Product Manager

Job Description

Reports to: VP Customer Experience

Location: Remote (must be able to overlap with NYC working hours by at least 4 hours)

About Harvest

Harvest is an independent software company making tools that help businesses run more smoothly. We believe that businesses only succeed by using their time intentionally. Our products support our customers in helping them track, report, and forecast time. For the past 15 years, our customers have relied on us as a critical part of their day-to-day operations.

Harvest started as a team of 3 and grew slowly to today’s current total of over 60 lovely faces. Though we were historically based out of NYC, we hire the best people for the job no matter where they may call home. We work hard to make sure everyone feels included and heard. And we offer great benefits, including bonuses, a generous vacation policy, paid parental leave, team outings (in non-pandemic times), and much more.

The Product team and why we’re hiring

We’re growing to match our bold and ambitious next phase of Harvest. We’re looking for a Product Manager to expand our small team, help us meet the product challenges on our horizon, and to help evolve the product to establish Harvest as the world’s most preferred platform for unlocking the potential of every team’s time.

The Product team currently consists of two Product Managers and three Product Designers. This team is a part of the Customer Experience department, which comprises Product, Services, and Data teams. The Product Manager reports directly to our VP of Customer Experience

What you’ll do

• In partnership with your manager, you’ll identify high-value product opportunities that align with our product vision and OKRs.
• You’ll create and execute research plans to surface insights and gain understanding of a product problem, either solo or in collaboration with others.
• You’ll craft documents and presentations of clearly defined problems with well-considered solutions and hypothesized outcomes to help the team understand and get on board with your ideas.
• You’ll take ownership of these opportunities, and work across teams to carry them through completion, outcome, and iteration.
• You’ll keep your team aligned, encouraged, and motivated to create the best product for our customers.
• You’ll assess key outcomes of your team’s work, link projects back to measurable customer value (KRs and company goals), and make and defend decisions around iteration
• You’ll mentor teammates to help them do their best work

Who you are

• You’re a great communicator, excellent writer, and pride yourself in your ability to work across teams and areas of expertise to align people around your ideas.
• You’re collaborative, and know when and who to pull in to drive ideas forward successfully.
• You’re data savvy, and have a history of using data to inform product recommendations.
• You’re technically savvy and know enough to navigate functional requirements where appropriate.
• You have strong analytical and strategic thinking and the ability to use data and research to inform decisions and inspire new avenues for exploration.
• You can communicate the value of your work clearly, succinctly, and in a timely manner, aka share the “why” across all constituents in the organization.
• You’re able to drive toward key results and navigate trade-offs.
• You embrace a challenge, persist in the face of setbacks, understand give-take priorities, champion an open disagree-and-commit dialog, and are inspired by the success of others.
• You have a track record for solving problems with real business impact and have owned setting, building, and validating impact hypotheses. You are outcome-focused.
• You are self-directed, curious, patient, love learning, and are not afraid to fail. You enjoy working independently without much supervision.
• You like small teams. You want to get to know people by name, and you’re not shy about starting something from scratch.
• You value a distributed and diverse work culture. Working side-by-side with co-workers from around the world is something you cherish.
• You value design and product excellence and craftsmanship over growth-for-growth's-sake.
• You understand the importance of your role to influence, support, and motivate others.
• You have expertise in project management.
• 2+ years experience in product management
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking and the ability to use data and research to inform decisions and inspire new avenues for exploration
• Expertise in project management

At Harvest, our compensation consists of three main components:

• A competitive base pay: Every Harvester with the same role expectations receives the same base pay. And we aim to pay at the top of the market (informed by third-party data) for all roles.
• Individual and company performance bonus plans: We believe in rewarding performance, so all Harvesters are eligible to receive an individual and company performance bonus after working with Harvest for a period of time.
• Competitive benefits*: We offer a number of benefits, including
  • 15 days of vacation in your first year, plus company holidays and a week off for winter break. And you’ll get an additional two days per year until you reach twenty days.
  • 100% coverage of health insurance premiums across our medical, dental, and vision plan offerings for you, your spouse, and your dependents
  • A yearly budget for your professional learning and development goals
  • 401k planning with a 6% company match after three months with the company
  • 16 weeks of paid family leave to all new parents with the option to use it all at once or throughout the baby’s first year as well as a virtual platform providing support across fertility, pregnancy, adoption, and through your first year of parenting
  • A charitable giving matching program to support your contributions to your favorite charitable organizations
  • And much more...

*Some of the benefits described are only available to U.S.-based Harvesters. Benefits information for non-U.S.-based Harvesters will be provided to individuals who interview for those roles.