Product Manager, Event Planning

Ande•New York City, NY

21h

About The Position

Ande is seeking a Product Manager to build a product line for teams that plan and host corporate events. The role will define, ship, and grow the product in collaboration with a small team and founding customers. The Product Manager will own the end-to-end experience, from event ideation and planning through booking, the event itself, and measurement of results, and will shape how AI performs work within that experience while keeping people in control where appropriate. The role includes setting product strategy and roadmap, defining the product’s core data objects and integrations with customer systems, and working closely with design, engineering, customers, and cross-functional teams. The Product Manager will prototype ideas, conduct customer discovery, deliver early versions regularly, define success measures, and drive prioritization using data, customer feedback, and business objectives. The position calls for a high level of ownership and fast execution in an early-stage product environment.

Requirements

At least 5 years of Product Management experience.
Experience taking at least one product from zero to one with paying customers.
Experience building B2B workflow or collaboration software used by teams in their everyday work.
Empathy for operators and ability to make complex, multi-step, multi-person work feel simple.
AI-native product instincts, including experience shipping features where AI performs real work within a product and a point of view on where AI should and should not act.
Strong design sensibility, high standards for craft, attention to detail, and close partnership with designers.
Comfort with data models and integrations, including reasoning about core objects, permissions, and synchronization with systems of record.
Empirical approach to product decisions, including engaging with customers and observing their work.
High agency, ownership, and ability to act without waiting for permission.

Nice To Haves

Experience building for marketing, go-to-market, or revenue teams, such as in martech, event tech, CRM, or sales and marketing operations tooling, or personal experience planning and running events.
Experience integrating with CRMs and marketing platforms and helping teams demonstrate program returns.
Experience with marketplaces or products coordinating work among multiple parties, such as buyers, vendors, and internal teams.
Experience launching a new product line inside a growing company and building its early customer community.

Responsibilities

Own product strategy and roadmap for a product line serving teams that plan and host corporate events.
Own the end-to-end product experience, from initial planning and booking through the event and its follow-up.
Define how AI operates within the product, including what it handles, where users retain control, and how work transitions between AI and people.
Own the product foundation, including its core objects and connections to customers’ existing business systems.
Partner with founding customers on discovery, show them early versions regularly, and apply what is learned to product decisions.
Work closely with design and engineering to ship a high-quality product at startup speed.
Prototype product ideas directly before asking others to build them.
Work with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and the service team on launch, positioning, and adoption.
Coordinate with other product managers whose products include marketplace, booking, and payments capabilities.
Define success measures and prioritize using data, customer feedback, and business objectives.