This is a pretty crazy time. We’re all questioning how we’ve been living and how we want to live. And we’re looking for the next chapter of our work lives at a time when most companies and industries and products seem like a different universe from the visceral human feelings all around us.
We invite you to consider a very different kind of company and role, one that has direct, positive impact on people’s happiness.
What we do:
Because of old taboos, many paths in life people walk alone. Without the benefit of knowing what works for other people. These are fields that make research institutions, funders and companies uncomfortable, like sexual pleasure, ways we approach dying, and ways we mourn.
For Goodness Sake LLC exists to shine a light on these taboo and understudied parts of life. Our team of scientists gathers people’s experiences and wisdom through large-scale research. We find the patterns in what works for people and we design web experiences so those insights can benefit people around the world.
Our flagship product, OMGyes.com, tastefully and straightforwardly presents findings from the first-ever large-scale scientific study of sexual pleasure. Psychology Today called OMGYes, “warm, wise, tasteful and fun.” The Times called it, “nothing less than the next wave of an unfinished sexual revolution.” The Guardian called it, “fantastically refreshing.”
Now our team is growing so we can shine light on more life paths for more populations. And we’re looking for a senior product manager to come sit as a peer on our leadership team and help us define, prioritize and execute our product roadmap.
What you’d do day-to-day
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Bring your management best practices to the company, helping develop and evolve the PM function at For Goodness Sake.
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Lead development and execution of the product strategy to realize the goals you help set with the rest of the leadership team
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Create product road maps, and own the prioritization and development of products and features end-to-end
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Bridge product design, engineering and operational teams to establish shared consensus on product execution, setting and monitoring progress and milestones
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Identify opportunities to add value to our users and our business through features that improve the product experience and increase positive impact on our users.
What makes this opportunity unusual
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It’s an unusually humanitarian company whose benevolence and impact are directly reflected in your day-to-day work
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Competitive compensation for you — more pleasure and happiness and less stigma for humankind
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We get emails and messages every week from users reminding us that people all over the world are meaningfully benefiting from what we make.
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The opportunity to have a huge impact on the future direction of the company – sitting on the leadership team.
Big company stability and benefits — with small company culture
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We’re not going anywhere — we’ve been profitable ever since we launched in 2015.
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Casual, supportive, inclusive team who are passionate about the work
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Berkeley HQ – 25′ ceilings, natural light
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Located 3 minute walk from Ashby BART station
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99% paid health, dental and vision insurance
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4 weeks paid time off + 10 paid holidays
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Paid parental leave
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Wellness stipend (up to $150/month)
The ideal candidate
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Has a strong, high personal initiative work ethic
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Is curious, inquisitive and open minded. Wants to evolve, improve and take in diverse perspectives.
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Has deep empathy for both users and for other team members.
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Humble and self-aware
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Has a love for user-research. From watching users react to prototypes to imagining new ways they could interact with content, you’re fascinated with people and how they work.
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Is a strong communicator and collaborator, great at getting coworkers and contractors to share their perspectives through thoughtful dialogue. You’re able to frame feedback in ways that drive understanding and inspire action
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ideally, adjacent B2C category experience: health, wellness, education or content apps or websites
Requirements
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6-8+ years experience as product manager building B2C products/services
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Demonstrable track record of delivering complex end-to-end product launches.
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Experience learning best-in-class PM skills at a structured, well-known company where they’ve learned process.
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Experience at startups where you thrived moving quickly amid ambiguity, chaos and limited resources.
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Experience scaling teams in a growing organization.
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Strong analytical skills and experience with data analysis tools
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Excellent communication and listening skills to work effectively with technical and non- technical teams
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You’re not put off by IC work or overly focused on team scaling rather than product building at this stage of your career.
Future of the company
From Women’s Pleasure to Human Pleasure
OMGyes.com, which has been a resource about women’s pleasure, is growing into a resource about human pleasure, with research and discoveries about people of all genders: women, men and gender diverse people.
Beyond Sexuality
There are other parts of life that are taboo and understudied we’re going to tackle. Among these topics is ways people approach dying and mourning. In a similar way to OMGyes, we’re conducting large-scale research to gather insights from tens of thousands of people who have discovered ways to make the experience more meaningful, from around the world. We’ll find the themes and patterns in those insights, will publish them as scientific papers and will make warm, engaging online resources to spread that wisdom.