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About Rheaply
Founded in 2016, Rheaply, Inc. is a Chicago-based technology company with a mission to build transformative technology so that every resource finds its next use. Rheaply has developed and launched a resource exchange platform for colleagues and communities to exchange resources and materials (e.g. furniture, fixtures, equipment, and other building products), tracking cost savings and waste reduction in the process. Recently, Rheaply has been featured in Forbes, Inc Magazine, The New York Times, Nature, VERGE, and Greenbiz, among others, and has won several awards within the climate tech and social innovation space.
Rheaply has also been awarded the 1871 Disrupter Award, Most Innovative Reuse Company, 2021 Social Innovator Award from Chicago Innovation, and 2022 Environmental Stewardship Award from the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility among other notable awards and recognitions.
Opportunity
As we evolve our category-building product, we are seeking a Product Manager to join our current Product team. The ideal candidate would have product management with technical fluency focused on integration experience.
We are looking for a candidate who has experience with building information management systems, experience with B2B Saas solutions or a Marketplace product and product-led growth experience.
Nice to have domain expertise: Construction, interior design, and/or procurement industry expertise would be amazing. This is a high collaborative role that will lead cross-functional teams and projects.
Roles and Responsibilities
Product Management is a hands-on entrepreneurial role at Rheaply. You will work with Engineering and Design teams to decide what products to build with a deep understanding of why. Product Managers will deliver value to users and customers that are aligned under our product vision.
Product managers will bring focus to product teams by being the voice of the customer and leveraging data and input from the wider company. They will develop methods to acquire, engage, and retain customers in the new frontier of circular economy. They will support our early stage company in building and executing a design and delivery process.
What does this look like?
Deliver business value
- Monetize market demand: Identify near-term and strategic initiatives and experiments to evolve our monetization strategy, drive growth, and improve conversion
- Identify product enhancements that deliver value and realizing value from new features starts with selecting those that will provide the most benefit.
Product Discovery
- Listen to users: Learn as much as we can about our current and potential users (market), their status quos, aspirations, motivations, product experience, and pain points through continuous discovery
- Facilitate product decisions: Create alignment between product, design, and engineering on what we are building, why, and when. Our decisions should be evidence based and researched. Priorities and trade-offs are well understood and shared with the team.
- Over-communicate: share product vision, decisions, roadmap, and implications with other Rheaply teams. Facilitate conversations across the company that are product driven.
Product Development and Delivery
- Solve real problems: Solve complex, sometimes cross-functional, problems which you execute with minimal guidance
- Execute builds: Oversee the design, development and launch of innovative products with a penchant for on time delivery and product experimentation. Identifies issues that might block delivery and outlines a path to resolution.
Minimum Qualifications
- A proven history of success in product management roles at high-tech or SaaS software companies for a minimum of 3-5 years
- Extensive experience in B2B with Product led growth
- Experience owning and driving the building and shipping of complex, SaaS products at scale
- Genuine excitement and curiosity to solve problems and a strong sense of empathy for customers
- Demonstrates great product sense and ability to balance business strategy, organizational context and data in driving towards solutions
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across multiple projects, align on goals, and deliverables
- Ability to define and prioritize initiatives using product management frameworks while working cross-functionally, and managing complex stakeholder relationships
- An entrepreneurial mindset - you must be comfortable rolling up your sleeves, thriving in ambiguity, and getting the work done
- You believe in Rheaply’s Core Values and shall conduct your work in accordance with our values
- Experience Google Business products (Drive, Sheets, Docs, etc.), AirTable, Adobe Creative Suite, [UX design platform], MacOS, Asana is plus Figma/MIRA Productboard/AHA, Asana/JIRA/Monday
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computers or Design.
- Experience with identifying opportunities for public API's
- Experience with building integration tools, reports and dashboards
- Construction and interior design industry knowledge
- A demonstrated interest in sustainability, circular economy, Supply Chain, and Procurement (e.g., coursework, work or internship experience, involvement in student groups)
More About Rheaply
At Rheaply, we envision a world where all assets and resources are highly visible, searchable, and reusable. Join us today to help us achieve our mission.
Rheaply, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of our activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and firing of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, interns, volunteers, subcontractors.
Rheaply’s Core Values
We strive to provide the most seamless experience for our users, enabling our client organizations to achieve full utilization of their assets, thereby reducing procurement, storage, as well as environmental costs by keeping valuable resources in circulation. As a team, we pledge to execute our work in accordance with our seven Core Values
- We Listen To and Delight Our Users -- Our users are our most important stakeholders. We strive to provide the most seamless user experience and value to our users across client organizations. We do our best to have empathy for their problems and challenges. We listen to users’ feedback and provide timely responses to questions and needs.
- We Encourage Individual Team Member Growth, Innovation, And Happiness -- Our people are our most valuable assets. Rheaply’s success is dependent upon the collective drive, intelligence, curiosities and contributions of all of our team members. We care for the wellbeing of each team member and ensure that they have the support and mentorship they need to succeed at Rheaply and beyond.
- We Value Transparency, Humility, and Open Communication -- The key determinant to our successful market execution is our ability to communicate and share successes, learnings, insights, struggles, and solutions across our teams. At Rheaply, we strive to cultivate a culture of intelligence with humility. We care about hearing each member’s voice and understanding their unique perspective.
- We Care About Our Communities And The Environment -- Rheaply is driven by the mission to reduce our environmental footprint and accelerate our transition to a circular economy. We strive to live by our mission of promoting environmental awareness and waste reduction in our decisions and actions at Rheaply and beyond.
- We Promote A Collaborative Culture of Learning and Problem-Solving -- Rheaply is committed to finding straightforward solutions to complex problems. We are constantly learning from each other, from our clients, and from our competitors. We strive to understand problems at the microscopic level and become industry experts in building, deploying, and iterating sustainable, circular solutions.
- We Are Tenacious and We Own Our Work -- At Rheaply, we are dedicated to enabling the transition to a more circular world. We are relentless about our mission and vision. We hold ourselves accountable for our words and actions, both internally and in the market.
- We Strive To Be Helpful -- We view all the work we do at Rheaply as daily, non-stop efforts to help and support each other, our clients, our users, our partners, and our shared environment.
Rheaply, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of our activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and firing of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, interns, volunteers, subcontractors.
