Product Manager - Accounting

About the role

As a member of the Product Management team, you will work with a cross-functional team to plan, design, and develop new features focused on the core experience for our users. 

You will participate in the full lifecycle of product development, including conducting research & discovery to understand our members’ problems, developing a product roadmap, being the owner of the PDR (Product Development Requirements) and the RFC (Request for Comments), running sprint planning meetings and standups, and collaborating with partner teams to deliver a cohesive product experience. You’ll partner with design to come up with solutions that make money feel simple and approachable. You’ll define and analyze metrics that measure product success & health. Most importantly, you’ll challenge the status quo and inspire people toward a unified outcome.

What's Firstbase.io?

Firstbase, a YC-backed company, is building an all-in-one Company OS to help define how founders across the globe launch, manage, and grow their businesses.

More than twenty thousand founders from over 180 countries have used our incorporation product, Firstbase Start, to launch their startups. For many founders, "firstbase.io" has become what they type into their address bars when they consider incorporating a business. 

We are backed by Y Combinator & our team, investors, and advisors include people from Apple, Gusto, Carta, Wise, Plaid, and many other great companies.

Why you should join?

Firstbase is much more than just incorporation. Our team is dedicated to building products & solving some of the startups’ hardest problems, with particular focus on:

• Democratizing access to financial infrastructure

• Automating tasks every founder faces when running a business

• Making tools and resources more accessible to everyone, everywhere

• Building integrated solutions for founders and removing friction

• Delivering opportunities to traditionally overlooked founders and companies

• Democratizing access to knowledge

Join us on a mission to help more companies succeed!

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for risk-takers with diverse experience who can provide fearless feedback.

You will have the following duties:

• Lead the full Firstbase Accounting product development lifecycle for key consumer-facing features that impact our founders' lives and our core business

• Collaborate with a team of designers, engineers, and analysts to identify opportunities for new product experiences and improvements

• Conduct customer research to deeply understand our members’ financial problems and anxieties to inform future product development

• Drive team execution by defining roadmap epics, feature stories, and overseeing the implementation and development

• Collaborate with our growth and business operation teams to plan and run experiments to learn and optimize our product experiences

• Identify KPIs used to inform the product roadmap and measure success to drive product iteration

You should meet the following requirements:

• Strong consumer product and user experience instincts - you have a knack for understanding what people want and making an experience meet and exceed their expectations

• Radical thinking paired with strong execution - can envision a world different than the status quo with the ability to articulate a clear path to get there

• While you can dream big, you also know when and how to ruthlessly prioritize and ship quickly to learn and iterate

• Creative problem solver - able to identify real obstacles and viable solutions

• Self-motivated, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Not hesitant to get hands dirty and do whatever is necessary to ensure success

• 4+ years of product management experience

• Relevant knowledge about accounting and bookkeeping in the USA

• Comfortable getting into the weeds on a variety of technical issues

• Ability to execute in a fast-paced and fluid startup environment

• Has worked with varied teams and multiple stakeholders to launch features

Some perks you might enjoy:

• Competitive salary & equity

We lean on some of the best market data to ensure that we offer the most competitive compensation.

• Hybrid work environment

We work both remotely & from our offices in New York City in São Paulo – optimizing for collaboration while providing flexibility to team members.

• 21 days of PTO + birthday off

We offer flexibility to allow people to relax and recharge whenever they need it.

• Build your ideal work setup

We understand that how you work is extremely important, so we provide a stipend to set you up for success here at Firstbase.

• Health benefits

Firstbase offers health insurance reimbursements to both US and international employees.

• Learning & development

We provide a stipend together with resources to help people grow and develop in their careers.

• Amazing annual bonuses

Every team at Firstbase has a bonus structure which usually accounts for 10% of OTE.

If you think you're unqualified or don't meet all the requirements for this role, we encourage you to still apply. We celebrate diverse candidates, adjacent experiences, and simply put, good people who want to build great things. If that's you, then we'd love to meet.