Product Manager, Afresh
$121-164k
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SaaS for grocery store operations
Open for applications
SaaS for grocery store operations
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$121-164k
More information about location
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 Store Operations, 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
- You'll 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
Outdated inventory systems remain a major issue for grocers, particularly when it comes to fresh food. Many still rely on manual processes or rigid software that struggles to account for constantly changing factors like demand, shelf life and supply fluctuations. The result is over-ordering, wasted food and unnecessary costs, all problems that become even harder to manage at scale.
Afresh is tackling this with an AI-powered platform built specifically for fresh food operations. Its system helps grocers forecast demand, manage inventory and make smarter ordering decisions across categories like produce, meat and bakery. What started as a replenishment tool has expanded into a broader operating system, supporting planning, buying and day-to-day decision-making across store teams.
The company has grown quickly too, now supporting more than 12,000 grocery departments across North American and partnering with major retailers like Albertsons, Meijer and Wakefern. Following a year of strong growth and new product launches, Afresh is expanding its reach across the food supply chain, with ambitions that go beyond the store level. As pressure mounts on grocers to reduce waste and improve margins, Afresh is ready to be a key player in bringing AI-driven decision-making to the entire fresh food ecosystem.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
- Professional development program
- Work from home stipend
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt Schwartz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Afresh in 2016, Matt worked as a Consultant for Bain & Company.
Nathan Fenner
(Co-Founder & CPO)Nathan 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 for 5 years.
Kristina Kemmer
(CTO)Kristina joined Afresh in 2023 as a Senior VP of Engineering, moving into the role of CTO in 2025. Prior to Afresh, she spent 4 years at Zapier as a Director/VP of Engineering and 2 years at InVision as an Engineering, then Senior Engineering Manager.
Adam Litle
(CRO)Prior to joining Afresh in 2025, Adam was the CEO of Sound Agriculture for over 5 years. He also served as the CRO at Granular for nearly 3 years and worked as a VP of Sales at Monetate for 1 year.
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