of the role, this role is based in Austin with our leadership.

What you'll do

• Create and maintain the product roadmap (alongside the Head of Product, CTO and CEO)
• Own and report out on key product analytics metrics (e.g. in Amplitude), and stay close to marketing analytics metrics (e.g. in Singular)
• Write business requirements + wireframes (for design) for product requirement docs, working closely with engineering
• Serve as the primary interface with design
• Lead all product handoffs/releases
• Lead, alongside the Head of Product, external product communication (feature launches, user guides, API docs, FAQs, email communication, etc.)
• Become a domain expert - deeply understand customers, competitors, vendors, industry trends, etc.
• Support Boom’s customer discovery, and translate learnings into new features, refinements, or new product pilot sprints (which you will also lead)

What you'll need

• 2+ years of experience, ideally as a product manager and/or management consultant
• Experience at an early stage venture-backed company
• Experience working with data (e.g. able to manipulate Redash queries or SQL)
• Experience working with Figma + strong bias to get to rough visuals as fast as possible
• Strong bias to action with an ability to conceptualize and plan
• Strong communicator and writer (e.g. you have plenty of past writing samples such as product releases or PRDs)
• Other table stakes stuff - analytical ability, attention to detail, organization skills, personable demeanor, competitive spirit
• Preferred: Some technical background / computer science degree (our stack includes React Native, Ruby, JavaScript, Postgres)
• Preferred: fintech or proptech background

Benefits of working at Boom

• Competitive salary with stock options
• Full healthcare coverage (health, dental, vision) including 50% coverage for dependents
• 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year + 5 sick days + all US federal holidays (11 in total) (note: we think unlimited PTO is BS and causes some employees to feel guilty when they take it)
• Company-issued laptop/MacBook
• Company-sponsored training & development
• Regular off-sites, retreats, and other company-sponsored events and travel opportunities

How to apply

Apply on Angelist and send a quick paragrah addressed to Rob as to why you're interested / qualified.