Product Manager

Skylight is a technology startup building the OS of the family. We make Skylight Calendar, the smart calendar loved by millions of families (plus Wired and the Wirecutter). Our latest product is Calendar 2, which just launched to rave reviews.

Our mission is to connect loved ones by creating the world’s simplest products and services that improve family life. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs who have scaled this business to $300M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped and profitable. We get to grow a happy, healthy company focused on making products our customers love without investors breathing down our necks.

Smart, hardworking people who care about making actually meaningful products love working here. People like you. We’re busy inventing new ways to simplify family life and help parents raise great kids – and we need your help! Come invent something new with us.

About the Role:

Our ideal candidate is an entrepreneur at heart and has deep experience talking to customers and building lovable products. This candidate is comfortable wearing many hats and has an innate curiosity that drives the direction of their work.

You will report to our Chief Product Officer, working closely with the engineering, customer service, and marketing teams to transform Calendar into the operating system of the family, eventually used by millions of families daily.

The Family OS has many possible paths forward and your first job will be to define and validate the next major step forward. Within your first few months, you’ll shape a roadmap, prototype and validate your ideas with customers and work with design and engineers to bring them to life.

In addition you will:

• Set the product vision: develop a deep understanding of the competition, the customer, and the ways Skylight can help families. Use that and your creativity to propose and validate new products.
• Own the product roadmap: define the roadmap across and build features that both benefit customers and impact KPIs. You will ruthlessly prioritize features with a nose for value and scope a minimum lovable product to deliver features on time.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: work across engineering, design, and marketing teams to take these features to market with smooth rollouts and high feature adoption.
• Set and assess progress rigorously: you will set KPIs, monitor performance, and analyze data to deeply understand our users and the impact your product initiatives have. Your insights will drive future developments and organize the team around your strategy.

• You have 5-10 years of relevant experience
• You have a proven track record of building and owning impactful software products
• You are brimming with ideas, opinions and products that ought to be
• You have a knack for finding the novel insight and tend to be right
• You are endlessly curious and are on the edge of how product works in the AI-era
• You are comfortable operating independently, spotting ambiguity and proposing solutions
• You are data analytics savvy and take a data-driven approach to building product
• You are a great communicator and can simplify the complex.

Our competitive compensation package includes:

• Competitive Salary + Equity Package
• 401K matching
• Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
• Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
• Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (Except November & December)

Skylight is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you’re the best person for the job, we want you on board!

We hire across the U.S., but for legal reasons, we have to list NY and CO separately.

For Colorado-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $200-$240K based on experience and for California-based candidates, the range being offered for this role is $200-$240K based on experience. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of this law.

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.