At Instawork, our mission is to create meaningful economic opportunities for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals in communities around the world. We're building the leading AI-powered labor marketplace—and we're looking for exceptional talent to help us scale quickly and make an even greater impact. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re transforming the way the world works.
With our mission comes great responsibility - many of our Pros depend on Instawork to make rent, to buy their kid that special birthday present, to get out of debt, to learn new skills on the job, and ultimately to forge a better life. As do our business Partners - from national scale hotel brands and major league baseball to the family-run coffee shop around the corner that needs an extra barista.
As a Product Operations Manager, you are empowered to influence outcomes in the backbone of the American economy that ultimately, even in the age of AI, still comes down to good people doing honest work.
What You’ll Do:
- Work closely with product, design, operations, and engineering to create our outreach and rollout plans for some of our most important features with our users.
- As part of the product development lifecycle, you will test new capabilities, learn, and influence the product/engineering team to update the roadmap, and scale it through software.
- Contribute to company OKRs, having a firm grasp on key operational metrics to maintain & grow the health of our customer base.
- Lead ad-hoc special projects, working alongside stakeholders in cross-functional teams (ie. finance, marketing, sales, product, and customer support).
- Run analyses on launched features to determine next steps.
- Provide feedback on the user experience to our product and engineering teams.
- Manage our community of the best professionals on our platform to drive meaningful engagement.
- Stay up to speed on the priorities and coming product launches of your assigned product development teams.
Who You Are:
- Product Experience: 5+ years of Product Operations experience delivering highly successful and innovative products that you're deeply proud of but still wish were a little bit better.
- Intellectually curious: Excited at the opportunity to drive the company forward by tackling the most critical challenge.
- An AI enthusiast: You’re up to date on the latest AI technology and have been trying out different tools that help give builders superpowers.
- Experience with automation tools such as Zapier, UiPath or Power Automate.
- Strong analytical and statistical skills and experience defining and understanding A/B testing, funnel analysis, and go-to-market playbooks.
- Able to understand when to use your strong analytical skills and when to use your qualitative user empathy skills to solve problems.
- Technically proficient: You have written at least one line of code that worked, and are very comfortable with SQL and/or other data analysis tools.
- Willingness to roll your sleeves up to accomplish tasks, as well as strategic thinking at a high level.
Nice To Have:
- Experience as a Team Lead. Driving team performance, streamlining Product Ops working processes in order to maximize the team’s impact.
- Experience working on growth teams and / or marketplace businesses.
For CA based applicants:
- The base salary for this position is $130,000 - $200,000
- This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
- This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including:
- A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 8 paid company holidays annually
- Home office stipend
- Phone stipend
- Commuter stipend
- Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
- Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
- Flexible spending plans
- 401K plan
- Perkspot - discount program through Lumity
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.
About Instawork
Founded in 2015, Instawork is the leading flexible work app for local, hourly professionals. Its digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than five million workers, filling a critical role in local economies. Instawork has been featured on CBS News, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Associated Press, and more. In 2022, Instawork was ranked among the country’s top 10% of fastest-growing companies by Inc. 5000 and was included in the Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startup list. Instawork was also named the 2022 ACE Award recipient for “Best Innovation” and one of the “Best Business Apps” by Business Insider. Instawork helps businesses in the food & beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent job opportunities in more than 25 markets across the U.S. and Canada.
At Instawork, we constantly evaluate how to build an optimal work environment for success. Currently we operate on a hybrid model, but we remain open to adapting our policies to meet the needs of our evolving business and team dynamics. As we continue to grow, we're seeking candidates who are excited about contributing to our in-person culture and open to the idea of working in-office up to 5 days a week.
For more information visit www.instawork.com
We value diversity on our team and firmly believe Instawork is stronger when we hire people who make their own unique contributions to our culture. We welcome all applicants and encourage candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
To learn more about our company values, please visit: https://info.instawork.com/about
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What We Do
Our digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than six million workers, actively working to help bridge the labor demand/supply gap. Instawork helps businesses in food & beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent roles in more than 40 U.S. markets.
We have been fortunate to be funded by world-class investors in Silicon Valley including: Benchmark (Bill Gurley), Y Combinator, Spark Capital, Google Ventures, Greylock Capital, Four Rivers Group, Craft Ventures, and many more. Leveraging our accelerated growth, we will continue to expand throughout the U.S. and globally in order to revolutionize the labor market.
Instawork recently raised $60 million in Series D financing, bringing a total funding to over $160 million. The new funding round allows Instawork to accelerate investment in its AI-powered mobile app and platform that connects over 6 million skilled hourly workers with tens of thousands of businesses.
Our values help us craft impactful products and be extraordinary colleagues to each other:
Empathy, Trust, and Candor
Being empathetic helps build trust in our community and company, and fosters successful decision-making.
Always Be Learning
We learn eagerly, from different teams within and outside the company. Respectful debate makes our company stronger.
Act Like an Owner
We have a strong ownership mentality. Every person on the team has the potential to make a huge impact.
Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, despite encountering ambiguity frequently.
Why Work With Us
Our team is composed of talented individuals who are passionate about our mission, continuously learning from one another and encouraging each other to achieve their full potential. We believe that failure is not a setback, but an opportunity to learn and apply those lessons toward future growth. We also make sure to have some fun along the way.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We ask that all employees near a hub location come into the office Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
