Posted 1w ago
About Near
Near helps US companies hire talent across Latin America. We’re building products that make recruiting faster and simpler for our team and customers.
Our goal is to help recruiters get more done with less manual work, while maintaining candidate quality and customer service.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager who gets close to users, understands their problems, and owns getting useful solutions built. You’ll regularly talk with recruiters, hunters (our sourcing team), clients, candidates, and the professionals we’ve placed to understand how our service works from their perspective. You’ll combine strong product judgment, design taste, and rapid AI prototyping to make recruiting simpler and more efficient. We’re looking for four strengths:
Product judgment. You understand the business model and metrics, identify the problems worth solving, and connect product decisions to measurable results.
Execution and ownership. You take a problem from discovery through delivery, adoption, and results without needing constant direction.
UX design and AI prototyping. You have strong design taste, simplify complex workflows, and quickly build interactive prototypes with AI to test ideas.
Customer discovery. You proactively interview users and observe their workflows. You look beyond the feature someone requests to understand the problem, test your assumptions, and change direction when the evidence calls for it.
You’ll work with our founders on the vision and own day-to-day product decisions with our existing engineering team. We welcome experienced PMs and exceptional candidates with less tenure who can demonstrate strong judgment and independent ownership.
Turn business goals and user problems into clear priorities. Challenge proposed solutions, including those from founders, and explain what to build, simplify, or leave alone.
Make user conversations and workflow observation a regular part of your work. Turn what you learn across internal teams, clients, and talent into clear priorities, and return to those users to test whether the changes helped.
Establish a baseline and expected impact before building. Weigh the benefit against the effort, and use evidence to continue, change, or stop work.
Improve the full recruiting experience, including communication and handoffs outside the app. Test ideas with users, learn quickly, and keep the first release focused on what matters.
Give engineers clear scope and success criteria. Resolve questions and tradeoffs during development, and check that the finished experience works for users.
Own rollout and adoption. Measure whether changes save recruiters time or increase their capacity, while checking candidate quality and customer experience.
Keep recruiting, operations, and engineering aligned on priorities and process changes. Protect engineering focus, communicate progress and blockers clearly, and bring recommendations when important decisions need input.
You’ve owned a product, feature, or workflow through launch and can explain your contribution, the decisions you made, and what happened afterward.
You have strong design taste and can explain what makes an interface clear, polished, and easy to use. You make decisions about layout, hierarchy, language, and interaction without detailed design direction.
You value simplicity and purpose. You can explain how a design helps someone complete their work, remove features and steps that don’t help, and preserve the context people need.
You’re AI-native. You use AI to prepare research, synthesize interviews, explore solutions, and build interactive prototypes yourself. You check its outputs against what users actually say and do, and can explain and change what you create.
You recognize where AI or automation can reduce work, how to assess its reliability, and where users need control or human review.
You understand enough about how software is built to work through technical constraints and implementation choices with engineers.
You move fast, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and know when to ask for input.
You proactively start conversations and build relationships with internal teams, clients, and talent. You ask good questions, listen closely, and get people excited to help by showing why their input matters. You welcome honest feedback and change your mind when the evidence changes.
You communicate confidently in written and spoken English.
Experience with B2B software, internal tools, or complex operational workflows.
Experience working in a small product team with broad responsibility.
Experience designing and shipping AI-assisted workflows.
Spanish proficiency.
The opportunity to shape products that improve how our recruiting business operates.
Close collaboration with founders and an existing engineering team.
Direct access to users and a clear connection between your decisions and business results.
Share your résumé and a brief example of something you owned. Explain the problem, a decision you made, and how you assessed the result.
A design portfolio isn’t required. Product examples or prototypes are welcome if they help explain your contribution.