About Jolly



Our mission is to end the exploitation era of the gig economy. Jolly is a professional social network for the gig economy, where freelancers and businesses connect to grow their networks, build their reputations and work together freely without a middleman.



Jolly helps freelancers take control of their independent career and find more opportunities to work with great people. For businesses who hire freelancers, Jolly is the fastest and most affordable way to find reliable workers. Tens of thousands of freelancers are already on Jolly, and thousands more are joining each month.



Based in Austin, TX with a distributed team across 7 countries, Jolly is part of Techstars Austin’s early 2020 cohort.



This position will be with our core team in Austin, so candidates must be located in Austin or willing to relocate.

Why join our team?



Be a core part of a high-growth startup backed by Techstars, working as part of a top-performing team of passionate, driven and talented A-players

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Play a key role on our product team

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Advance your career by taking on responsibility and decision-making power about how we should support and create value for our users

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Work within and help define a fun, progressive culture where we invest in ourselves and each other, focusing on overall happiness and continuous improvement

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Competitive salary plus equity options, with generous PTO

Responsibilities



Collaborate with leadership on what we should build (roadmap)

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Collaborate with design and research on how our solutions should work and look

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Spec tickets for engineering and develop a solid backlog of fully fleshed-out projects

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Groom tickets with engineering and adjust scope to create the most value for the required effort

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QA tickets completed by engineering in our staging environment

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Work with our team to improve analytics infrastructure and build reports in data visualization tools

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Analyze product and growth experiments; summarize findings and communicate to the team

Experience & Knowledge



Working with design and development teams to build web and mobile applications

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Agile and lean customer development methodologies for building products people love

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Scaled Agile Framework or other sprint planning/project management methodologies

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Customer research/interviewing, opportunity-mapping, and product strategy are all pluses

Skills



Lean product development, taking products from concept through to delivery and optimization

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Writing engineering ticket specifications

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Sprint planning, grooming web and mobile application tickets with engineers

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QA and User Acceptance Testing after engineers have delivered functionality to staging environment

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Data analysis and visualization tools (e.g. Amplitude) are a big plus