Director of Product Design

About Us:

At Botrista, we are transforming beverage culture with intuitive drink-making technology guided by Nature herself. By allowing restaurants to easily expand menus without added complexity, we’re driving incremental growth with the push of a button.

Awarded as one of the Best California Startups in 2023, our beverage solution has created a new industry category, universally applicable to any cuisine, demographic, and business. Our machines are being rapidly deployed around the country for customers to experience & enjoy.

We deliver a world of flavors at your fingertips by sourcing top-tier ingredients from around the globe. Thanks to valuable data collected through our integrated CloudBar system, we easily guide our partners through their drink menu innovation.

Each drink is crafted by nature, and perfected by innovation - we’d love to have you be a part of it.

Summary:

Botrista's Product Team is seeking a Director of Product Management to spearhead the development of its existing product lines, Cloudbar and DrinkBot. Cloudbar serves as a cloud-based robot operation management system, facilitating machine and menu deployment, sales data management, and integration with third-party applications. Meanwhile, DrinkBot is a beverage robot designed to assist restaurants in generating incremental beverage revenue by offering a diverse range of beverage categories. The ideal candidate for this role will exhibit exceptional product direction skills, a deep commitment to enhancing user experience, and a passion for shaping the intricate machinery that underpins the beverage delivery process, ultimately impacting millions of users.

Requirements

Key Qualifications:

- Senior Leadership in Product Development: A minimum of 8 years of experience in senior leadership roles, directing product development initiatives for cloud-based platforms, human-machine interaction, and IoT products.

- Interpersonal Skills: Proven ability to excel in collaborative environments, demonstrating exceptional interpersonal skills. Track record of successfully influencing and negotiating with partners across various groups to achieve common goals. Comfortable handling high-stakes decisions and navigating through ambiguity.

- Executive Engagement: Experience effectively engaging with high-level executives, including delivering presentations, gaining support for initiatives, and advocating for points of view.

- Team Management: Demonstrated experience in managing and professionally developing teams, overseeing portfolios of multi-year projects, and driving them towards successful completion.

- Technical and Strategic Acumen: Ability to seamlessly transition between highly detailed technical situations and strategic business environments. Strong analytical skills to identify opportunities and measure impacts, driving improved customer experiences.

- Communication Skills: Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both executive and non-technical stakeholders. Proficiency in storytelling and Keynote presentation skills.

- Design and Prototyping: Proficiency in communicating concepts and designs through sketches, wireframes, high-fidelity comps, and prototypes, utilizing tools such as Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, Keynote, among others.

- Documentation and QA: Expertise in documenting interaction details, visual design specifications, and ensuring quality assurance of implemented products.

- Project Management: Experience in effectively managing multiple complex projects simultaneously, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability to change.

- Independent and Teamwork: Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment, fostering cooperation and synergy.

- Product Vision and Strategy: Advance the faithful implementation of the product vision and strategy, managing the feature definition process, and orchestrating how it’s unveiled to the public.

- Roadmap Prioritization: Successfully advocate for the prioritization of impactful features on the engineering roadmap, securing key resource commitments among cross-functional teams.

- Passion for Botrista: A genuine passion for Botrista, its products, and its customers is essential for success in this role.

Salary Range:

$150,000 - $190,000 per year

Plus bonus and stock options

Benefits

• Fully company-paid Medical and 99% company-paid Dental and Vision Insurance
• 15 days Paid Time Off, 7 sick days, 14 holidays, Wellness Benefits, Cell Phone and Internet reimbursement, 401K
• Beautiful new SF office with outdoor rooftop workspace
• Free beverages with our Bot, snacks, and Wednesday lunches