❓ Purpose of the Job

As the First Product Manager at Karmen, you will have the opportunity to improve the Karmen product. You will be the first member of the Product team, working closely with the CTO & the founders to build a financing solution for companies, helping them receive funds and getting access to financial insights.

🎯 Main missions

• Product specifications:

  • You will need to explain how features works to the dev team to help them develop efficiently

• User research:

  • Collecting feedback & insights about our targets, interview with our clients.

  • Insights about the platform usage

  • Insights about future usage that could be added to the platform

• Be creative in order to bring value to our users:

  • Improving Karmen’s products

☀️ Your Manager

You will work daily with Sébastien, CTO & Co founder. Sébastien co-founded Karmen in May 2021 with Gabriel and Baptiste.

Passionate about tech at an early age, he joined Centrale Paris in 2015 and then specialized in software engineering. At the end of his studies, he joined Sipios where he contributed to several Fintech projects for big players and ambitious startups as a Software Architect.

His role today as CTO is to build Karmen’s tech ecosystem with the main concerns being the robustness of the systems, the working environment of the techs and the development of the platform.

Outside of work, he is a bike enthusiast and a true nature lover. He can often be found riding his mountain bike in his spare time!

👋 Your team & Contacts

You will work with Mehdi and Gérald, members of the tech team. You will also work with the Sales and Credit team!

⚡️ Profile

• Understand corporate financing & debt mechanism

• At least a first experience in Product

• English & French mandatory

• Lean methodologies / Kanban

Values match

At Karmen, we are looking for people who want to live a human experience above all. That’s why we’re looking for people who are aligned with the same values we hold dear every day:

Radical Transparency

We believe that transparency is crucial to promote a culture based on honesty, communication and especially to unblock complex situations by letting the team express themselves in a transparent way.

Ownership

It is important that team members know that they are an integral part of the foundation and success of Karmen. Moving toward a common goal is a team motto.

Kindness

Without kindness, it’s hard to build trust, without trust, it’s hard to get performance, without performance, there is no impact, and without impact, you stagnate.

What’s in it for me at Karmen?

If you join Karmen, here are the company’s benefits 👇 🏢 Incubated at Platform58. Fintech and Insurtech incubator of Banque Postale; in the heart of the 9th in Paris.

🏡 Remote friendly anywhere in France or up to 3 days of remote per week on days chosen by the employee ;

💰 An internship gratification between 900€ to 1200€ per month ;

➕ Meal vouchers with Swile ;

👋 A personalized onboarding for each employee (with 1 week dedicated to the discovery of Karmen and our ecosystem then 2 to 3 weeks dedicated to the specific job) ;

❣️ A close-knit team that will do everything to make you feel good at Karmen;

🍹 Welcome lunch, afterworks (every two weeks), regular teambondings & offsite, the maitre mot: “Work hard while having fun!”

• A 30min visio with Sébastien, CTO & Co-Founder, to discuss about the position, the team and your skills ;

• A take home case study to validate your skills in product management ;

• A 1h visio with Sébastien, CTO & Co-Founder to discuss about your case study and your skills ;

The recruitment process will last approximately for 2 weeks.