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Mercury - Banking for Startups
Apr 11, 2023
Product Manager - Growth
Mercury - Banking for Startups Any Office or Remote
As a Product Manager on Growth at Mercury, you will collaborate with designers, engineers, and other key partners to ship high quality products that bring in customers to Mercury. You’ll be accountable for understanding our target market and the business, developing strategy, prioritizing the roadmap, and keeping the team unblocked and executing at a high-level. You will keep the team outcome-oriented — using qualitative and quantitative metrics to guide decision-making. Further, you will ensure the entire team feels a sense of ownership over product direction and results. While you will focus on a particular area, you’ll develop a point of view on how our products fit into Mercury more broadly — working with teams like Risk, Onboarding, Sales, Marketing, Legal, and Compliance. We are open to applications at multiple experience levels (junior, mid-level, senior, etc.) You will: Gain a deep understanding of our potential customers’ needs and what value...
Mercury - Banking for Startups
Jan 28, 2023
VP of Engineering - Product
Mercury - Banking for Startups Any Office or Remote
In his essay “You weren’t meant to have a boss,” Paul Graham argues that humans evolved for hunter-gatherer-sized groups—eight being the ideal number. This implies that startups are the ideal place for programmers—the structure of large companies just prevents you from getting much done. Graham’s essay is joined by many authors critiquing the scale of modernity. James C. Scott’s "Seeing Like a State" notes how 1800s bureaucrats attempted to impose process on the land, planting the single fastest growing tree species in a grid—and were met with rampant forest fire and disease. These authors make an excellent point. You can get a lot done as an eight-person team (Mercury launched with a team of nine), and imposing too much structure can be fatal. At the same time, the tension these authors ride up against is that scale has clearly won out: Graham’s Y Combinator now employs over 80 people, and the best permaculturist can’t compete with modern tree farms.  As the VP of...
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