Principal Product Manager, Minted
Customization Platform
$141.5-202.3k
Salary dependent on location. This role is eligible for bonus and stock options
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
Be an early applicant
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$141.5-202.3k
Salary dependent on location. This role is eligible for bonus and stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To uncover the world’s best creative talent.
Role
Who you are
- A platform evangelist who loves to revamp technical infrastructure to unlock high business value
- Results oriented. You are most comfortable in work environments which are outcome-oriented and merit-based, and are highly motivated by goal accomplishment in the face of stringent deadlines
- Data driven. You make your product decisions based on data. You passionately own quality delivery in your product area, keep a continuous health check
- Detail-oriented. You are able to identify and resolve edge cases as well as functional details in order to deliver a high-quality product experience
- Receptive to change. You are flexible, adaptable, innovative, and open in response to competitive pressure and market change
- A systems thinker. You intuitively understand interdependencies, ask follow-up questions, and drive to solutions that balance the success of initiatives across revenue, quality, brand, and cost goals
- A collaborative thinker. You enjoy an environment that has been structured for collaboration and interdependencies
- A strong communicator with the ability to communicate effectively, create common knowledge, generate buy-in, and influence stakeholders and senior management towards recommended decisions
- Someone with excellent product judgment, the ability to make sound decisions based on tradeoffs of different solutions, complex problems, various stakeholders, and many constraints
- A deeply technical Product Manager; you are as fascinated by the technical solutions as the primary engineers in this space
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience building and changing scaled platforms. Ideally, with a focus on image creation and management at scale. Familiar with GenAI workflows, RAG and data infrastructure
- Experience in the web to print industry; high-speed printing presses and the raster image processing needed for high quality print products
- 5+ years product management experience, building and shipping ecommerce or direct-to-consumer successful products and features
- Superb analytical skills and ability to effectively use data to investigate and solve problems and make decisions
- Demonstrated an understanding of technology/architecture and effective partnership with engineering to identify technical solutions based on tradeoffs of user experience, technical debt, latency, scalability, reliability, time to market etc
- Project management skills: Ability to plan, set expectations, make and meet commitments. Provide structure, process and project management to cross-functional teams
- Intense commitment to quality: Demonstrated focus on quality of product/customer experience and testing/debugging
What the job involves
- This role will oversee the multi-year transformation of Minted’s customization platform to enable customers to personalize their ideal stationery and art designs
- Minted’s artist community contributes winning designs which our customers use to celebrate the important moments in their lives: weddings, new babies, birthdays, holidays, graduation, and beyond
- Our premium products rely on a robust and flexible platform for rendering images, photos, text and color on phones, computer screens, and for physical printing. We seek to incorporate new AI capabilities to improve customization power and product quality
- Quickly develop a strong grasp of Minted’s customization use cases, technical capabilities and gaps by exploring our tech stack, user data, and tech ecosystem opportunities
- In close partnership with engineering and product partners, outline and then execute a multi-year replatform strategy designed to unlock value along the way
- Incorporate feedback from product, business and eng partners throughout the workflow: creating of designs, customization of designs and printing of designs. Document these use cases
- Identify possible technology partners, evaluate them and make build/buy recommendations
- Develop and propose a phased roadmap and resourcing model for executing this strategy. That resourcing model should leverage existing and new talent
- Coordinate this program across different teams of product managers, engineers and stakeholders to ensure product success
- Drive product execution including project kickoffs, daily scrums, sprint planning, maintaining product specs, rollout plan and backlog
- Define, monitor, and report on key success metrics for engagement and uptake of newly launched products
- Balance the operational needs of the organization on the existing platform and help us focus on the replacement of that platform
Application process
- Anticipated Start Date: August 1, 2025
Our take
Minted is a design marketplace, sourcing creative content from a global community of artists, using technology and crowdsourcing to give consumers access to independent creatives unavailable through traditional retailers.
With the success of sites like Etsy enabling consumers to buy direct from artisans, Minted sets itself apart by holding monthly art and design challenges which are open for both submission and voting. The ‘crowd’ curates Minted’s product selection by rating products, and Minted utilizes analytics to evaluate votes. The winning designs go into production which is taken care of by Minted's fulfillment house and the designers receive a 6%-10% cut of the sales.
Its unique ‘design by upvoting’ business model has led to almost $300m in funding, with backing from Benchmark Capital and IDG Ventures. As contests draw in more designers, the company is looking to expand beyond Minted.com and into physical retail, finding new ways to use the designs and creating fresh income streams for themselves and their artists.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2018
$208m
SERIES E
Oct 2014
$38m
SERIES D
Total funding: $297.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mariam Naficy
(Executive Chairman & Co-Founder)Previously served as the company's Co-CEO. Previously Member of the Board Of Directors at Medium, Yelp, Polyvore. Founder & co-CEO at Eve.com for 2 years and Vice-President and General Manager at The Body Shop for 3 years.
Melissa Kim
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Associate at The Boston Consulting Group for 2 years and Manager - Corporate Strategy at eBay also for 2 years.
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