About Us
Chiku is a seed stage company focused on the broad senior care market. The name Chiku comes from the tropical chiku fruit. It contributes to overall health and wellness of the body and resonates strongly with our mission of making a huge impact on the health and wellness of seniors. The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs with a successful track record across multiple industries. If you share our mission of making a huge impact on this rapidly growing population by bringing innovative solutions to market, leveraging the latest advances in AI and hardware, please reach out to us.
About the Role
As our first Product Manager reporting to our CEO, you will have the opportunity to shape our product development process and leave a lasting impact on the company. You’ll be responsible for owning different parts of the customer journey, including customer onboarding experience, and steer product features that will drive adoption and engagement amongs seniors and their caregivers.
As a seed-stage company, we are looking for an extremely strong executor who can quickly span across product domains. From conducting market research to developing growth strategies, to executing and delivering on highly technical solutions with engineering teams, the ideal candidate is entrepreneurial at heart, most comfortable when sitting at the intersection of business, technology and creativity, and able to bring deep product expertise from past experience building in consumer technology or the senior care space. You are excited about working alongside the founders to bring Chiku’s product and dev process to the next level.
You will work at the forefront of the business, collaborating closely on the launch of a new product initiative with our founders and other business stakeholders to drive the growth of the business.
This role offers exceptional exposure to all aspects of the company and opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
Responsibilities
- Research and synthesize technology trends, competitive trends, and user feedback to identify new product and technology opportunities - Collaborate with software engineering and design teams to define roadmap and strategy
- Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
- Negotiate and influence product trade-offs impacting schedule and usability to improve user experience and consumer differentiation - Drive a growth strategy to delight users and drive habitual usage of Chiku
- Launch new technologies and features worldwide in conjunction with marketing communications, corporate communications, events, and developer relations teams
- Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
- Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
- Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
- Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
Requirements and skills
- 5+ years experience having led multiple product development cycles from concept to launch
- Proven record working collaboratively with engineering, design, and marketing peers
- Strong understanding of the intelligent voice assistant and AI/ML technology domains
- Technical track record working closely with engineering/technical teams
- Strong ability to lead through influence, debate and storytelling
- Experience and ability to synthesize technologies into product communication for broad audience including customers, media, analysts, and leading industry specialists
- Best-in-class oral and written communication skills
- Press and media experience with success as a product spokesperson on a national or global level
- Strong attention to detail
- Willingness to travel
- A self-starter who is dedicated and demonstrates creative and critical thinking abilities
Compensation & Benefits
- The salary range for this role will be very competitive with market rates for our size and industry and will be based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills
- At Chiku, you'll enjoy benefits that include health & wellness and work/life balance offerings.
- Chiku employees also enjoy generous paid time off and leave programs, commuter benefits, team events, snacks and other perks
Why Chiku?
- Develop cutting edge technologies in a creative, innovative, and fun environment
- Imagine new opportunities in areas that matter and will impact the world you live in
- Be a part of a high performing team of the world’s best innovators and executors
- Flexible work arrangements to support you in working in the way that you work best
- Do great work that matters, in healthcare, for customers who could really use your help
- Zero commute. Work wherever you are, globally (but on or around US Eastern Time hours)
- Our values: care, joy, and trust
Chiku is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws (“protected characteristics” or “protected categories”). At Chiku, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.