Product Lead 1

Everlaw is looking for a Product Lead 1 to join our Product team! The Product team helps grow and expand the Everlaw platform by managing the development of new features and functionality. As a Product Lead 1, you will have a direct impact on the product by owning features from the beginning to the end of their lifecycle. In this entry-level position, you will become an expert on our product, define problems, and propose solutions that meet our users’ core needs. You will work collaboratively with our design and development team, developing critical thinking and product leadership skills in the process. You will become adept at rigorous feature testing to ensure feature quality and generating user-facing documentation to educate our users. Finally, you will fill a supporting role on our largest initiatives on our roadmap and be given opportunities to learn from, collaborate with, and challenge other Product Leads as you work together to bring these big ideas to life.

Product Lead 1s will report to a Product Lead Manager and will receive consistent support and mentorship from an assigned product reviewer on most features.

The Product organization guides the strategy and development of our products. We deliver value to our users, present and future, by setting our product roadmap and executing on high-quality product development with efficiency. Our products serve as the fundamental driver of value to our users, and support the success of our business. We take pride in not only creating a powerful and intuitive user experience, but in supporting users with our product documentation and certification program. 

At Everlaw, our mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our company culture is open and vibrant and we’re committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals. If you’re looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear from you! Think you’re missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the “perfect” candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.

This is a full-time position based in our Oakland, California office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home Tu/Fr.

Getting started

• We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals.
• We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

In your role, you'll...

• Become an expert on our product and learn about our users’ workflows.
• Shadow other product leads on ongoing feature work to develop an understanding of the platform and of team processes.  
• Lead a small feature from start to finish, with support and mentorship from your manager and a product reviewer.
• Once you’ve gained a bit of experience, lead small & medium prioritized features with limited direction from start to finish, assess core user needs, propose solutions, critically analyze tradeoffs in order to make reasonable product decisions, and solicit feedback effectively from key stakeholders.
• Test features in the development pipeline and publish user-facing documentation (support articles and videos) to develop competencies in critical product lead skills,
• Immediately become a participant in design discussions and larger team meetings (and voicing your opinion on improving our processes, product, and beyond!)
• Test features and publish support documentation for monthly releases.
• Apply user research, testing, and documentation skills to at least one large roadmap initiative while collaborating with more senior members of the product team.
• Execute and iterate on team processes including release processes and messaging, product and team stats, and more.

About you

• You excel at written and verbal communication.
• You are a critical thinker who enjoys creative problem solving.
• You are self-motivated and are comfortable taking initiative.
• You are a collaborative team-player. 
• You have an interest in technology and user experience.

Pluses

• You have experience with data analysis platforms such as Heap and Looker.
• You have some experience with creating documentati