Product Manager

Clara

Clara

Product
Latin America
Posted 6+ months ago

Clara is the leading spend management platform for companies in Latin America. Our end-to-end solution includes our locally-issued corporate cards, a Bill Pay product, financing solutions, and our highly-rated software platform; already being used by thousands of the most successful companies across the region.

Clara is backed by top global and regional investors such as GGV Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, General Catalyst, monashees, Acrew Capital, Kaszek, Citius, Canary, Citi Ventures, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Endeavor Catalyst, Goldman Sachs, Accial Capital, and prominent angel investors.

Responsibilities

  • Expert: Act as the key authority and point of contact for project development concepts, business strategy, and business models.
  • Advocate: Represent the voice of the customer throughout the development process.
  • Research: Determine customers’ needs, evaluate competition and review product strengths and weaknesses to surface opportunities.
  • Envisioning: Partner with the marketing, engineer, data, and design teams to bring the product vision to life with prototypes and mocks;
  • Planning: Work with coordinating departments to create and implement a decisive project plan and strategy from product development to launch.
  • Execution: Act as Scrum Master leading Ceremonies and maintaining the backlog, ensuring agreements are met on time.
  • Quality: Ensure that high standards of reliability, quality, usability and measurement are adhered to throughout each phase of product development.
  • Adoption: Works with marketing and sales departments to ensure product success and market growth.
  • Data: Collect, analyze and report on data to extract insights and make sure decisions are made based on high quality information.
  • Partnerships: Identify and manage the relationship with new and existing product partners.

Objective

  • Lead the success of a product by defining its strategy, prioritizing features, and collaborating with teams to ensure it meets customer needs and business goals.

Technical Skills

  • 3+ years of relevant work experience in product management.
  • Previous experience with startups and product lifecycle.
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability, taking products from zero to one.
  • Strong project management, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills.
  • Passion for conceiving, creating and designing useful, innovative products.
  • Experience identifying various business problems or product flaws and coming up with creative solutions.
  • Solid understanding of web and mobile technologies, service operations at scale, and ability to go deep in technical areas.
  • Ability to explain technical vision, roadmap, key solutions and technical architectures to all types of stakeholders.
  • Fluent in English, with structured and clear communication skills. Portuguese is a plus.
The way we do things is as important as what we do. That is why we operate on a set of carefully-identified values. They are what we expect from ourselves and each other in our day-to-day.

We value

* Clarity - Open and direct communication
* Simplicity - Pare things down to the essential
* Ownership - We're all owners and act like it
* Pride - Make quality products we're proud of
* Always Be Changing (ABC) - Continuous self-improvement
* Inclusivity - Every voice counts; we value each other for our shared mission and contributions

We are

* Shaping business finances in Latin America
* Driven by our 6 core values
* Proud of our inclusive and caring culture
* Certified as Top LinkedIn Startup

We offer

* Competitive salary & a robust stock ownership plan
* 100% flexible work model
* A set of benefits that are adaptable to your needs & way of life
* Opportunities for growth in a fast-paced environment
* A chance to shape B2B payments in Latin America and increase the region’s economic competitiveness