NYC, in-person at our West Soho office · Full-time · $100-130K + generous equity package
koodos labs is a consumer AI research and product company dedicated to ensuring that the internet knows you and can do things for you, on your terms. We are the company behind Shelf, the leading personal context platform used by millions of people to track and understand what they consume. Read about the co-founders and their story here. They’ve raised 3 (unannounced) rounds from the world’s leading investors, and their Board is comprised of Pinterest’s co-founder, Facebook’s first head of monetization and a leading GP.
You should join koodos labs for the people and our mission.
We aspire to build the best team of the 2020s. Just like PayPal in the 90s, Google in the 00s, and Stripe in the 10s, we want to be known as "a place where it's good to be from." If you join us, we promise to be the best place to grow your career — with the best people you've ever worked with. We’re also working on a very bold mission.
Be the operational backbone of the product & engineering team and the connective tissue between Shelf users and the people building it. You'll own the sprint, release, and documentation discipline that keeps the whole team aligned, translate user signal into shipped improvement, ship small fixes yourself when that's the fastest path, and oversee a small support team so that function runs cleanly without pulling you in.
Success here is handling all the operational work required to free up Design on craft. Engineering on shipping. Leadership on strategy. Marketing on growing Shelf. You're the project management in the middle.
This is naturally a highly collaborative and facilitation-oriented role and you will work closely with our Product lead, who you’ll report to, and very cross-functionally.
a) Roadmap visualization and maintenance
Own the canonical forward-looking roadmap: what's shipping, what's next, what's parked. Visualize it in a way people actually use. Bring the team together around it, edit continuously as things shift, and make sure eng, design, growth, and brand are all planning against the same picture and that we are constantly working on the highest ROI things.
What great looks like: We are proactive not reactive - we all know what the next problem to solve is. At any moment, anyone on the team can open one artifact and see the next 6-8 weeks clearly. No stale roadmap docs floating around. The roadmap is the conversation-starter in every cross-functional discussion, not an afterthought.
b) Sprint planning and project kick-offs
Run sprint planning in partnership with Product lead, Eng and Design. Make sure what we commit to maps to our stated priorities, that engineering capacity is pointed at the highest-ROI work, and that resource allocation is deliberate. Arrange project kick-offs that start work with a shared understanding of the problem, the scope, and who's doing what by when.
What great looks like: For the next sprint at minimum, every person on the team can answer "what am I working on, why, who else is involved, and when do we sync." No ambiguity on ownership, dates, or dependencies. Engineering time is visibly tied to priorities, not drift.