Staff Product Manager
Laurel
Laurel’s Mission to Return Time:
We’re a team that is connected by time. Life has taught us its true value and finite nature. We value every minute and are on a mission to return time. And we live and breathe that mission in everything we do — from how we build our product that saves our customers time to how we operate as a company.
Come work with a team that’s intelligent yet humble, visionary yet gets things done. A team that’s only getting started at cracking a problem that affects every person who uses a screen to work.
Come build a company that will stand the test of time as we look to understand time itself.
We all waste a staggering amount of time at work (~33%) because we have no idea where we are spending it. Worse yet, we continue to operate in a factory model that simply does not apply to creative work. Our big bet is that by understanding time, we’ll be able to move away from it as a unit of value. In the future knowledge economy (lawyers, accountants, engineers), contributions will be assessed on value added, not the underlying time spent adding it.
Ambitious mission to say the least, so where are we starting? We have created a new market category called Time Automation that automates the timekeeping process for professionals and allows us to collect time data at scale. Before Laurel, professionals had to manually record every six minutes of their day into antiquated timekeeping software. Not anymore. We are moving away from a world in which humans tell a machine what they did at work, to our version of the world in which the machine tells the human.
We are looking for individuals who share our passion of returning time. Come join us on our journey as we spend time solving time. It will be a long road but if we’re even half right, we’ll change the way work is measured and performed forever.
Why You Should Be Excited About Laurel:
First-Mover Advantage: We stand as the global first movers in applying AI to time within professional services.
Expertise in Technology and Domain: Our experience encompasses the development and deployment of AI tools tailored for professional services over many learnings.
World-Class Team: We've assembled a team consisting of some of the foremost talents in AI, product development, and engineering within the tech industry.
Exceptional Investor Support: To date, we've secured $55 million in funding from renowned venture capitalists worldwide, as well as notable individuals like Marc Benioff and Gokul Rajaram.
Mission-Driven Organization: Our overarching mission revolves around restoring time to the global community, empowering individuals to focus on the three hours of impactful work each day while giving the remainder back to society.
Laurel’s AI-Time software has applications across many different verticals — with our initial foothold being enterprises in the professional services industry. This is a complex product that requires AI, a simple yet intuitive user experience, an agent and cloud-based integrations to capture a professional’s digital footprint, and integrations into firms’ billing and accounting systems.
About the Role:
Laurel is in search of a Product Manager with the capability to grasp the product's vision, contribute to defining the product strategy, and subsequently transform that strategy into world-class execution.
As a product manager, you will collaborate with and guide a diverse cross-functional team consisting of engineers, data scientists, and product designers. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the product effectively caters to our users' requirements, continually evolves to address their key challenges, and delivers on our mission of returning time.
Core Duties:
- Drive growth and retention with our timekeepers.
- Define the product vision and strategy with the VP of Product, translate into a product roadmap, and deliver outcomes.
- Break down the product roadmap into scoping and product requirement docs with technical counterparts
- Deliver outcome innovation, not only product innovations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with enterprise customers, understanding their evolving needs and translating them into product opportunities
- Solicit and analyze buyer feedback, user feedback, and data-driven insights to deliver product value for timekeepers
- Partner with the AI team to define an innovation roadmap that maintains our leadership-position within the marketplace
- Influence others internally and externally without authority, while building trust and collaboration
- Be the voice of the user and drive user empathy at Laurel
Required Skills and Experience:
- 7+ years of experience in product management, with specific time spent in B2B Saas scaling beyond $25M ARR
- Proven track record of leading teams through rapid experimentation, iteration and learning cycles having growth, retention, or PLG workflows.
- Must be able to excel in both strategy and hands-on execution.
- Excellence in stakeholder management and cross-functional partnership. Drives clarity in ambiguous situations, and calmness under high-pressure scenarios.
- Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to “do then document” workflows.
- Must be able to build rapport, collaboration and trust with internal and external stakeholders alike.
Added Bonus:
- Building for and getting adoption at complex enterprises with top-down go-to-market motions
- Previous experience with a data- and AI-centric product
- Background in management consulting, Business Operations
Flexibility and Logistics:
- Location: This role will be based in our company offices in San Francisco and hybrid at least 3 days per week. We may consider candidates based in LA with the ability to work hybrid from our Los Angeles office.
- Additional Benefits: Comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage with covered premiums, 401(k), and additional benefits including wellness/commuter/FSA stipends.
- Compensation: Competitive salary, generous equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision coverage with covered premiums, 401(k), additional benefits including wellness/commuter/FSA stipends. For candidates based in San Francisco, CA, the compensation range for this role is $170,000-$230,000 USD. Final compensation amounts will be determined based on several factors including candidate experience, qualifications and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed.
- Visa Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
- What happens if my kid or I are sick on a workday? Take all the time you need! We’ll cover for you. And send you some soup.
Laurel's Commitment: We encourage diverse perspectives and rigorous thinkers who aren't afraid to challenge the status quo. Laurel is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Not sure if you meet the qualifications? Keep reading…
At Laurel, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge the status quo. If you’re interested in joining us on our mission to return time, then we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t perfectly match every single bullet on the job description. We promise to review your application. Laurel is an equal opportunity employer, and we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment, free from discrimination or harassment, for all employees.