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With the latest in sample preparation, testing instrumentation, and data automation, our goal is to be the fastest growing testing lab in the world.\nRole Overview:\nLab testing historically is slow, expensive, and fraught with miscommunication. Light Labs is stepping in to close this gap. Our testing platform is revolutionizing the customer experience for manufacturers and brands across the globe, and we are looking for someone who can jump in and own the existing platform capabilities.\nWe are looking for someone who can sit with customers, understand their needs, and translate those needs into a 12/10 experience. You’ll be supporting brands like Grüns, IM8, David, and Seed Health complete their product testing quickly and with unparalleled clarity.\nSuccess at six months: platform triage and releases run with limited oversight, and customer-facing changes ship with clear guidance for both internal and external parties. You’ve worked with our engineering team to streamline and drive our SDLC process, and stakeholders are aware of our near term roadmap\nAs you show results, your scope grows toward owning platform areas and, over time, the platform. The role is based in Austin, TX. Day to day, you’ll work with engineering, the lab team, and customer support. This role reports to the product lead and works closely with the team in person.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn and deliver new features to our core testing platform.\n\nWork with engineering to scope and deliver outcomes for our customers\n\nEnsure the highest quality bar for our releases\n\nDrive feature adoption and business outcomes by owning communications around feature releases\n\nWork hands on with engineering, prioritizing the development patterns to move at maximum velocity\n\nPrototype and build product changes to get early buy-in from customers and internal stakeholders\n\nCollaborate with other teams across the organization to ensure the best possible outcomes for our customers\n\nLearn how CPG brands and contract manufacturers use the platform by working closely with the support and lab teams\n\nQualifications:\n1 to 3 years of experience on B2B software platforms, in product management or 2 to 4 years in an adjacent role such as product operations, business analysis, QA, support engineering, or implementation\n\nExperience writing clear specs and acceptance criteria that engineers can build and test against\n\nExperience working with engineers every day, including reproducing bugs in a web app\n\nComfortable working large datasets to make informed decisions\n\nStrong written communication and steady follow-through on the work you own\n\nClear understanding and competency with AI tools\n\nIf you don’t match every line but the role fits you, we still encourage you to apply.\nBenefits:\nTop decile salary\n\nEquity in the business\n\nHealth, dental, and vision insurance\n\nPaid time off and holidays\n\nPromote from within approach - career growth opportunities\n\nRelocation to ATX available for qualified candidates\n\nWho We Are\nLight Labs is building the modern platform for lab testing, starting with consumer goods brands. We help companies test more cheaply, quickly, and enable them to use lab results to automate regulatory compliance and grow revenue.\nWe believe consumers deserve to know the purity and accuracy of every product that affects their families’ health. Improving our food system starts with increasing transparency and creating a more informed customer. Not only are we building a lab that makes testing faster, cheaper, and easier, but also the infrastructure that allows brands to:\nMarket and highlight their lab results by making it easy to push lab data directly to product display pages. Here, brands will highlight what’s in their product (active ingredients + they meet their claims) and what’s not in their product (heavy metals, environmental toxins, PFAs, etc)\n\nAutomatically comply with regulations like Prop 65, CA AB 899, Amazon testing requirements, etc.\n\nBy integrating the full experience - from testing to the data sharing with customers - we’re building a more efficient and streamlined process. Brands can now differentiate themselves and become the no-brainer choice in their category through testing and great transparency.\nWe’re a team of experienced founders that have raised $12M from top VCs (8VC and Valor), with top CPG founders and strategics also coming into the round. Whether you’re lab tech, engineer, sales, marketing, or customer support, you’ll have a seat at the table as we work to increase transparency in the food system.\nOur Mission\nAlmost everything people consume is becoming increasingly toxic (and bereft of nutrition) which leads to massive health dysfunction while simultaneously destroying our planet. No one knows about it because you can’t see, taste, smell, or quantify the problem:\nCinnamon Apple Puree pouches, marketed for children and labeled as preservative-free, kosher, and gluten-free, contained lead levels 200 times greater than the FDA’s proposed guidelines\n\nOver 1300 chemicals are banned in cosmetics in the EU, while only 11 are in the United States\n\nThe US also allows thousands of food additives which are banned in other countries\n\nA study of 168 baby foods revealed that 95% contained at least one heavy metal (arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium), with a quarter containing all four\n\nSeven out eight samples of kale contained ‘disturbing’ levels of PFAs, with organic kale containing higher levels of the toxic compounds\n\nToday, even if consumer brands or manufacturers wanted to test for purity of their products, the experience is slow, cumbersome, expensive, and nearly impossible to interpret or share the lab results unless you have a PhD in the area you’re testing for.\nBecause there is no feedback loop or standardized transparency that brands offer, there is no consumer pressure on change of practices and sourcing. If people knew what was in their food, they’d be shocked. They would shop differently.\nOur mission is to bring this transparency to the food system. Allow customers to buy products and brands that are free of toxic ingredients. Transparency is the first step in creating demand for cleaner products, and ultimately a cleaner supply chain.\nFounding Team\nNick Mares: 3x founder, Kettle & Fire and Upside Financing. Kettle & Fire is a $100 million/year brand while Upside Financing exited in 2022. He’s raised more than $100M across the two companies and been both in the CEO and COO roles. Nick is a Thiel Fellow.\n\nVijay Manohar: growth and GTM leader. He helped Samsara scale to be one of the fastest growing B2B software companies ever to reach $1B ARR, including an IPO (NYSE: IOT). B.S. in computer engineering from UT Austin.\n\nComp and Benefits\nWe’re also setting the new standard for compensation and equity in lab testing. Every employee gets skin in the game with equity, plus a competitive salary. Our goal is to have a small team of founder-minded professionals aligned with our mission to bring transparency to our food system. We offer excellent full-time employee benefits including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid holidays and vacation, and professional development opportunities.\nValues We’re Looking For\nFirst Principles\n\nWe’re looking for team members who can deal with ambiguity, deconstruct problems, and build the optimal solution.\n\nQuestion every requirement → Delete any part or process you can → Simplify and optimize → Accelerate cycle time → Automate.\n\nStandard of Excellence:\n\nHigh standards are contagious. A+ talent attracts A+ talent.\n\nThere’s a glut of mediocrity in the world. We’re chasing after the products and people that strive for excellence.\n\nBias for Action:\n\nTake initiative, make decisions quickly, and have a willingness to experiment and learn from failures\n\nCustomer expectations are not static. They rise over time, which means we have to continuously improve every single day\n\nLow Ego:\n\nCoachability; it’s not about being right, it’s about getting to the right answer.\n\nReacts calmly to criticism or negative feedback, and has a “feedback is an opportunity for information and improvement” mindset\n\nRespectfully challenges decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable. 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