Product Manager, Afresh Technologies
iPad Ordering
SaaS for grocery store operations
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SaaS for grocery store operations
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years as a PM shipping customer-facing software in a fast-paced environment
- Proven track record of improving an in-market product: balance bugs and tech debt with new value, ship incremental, low-risk rollouts
- Technical fluency: Understands the basics of web app and mobile architecture, can read an API spec and make calls to it, write basic SQL or experienced with at least 1 programming language
- Analytical decision-making: define useful metrics, synthesize qual and quant; A/B tests or phased rollouts a plus
- Ownership Mindset: incidents, SLAs, alerting, on-call coordination, and follow-ups that drive lasting fixes
- Clear communicator who writes crisp PRDs and change specs and aligns cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience with rapidly creating prototypes using generative coding tools
- We encourage all highly qualified candidates to apply, even if you don’t meet every bullet
What the job involves
- As the PM for iPad Store Ordering, you’ll steward our flagship store ordering product, used by tens of thousands of grocery departments nationwide
- You’ll own working with our current customers, prioritizing our roadmap, and maximizing the impact of a solution that is already driving 100s of millions of pounds of food waste each year
- You'll work closely with product design, machine learning engineers, and mobile and full-stack engineers to improve the holistic experience
- Your ownership, attention to detail, and your obsession with outcomes will lead to both short and long term rewards: every incremental bit of performance you can deliver will directly result in less food waste
- Steward and improve iPad Store Ordering for performance, reliability, and shrink and sales impact
- Own roadmap and prioritization, balancing customer commitments, tech debt, and new value with pragmatic trade-offs
- Partner with Data and ML to monitor and evolve forecasting and ordering policies, adding guardrails to avoid regressions
- Strengthen adherence and input quality across display controls, overrides, and detection of “gaming.”
- Lead cross-functional delivery and change management for multi-chain rollouts
- Ensure reliability at scale: SLAs, incident response, telemetry, alerting, and on-call playbooks
- Maintain customer relationships and translate feedback into priorities. Track accuracy, adoption, adherence, and impact; support GTM on renewals
Our take
Antiquated inventory management systems are detrimental to grocers' money and time. Generalized and paper-based systems result in the over-purchase of stock, and this results in waste of fresh food and financial budgets.
Afresh has created an operating system designed specifically to manage inventory and sales of fresh food. The system is powered by AI to help provide forecasting and analysis of inventories, helping grocers stock more economically and thus waste less fresh food.
The company has grown rapidly in recent years, and has partnered with thousands of stores in 40 states across the US. Clients include Albertsons, WinCo Foods, Heinen's, Save Mart, Bashas and Cub Foods.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$115m
SERIES B
Nov 2020
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $147.8m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- Generous parental leave
- Equity packages
- 401k matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Monthly grocery stipend
- Professional development program
- Monthly physical / mental health stipend
- Work from home stipend
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt Schwartz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a consultant for Bain before going on to pursue their passion for food systems. They also previously founded Statfoods.
Volodymyr Kuleshov
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Has a PhD in computer science from Stanford. Alongside Afresh, they are an Assistant Professor in the technology department at Cornell.
Nathan Fenner
(Co-Founder)Has a Bachelors, Masters and MBA from Stanford University. Post studying, they became a Lecturer at Stanford in the Mechanical Engineering department before working at Liquid Robotics.
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