Technical Product Manager

Alokai is an award-winning and pioneering global technology startup setting a new standard in online shopping. Alokai is a Frontend as a Service solution that simplifies composable commerce. It connects all the technologies needed to build and deploy fast & scalable ecommerce frontends.Founded in 2021, Alokai (prev. Vue Storefront) is a best-in-class composable commerce solution and market-leading Frontend as a Service currently used by 3000+ live stores around the world. With a remote, global team of 100+ people and offices in San Francisco and Warsaw, Poland, customers include Movado, SPAR Inc., or Brompton Bikes. Supported by 130+ partners and a community of 10,000+ developers, Alokai and its leaders are recipients of several industry awards, including Europe’s top tech startup prize and recognition from Forbes magazine.

Alokai is a Frontend-as-a-Service that provides several tools to help customers build performant, scalable, and customizable eCommerce storefronts. From UI libraries and integrations, to deployment and monitoring, we help businesses to build the ideal headless commerce experience.

Our products help development teams from the top enterprise companies worldwide to build outstanding frontend experiences leveraging composable architecture. We accelerate the groundwork, empower with best practices, and simplify the most complex scenarios. We were the first to market this type of product in 2017, and since then, we have strengthened our market leader position through fast innovation and a deep understanding of customers' problems. 

What’s the product you’ll be responsible for?

Alokai Storefront and Alokai Connect are two key products in the Alokai stack that define our platform's frontend and integration capabilities.

Alokai Storefront is a fully customizable and extensible eCommerce storefront that incorporates all the industry best practices and provides a solid foundation for building any custom experiences. The goal of this product is to accelerate the process of building eCommerce Storefronts while providing enough architectural groundwork and best practice examples to ensure that customers are set for success when they customize the application and develop their own features.

Alokai Connect's orchestration layer abstracts the complexity of connecting multiple third-party services in the frontend by providing a single API allowing to access all of them. We provide an ecosystem of ready-to-use integrations with e-commerce backends, headless CMSs, search, and payment solutions, as well as an integration framework that allows companies to easily integrate anything else.

Both products are tied together with Unified Data Layer - our own data model that abstracts the underlying API’s and workflows and makes the storefront completely independent from any technology. This way customers can experiment with new technologies or migrate to new ones without reinvesting into the frontend.

As a Technical Product Manager, your goal will be to maximize the value customers get from both products by continuously improving current capabilities and researching new ones.

What will be your mission?

Put yourself in the shoes of a developer who has been tasked with the goal of bringing to life a headless commerce experience and answer the question of what tools can be delivered to them to make their lives easier:

• Define Alokai Storefront & Connect Strategy: Define and communicate a compelling data-driven product vision for Alokai Storefronts & Alokai Connect, ensuring that these plans align with the company’s strategic objectives and address customer needs.
• Lead Strategy Execution: Your strategy is as good as your ability to execute it. Work closely with two cross-functional engineering teams, inspire them and ensure the outcome of their daily work stimulates revenue growth.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Establish tight-knit relationships with engineering and go-to-market team, creating a seamless alignment of product strategy with overarching company objectives.
• User Centricity: talk to product users and prospects, understand their pain points and prioritise the problem to be solved first to make their lives easier. We deeply care about the experience of developers using Alokai’s product, and we need you to care as well ;)
• Risk Management: Identify potential business risks associated with product development, taking proactive measures to address and mitigate them.
  

  No one will know better than the one who has already been there before, that’s why we’re looking for a product manager with previous experience as a software engineer, ideally front-end.
  If you are looking for a highly visible and strategic individual contributor role and want to make a big impact in a fast-growing, dynamic company, this is an excellent fit for you!

What do we expect you to have?

• Experience: Minimum of 3 years in product management, with prior demonstrated experience as software engineer, ideally software engineer.
• If you are an experienced software engineer or developer advocate, with a strong business understanding, eager to move to a product position as next step in your career, your profile will be interesting for us as well!
• B2B/SaaS Products: A track record of managing B2B/SaaS products.
• Experience with building developer tools either as a creator, manager or contributor
• Experience with at least one of modern frontend frameworks like Vue.js, React, Angular etc.
• Data Analysis: Demonstrated use of data to make key business decisions.
• Operational Excellence: Hands-on experience in product operations, including customer feedback analysis.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills both within a team and in customer relations. Fluency in English is mandatory.
• Attitude & Approach: A proactive mindset of 'How we can make this better' in problem-solving, combined with a 'Growing as a human being' approach.

Sharing our values: 

• Vibe - you say what does not fit. You give feedback, and you listen to critical feedback as well.
• Self-driven - everyone's opinion is essential, but ownership is more important. You understand that someone has to take responsibility for the decision and how it affects the whole product or company.
• Focus - you stay aligned with what and how we act as a company. You move your WIGs (Wildly Important Goals) further. You take responsibility for your work and overlook the health of that area,

What can you expect?

• Senior and experienced team
• Budget and tools for your skills Growth
• Fully Remote work with flexible working hours
• Values-driven culture, friendly and supportive work environment
• Contract type tailored to your need
• Flat organizational structure: it helps to focus on what’s essential - have no barriers in communication, no Corpo-language, no going things around, no need to do things differently than most smartly and efficiently.
• Benefits: flexible working hours, working from wherever you want. Depends on the type of contract you choose.