Technology is a major factor of success for Colonies. Our ambition is to create a spotless end-to-end experience, miles away from what renting an apartment currently feels like, and technology is at the center of this endeavour. Our tech products interact with the tenants’ daily life and with their physical and social environment. We make their lives easier without seeking to monopolize their attention. More than anywhere else, technology has a direct impact on the user’s quality of life. To that aim we also have to make operating a coliving a breeze for our team of Experience Managers, automating as much of their work as we can, so that they can focus on building actual relationships with the tenants.
The booking and day-to-day management web app is live, along with the back-office and the marketing websites. Lots of processes have already been automated: lease signature, payments (rent, deposit, invoicing, accounting), check-in etc.
We are currently working on:
Some of our next steps are:
interfacing with connected devices, such as smart locks and thermostats, in order to:
And so much more with your help!
We build our web app with Ruby on Rails and a slightly customized Bootstrap. We expect to be working with a broader technology spectrum going forward, especially on the front-end.
We like developers to be involved in the product process, which is why we recently started to use an adapted version of Basecamp’s Shape Up method. The CTO is the owner of the tech product strategy. We also have a product team outside of the tech team that focuses on the coliving product as a whole.
Your mission is to help the tech team build the right thing at the right time in order to maximize its impact. This means you will:
You will also be asked to:
You’ll be under the supervision of Simon (CTO, 🇫🇷), and you’ll be interacting constantly with the tech team (Alexandra 🇫🇷, Lionel 🇫🇷, Robert 🇮🇪, and more soon), as well as with the rest of the Colonies team, and our clients and partners.
Assembling various trades into a single team is a characteristic of Colonies. You will get to work with all teams: real estate development, architecture and design, project management and experience management. This wealth of profiles is a chance, and each one of us is encouraged to participate to discussions about the Colonies product.
The atmosphere is casual and relaxed. Work schedules and personal organization are flexible: we bet on autonomy and trust. Our office is located at 174 quai de Jemmapes, 10th arrondissement: 6th floor, overlooking the canal, with the Sacré-Coeur in plain sight, a huge balcony and quality furniture and decoration carefully chosen by our very own architecture and design team.
You have enough experience working as product person on varied products to show perspective and a critical eye on what the job entails and how to do it best. We think 2 years is a minimum.
You are excellent at:
This means you are:
Some things we will like as well:
No specific level of education is required. Speaking French isn’t necessary, but speaking fluent English is.
Apply with your CV and a text that explains:
NB: we will start looking at applications on the week of the 17th of August.
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