So what’s all the hub­bub about? Dog­Va­cay is an online com­mu­ni­ty that has tens of thou­sands of hosts vet­ted and insured dog sit­ters across the coun­try ready to care for your dog like a mem­ber of their fam­i­ly. It’s a safe, con­ve­nient and afford­able way to make sure your best friend is in good care. DogVacay.com was found­ed in 2012 by a hus­band and wife team (and their two pup­pies) who did­n’t believe in pay­ing hun­dreds of dol­lars to leave their dogs in a cage at the ken­nel. They began by open­ing up their own home to guest pooches and real­ized it was the start of some­thing special.

Even­tu­al­ly thou­sands of dog lovers across the coun­try applied to join the com­mu­ni­ty and host dogs in their own homes. DogVacay.com has been praised for rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing pet care and has been fea­tured on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN, The Wall Street Jour­nal, The New York Times, USA Today and oth­er major news outlets.

In a year and a half, Dog­Va­cay has grown from 5 employ­ees and 3 crowd­ed desks to 50+ employ­ees in our dog-friend­ly office just a few blocks from the beach in sun­ny San­ta Monica.They’ve been named one of the hottest star­tups in Los Ange­les by Busi­ness Insid­er, Ven­ture­beat and many oth­ers. This com­pa­ny is grow­ing faster than ever and is con­tin­u­ing to expand. This includes their Prod­uct Team which you very well could become a part of. They’re look­ing for a pas­sion­ate and user-focused Prod­uct Man­ag­er or Direc­tor (depend­ing on expe­ri­ence and abil­i­ty) to join them in chang­ing the way peo­ple care for their pets.

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Who is the ide­al Prod­uct Man­ag­er for Dogvacay.com?

This posi­tion will focus on the devel­op­ment of both web/mobile con­sumer fea­tures by devel­op­ing user insights, cre­at­ing prod­uct require­ments, man­ag­ing projects and lead­ing ini­tia­tives at each step of the product/development lifecycle.

The right per­son dives into user-cen­tered prod­uct man­age­ment – our prod­uct man­agers are obsessed with a great user expe­ri­ence. They dive deep into research and user test­ing to find deep user insights and real solu­tions for our hosts and guests. Do you have a bal­ance between big vision and prac­ti­cal plan­ning? Skills to bal­ance big projects and tight roadmaps with ease.

Total Prod­uct Man­age­ment –you’ll work soup to nuts, from ideas to require­ments to devel­op­ment to train­ing and roll­out and ongo­ing enhance­ment and mea­sure­ment. We don’t just build fea­tures, we mon­i­tor and opti­mize con­ver­sion and oth­er key per­for­mance met­rics.  So be ready to bring your game to ana­lyt­ics report­ing and con­duct­ing A/B testing.

The abil­i­ty to keep up with tech.  We’re an agile shop and we work with the best engi­neers in Sil­i­con Beach.  Your require­ments and user sto­ries should not only be tech­ni­cal­ly lit­er­ate, but get our engi­neers fired up to tack­le them.

Brand evan­ge­lism – Don’t just main­tain brand guide­lines, believe in the impor­tance of our brand expe­ri­ence. Low Ego — you’re pos­i­tive, open, sup­port­ive, and aller­gic to dra­ma. 3+ years of expe­ri­ence in prod­uct man­age­ment, includ­ing doc­u­ment­ing and deliv­er­ing web, mobile and inter­nal fea­tures for con­sumer web products/platforms. Expe­ri­ence work­ing across each step of the sys­tems devel­op­ment life cycle (require­ments, design, devel­op­ment, test­ing, maintenance).

Expe­ri­ence writ­ing require­ments for and work­ing in an agile/SCRUM envi­ron­ment. Abil­i­ty to syn­the­size and clear­ly artic­u­late com­plex con­cepts and require­ments. A team play­er with high pro­fes­sion­al stan­dards who can share and learn from oth­ers, but at the same time be able to work very inde­pen­dent­ly and lead by influ­ence. Demon­strat­ed suc­cess deliv­er­ing and main­tain­ing fea­tures for large/active web­sites. Incred­i­bly orga­nized, hands-on, team play­er with an excel­lent atten­tion to detail. Entre­pre­neur­ial mind­set and enthu­si­asm for solv­ing busi­ness problems.

Able to thrive in a fast-paced, flex­i­ble and dynam­ic start-up envi­ron­ment, with a lim­it­less amount of ener­gy and cre­ativ­i­ty devot­ed to improv­ing DogVacay’s prod­ucts and plat­form. Expe­ri­ence with mar­ket­place busi­ness mod­els would be fan­tas­tic. Dog lover preferred!

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What does Dogvacay.com have to say about what they offer?

We’ve built a net­work of over 13,000 hosts across every major city in the US/Canada and still expand­ing! Locat­ed just 2 blocks from the beau­ti­ful beach­es of San­ta Mon­i­ca, Cal­i­for­nia, our dog-lov­ing team of over 50 employ­ees is here to serve you! From our Concierge and Bar­ket­ing teams to our Engi­neer­ing and Prod­uct and Devel­op­ment teams, we are pas­sion­ate about bring­ing dog lovers togeth­er to cre­ate “pup­tas­tic” expe­ri­ences for dogs and their parents.

We’re com­mit­ted to the health and well being of our team mem­bers – in-office healthy lunch­es twice a week, plus in-office mas­sage! We’re also com­mit­ted to the health and well-being of dogs – we reg­u­lar­ly vol­un­teer at local shel­ters, plus employ­ees can bring their well-behaved dog to work every­day.  We even offer a pro­fes­sion­al dog walker!

Dog­Va­cay offers a tru­ly fun, dynam­ic and upbeat work envi­ron­ment – we cel­e­brate our prod­uct and tech­nol­o­gy wins, we cel­e­brate dog­gy birth­days, and we’re known to reg­u­lar­ly cel­e­brate hap­py hour.