[Hiring] Product @AirGarage

About AirGarage 🏙

AirGarage is repurposing the 30% of real estate in the average American city currently dedicated to parking.

We are building a future where real estate is digitized and can be transitioned from one use to another seamlessly on-demand, moving every piece of urban real estate toward its highest and best use.

We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types.

As a full-stack parking operator, we automate the operation of parking lots and parking garages. We handle everything from advertising to collecting payments from drivers and enforcing against illegal parking. We already operate 250+ parking lots and parking garages across 35 US states and we are growing quickly.

We are backed by top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.

Want to learn more about AirGarage and the problem we're tackling?

Check out these podcasts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU0NkDK51E4

https://youtu.be/_8aM6NQHYiE?si=p5WIujBWUA1sG-b7

THE ROLE 👩🏾‍💻

As the foundational Product hire at AirGarage, you’ll have a high-impact opportunity to shape a product that powers parking garages across the country and is used daily by thousands of people.

This is not just a strategy role, you’ll need to be tactical as well. You will be leading meetings, conducting customer research, defining product requirements, and working with our design, operations, and engineering teams to deliver an outstanding product for our customers.

You’ll need natural leadership skills and the ability to rally others around an initiative you’re pursuing, as well as strong communication skills to maintain momentum on a team that is primarily remote

Product Management is a fairly technical role at AirGarage. While you won’t be coding, we expect PMs to have a fundamental understanding of how web apps work and know enough about software to be dangerous. What we build often lives and operates in the physical world, so understanding what makes these systems tick is crucial to identifying product opportunities.

WHAT YOU WILL DO 👷‍♀️

• Devise strategy, define product requirements, and ensure the outcome hits the mark by collaborating with sales, operations, and AirGarage’s leadership team.

• Lead effective product meetings and run sprint cadences with our engineering team.

• Collaborate with designers using tools like Figma to prototype, refine, and implement creative solutions to customer problems.

• Organize feedback, bugs, and ideas into a development backlog.

• Talk to our two customer segments (parking asset owners and drivers) to develop a deep understanding of their needs. You’ll need to know the market, our product, and the competition extremely well. You’ll learn to finish our customers’ sentences, which means talking to a lot of them in order to understand the root of a problem.

• Advocate for the customer and drive clear prioritization and efficient execution in the face of ambiguity and complexity.

• Use data and A/B testing frameworks like LaunchDarkly to glean insights and make informed decisions.

• Balance urgent short term requests with important long term business opportunities and growth levers.

• Communicate internally and externally. You will help write documentation, deliver updates to other internal teams, help craft marketing messaging, assemble presentations, and more.

WHAT YOU NEED 👩🏼‍🎓

• 4+ years of experience as a PM.

• Strong decision-making skills — you will need to decide what to build and why, which isn't just about listening to customers tell you what features they want.

• Technical background that enables you to convey product requirements to engineers and relay complicated details to non-technical colleagues and customers.

• A passion for organization and documentation - this role is all about communicating while efficiently managing projects with many moving parts.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills - ability to garner buy-in, explain tradeoffs, and keep stakeholders up to date.

• Fundamental understanding of good UX design — you’re compelled to make things look beautiful and work flawlessly.

• A growth mindset -- you should be a lifelong learner, hungry to challenge yourself and grow.

THE UPSIDE 📈

• By joining as one of our early team members, there is enormous opportunity ahead for you to have an outsized impact and shape the future of AirGarage in this role.

• A lot of room to grow -- the product team will be orders of magnitude larger within a few years, and you’ll be the foundation of that team.

• Work closely with our founders to drive strategy and execute key initiatives.

• You’ll see your work manifest in the real world, and have the opportunity to change the way that the world thinks about real estate use in our cities.

• A diverse team -- we are currently 35%+ female and 30%+ non-white and we hope to continue hiring thoughtfully to build a team that represents the fact that our customers come from all walks of life.

• You’ll be joining a sharp, motivated team and have the option to work in an office in San Francisco or work remotely. Our company is remote-first but we know some people thrive in the in-person energy of working in an office.

We understand that there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We're looking for someone passionate, with grit and determination, who is excited to face the challenges of a rapidly growing startup. AirGarage is the type of company where you can grow exponentially, and we encourage you to apply to us even if you don't 100% match the candidate description.

AirGarage is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  Candidates and employees are always evaluated based on merit, qualifications, and performance.  We will never discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, martial status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.