Staff Product Manager

Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that enables a travel-rich lifestyle through community. The Staff Product Manager will shape the future of travel by leading key areas of the core product experience and collaborating with a full-stack team to solve complex challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own and lead key areas of the core product experience (e.g. growth, search & discovery, hosting) with a team of 8-10 engineers
• Design systems that build trust, balance marketplace dynamics, and drive measurable outcomes for both our members and the business
• Lead 0→1 and 1→n initiatives across surfaces that require speed, creativity, and craft
• Use data to size opportunities, uncover insights, and evaluate performance (both qualitative and quantitative)
• Rigorously prioritize to focus the team on the highest-impact problems
• Collaborate closely with design, engineering, data and other cross-functional partners to scope, build, and ship products
• Champion product quality, simplicity, and craft
• Deeply understand and advocate for member needs

Requirements:

• Have 8+ years of product management experience, with at least some in consumer-facing products
• Have led 0→1 product development and/or scaled products at a high-growth startup
• Have a proven track record of driving measurable impact on key business metrics
• Combine strategic product thinking with strong execution—able to move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Have strong intuition for UX and user behavior and what makes a product feel exceptional
• Are able to leverage qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions at every stage of the product lifecycle
• Are energized by ambiguity and thrive in fast-paced, high-ownership environments
• Care deeply about product polish, with a sharp eye for interaction design, visual design and product positioning
• Operate with a founder mindset—proactive, resourceful, and not above rolling up your sleeves to make things happen
• Bonus: experience working with consumer marketplace products
• Bonus: experience working with mobile products