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Employees15
Salary70-160/YR USD
FulltimeYes
TelecommuteNo
IndustryWeb 2.0, Database, Enterprise, Social Networking, Identity Management
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Master of Product Management

at Rapleaf in San Francisco, CA   —   Dec 18, 2008   |  
The Rapleaf SignFounders and Early TeamGorilla MarketingDinner in the OfficeHard at Work
Overview
Role:
- First product manager in the company and holistic owner of all the Rapleaf products
- Take charge with respect to product definitions, market requirements, product designs, and product strategy/roadmap
- Pro-actively work with management and partners to establish development priorities and essentially influence the direction and prioritization of engineering efforts
- Work closely with Rapleaf’s customers and potential customers to get feedback for new features and products
- Work closely with engineers to produce quick and powerful product iterations
- Quickly integrate feedback and research from existing and potential customers to define and evolve the business products
- Create the API docs (and other technical documentation), the API look and feel, and how developers would consume the API
- Help sell to existing business customers
- Report directly to the CEO

Qualifications:
- Proven track record of defining product requirements and producing successful products
- comfortable working with terabytes of data.
- Strong understanding of APIs and API documentation
- Solid experience building wireframes and mock-ups
- Outstanding coordination skills with the ability to effectively work across functional teams including sales, engineering, operations, and marketing
- Extremely hard working. This is a start-up - team members work long hours
- Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy
- Thrive on working with A-players. Too good to spend long hours with B-players
- One of the smartest people you know. Ambitious to change the world
- A software engineer or technical leader of sorts in a past life (this is a technical role that will require coding from time to time)
- Best communicator alive
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Entrepreneurial, high energy and committed to excellence
- Leader who is respected on and off the job
- Thrive on chaos, risk, uncertainty and decisively takes action
- Should be personable, ethical, and low-maintenance
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society
- Should want to live in or near San Francisco (relocation package available)

Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA

Perks:
- High cash comp | high equity — Rapleaf is willing to pay for the best talent.
- Personal MacBook Pro or Windows based machine
- Medical insurance, 401k.
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Work with some of the smartest engineers in the world

Our philosophy: A-players dominate. Have fewer people who get more done.

We’re only looking for people that want to help change the world. Interested? Please email jobs@rapleaf.com

p.s. If you are not interested, we pay $10,007 referral bonus if you refer us to the person we hire.
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