Little Spoon · 1 day ago
Associate Director, Product Management (Growth)
New York City
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
7+ years expLittle Spoon is the fastest growing baby and kids food brand in the United States, and they are seeking an experienced Associate Director, Product Management (Growth) to join their product management team. This role involves building new products and features to enhance customer acquisition and experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to execute a robust product vision and roadmap.
BabyConsumer GoodsFood and BeverageNutritionOrganic Food
Responsibilities
Define a long-term vision for Little Spoon’s DTC e-commerce platform and develop a clear roadmap of prioritized features and initiatives that deliver against that vision
Develop clear product requirements and specifications and work directly with software engineers, product designers, and data scientists to turn good specs into intuitive, working products
Partner with UX Research and UX Design to conduct casual conversations with customers and formal research studies to uncover core customer problems impeding new customer growth
Rapidly prototype new ideas using cutting-edge AI tools (e.g., LLMs and generative UX tools) to explore concepts, validate direction, and accelerate iteration cycles
Develop and implement an instrumentation strategy which enables you to form a robust understanding of how customers engage with your product and unlock actionable insights
Build and execute an experimentation roadmap. Design experiments, define primary and secondary metrics, activation logic, test duration, and success criteria. Analyze and share results with key stakeholders
Propose, build, and launch net-new customer acquisition programs and products from scratch
Manage relationships with a broad set of cross-functional stakeholders including marketing, analytics, product development, operations, finance, customer service, and C-Suite leaders
Qualification
Required
7+ years of relevant experience and 5+ years of Product Management experience delivering successful and innovative consumer facing products with your fingerprints all over them
Familiar with systems thinking, analytics and experiment design, and have a solid understanding of software development processes and concepts
Customer obsession. A track record of starting from the ideal customer experience and working backwards to make it a reality
Plenty of examples of times you personally identified important customer problems by conducting customer research through formal studies and casual conversations with customers
Familiarity with the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework, experience applying this framework to uncover actionable insights, and a track record of turning those actionable insights into meaningful business outcomes
A deep fluency with data. Comfortable with basic concepts of statistics and probability, have experience instrumenting and analyzing clickstream analytics, and a track record of turning data analysis into actionable insights to drive meaningful outcomes for the business
A passion and sense for simple, intuitive, and elegant product design
A bias for action. You value calculated risk. You understand that execution pays for ideation and you don't confuse activity with progress
Extremely high standards across the board. You're used to pushing back when others tell you 'it's good enough' and you have an insatiable desire to improve
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You've been complimented on your ability to write a crisp PRD
You're a highly skilled storyteller who can confidently communicate your vision and the potential upside of that vision to your peers and senior leaders
You're comfortable making the decision to pivot or persevere
Confidence collaborating with teams across multiple time zones
Preferred
Experience as a founder or entrepreneur. You've led a business and you're comfortable owning and optimizing business metrics
Growth and product experience at a successful tech or DTC startup
Experience as a single-threaded leader across a pod of engineers, designers, researchers, and data scientists
Experience as a UX designer, UX researcher, or software engineer
Benefits
Equity
Comprehensive Health Coverage
401(k) with Company Match
Flexible PTO + Holidays
Paid Parental Leave
Learning & Development
Little Spoon Perks
Company
Little Spoon
Little Spoon is the DTC brand on a mission to make parents’ lives easier through healthy meal and snacks for babies, toddlers + big kids.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Little Spoon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2022 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$73MKey Investors
Valor Equity PartnersVaultier7Kairos HQ
2021-07-20Series B· $44M
2020-01-01Series A· $22M
2019-02-05Series Unknown· $7M
Leadership Team
Ben Lewis
Co-Founder + CEO
Angela Vranich
Co-Founder + Chief Product Officer
Recent News
2025-05-06
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