About Hyper:
At Hyper, we are building a platform that enables anyone to begin accepting payments in a matter of minutes. We believe that businesses are, at a fundamental level, problem-solving vehicles, and are convinced that the most high-leverage problem we can solve in the world is to make basic tools for entrepreneurship available to everyone. Our culture is based on the principles of adventure, optimism, experimentation, listening, and passion.
- We are mission-driven and dedicated
- We believe in community
- We embrace challenge
- We are customer-obsessed
- We believe deeply in the world we are trying to create
We are backed by Y-Combinator, General Catalyst, and Stripe. And we're seeking listeners, executors, and those who take initiative. We never underestimate our colleagues, and we never underestimate our customers. We treat every customer as if they could be making hundreds of thousands of dollars within their first week using Hyper — because we've seen it happen.
What You’ll Do:
- Deeply understand user needs by spending time with customers, sales, and support and observing patterns across their feedback and the market
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for a suite of products and infrastructure to help platforms take advantage of our offerings and customer requests
- Drive initially ambiguously defined projects across the broader company
- Invest in targeted ambitious bets to drastically move the field forward while taking advantage of Hyper’s existing strengths
Competencies & Skills:
- Experience or passion for the Discord and community space
- You have extensive experience building, developing, and scaling product organizations, supporting hundreds of engineers cross functionally
- You are a creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company engineering and design
- You have experience managing technical software products from kick-off to ship
- You do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, whether that means write a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration
- Beyond just shipping new products, you obsess about continuous product improvement and can optimize for different types of releases
Why you'll love working at Hyper:
- Amazing team culture of supportive, kind, and smart colleagues
- Beautiful office in Palo Alto
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Unlimited time off, with 3 weeks minimum taken each year
- 15 days sick leave (and more if needed!), voting leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
- Commuter Benefits
- 401k
- Lunch and Dinner via Uber eats
Physical Characteristics of Work Environment:
- Office-based work environment
- Typing and computer usage throughout the day
- Typical working hours Monday-Friday, with ad hoc weekend work
- Travel requirements: as requested
We're looking for passionate people who strive to have leverage over the world around them. If you think you’re fit for the role, don’t worry if you’re not an exact match for the description—apply anyway. You never know what might happen :)
Disclaimers:
Hyper provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.