Buckstop Industries Inc. Product Manager Seattle, WA · Bellevue, WA · Washington, DC · Remote · Full time Company website

As Buckstop's first Product Manager, you'll build the product function from the ground up: closing the loop between customers and the roadmap, standing up the analytics stack that drives prioritization, and establishing the product operations and UI/UX foundation as the company scales.

About Buckstop Industries Inc.

Building the intelligence layer for the circular economy. Electronics power our global economy, yet billions of dollars in critical infrastructure and materials leak through fragmented middlemen and end up in landfills. Founded in 2025, Buckstop is solving this multi-billion-dollar challenge. Often called the "Kelley Blue Book or Zillow for industrial and energy assets," Buckstop is an AI-driven valuation platform that identifies, tracks, and maximizes the residual value of electronic hardware at scale. Backed by some of the world's largest energy and industrial companies and regular press coverage in publications such as Forbes, we provide enterprises with a single source of truth to turn asset recovery from a costly burden into a strategic opportunity. Our founding team brings together industry veterans from manufacturing, reverse logistics, operations, sustainability, government, and energy. We're on an ambitious mission to create a sustainable end-of-life for every electronic device on Earth, turning yesterday’s waste into tomorrow’s resources. In an industry full of guesswork, we're where the buck stops.

Description

Key Responsibilities


User Management & Insights

  • Act as the voice of the user by establishing close feedback loops with enterprise customers, key stakeholders, and early adopters.
  • Translate customer pain points, market opportunities, and complex operational requirements into clear product vision and feature roadmaps.
  • Drive product adoption, track user journeys, and identify friction points across the platform.


Product Analytics & Technical Strategy

  • Build and oversee our product analytics stack, synthesizing data from platforms like Mixpanel and Google Analytics to extract actionable behavioral insights.
  • Define and measure core product metrics, funnels, and feature usage to inform roadmap prioritization.
  • Work closely with the engineering team to establish tracking taxonomies and evaluate feature performance post-launch.


Product Operations & Systems Building

  • Establish, build, and optimize core product management workflows and systems (e.g., in Asana) from scratch.
  • Standardize product documentation, sprint planning, roadmap visibility, and release processes across the organization.
  • Instill a high-velocity, highly structured product culture within the team.
  • Bring strong UI/UX instincts to product definition, shaping intuitive user workflows and clean UI patterns for complex enterprise tools.
  • Partner tightly across Buckstop to translate product requirements into wireframes, prototypes, and enterprise-grade user experiences.
  • Use AI to rapidly generate and prototype product ideas.
  • Ensure feature releases balance operational complexity with a frictionless user journey.


What We're Looking For


Required Qualifications

  • Three years of PM experience, shipping B2B or enterprise SaaS products, ideally in a startup or 0 to 1 environment.
  • Hands on experience standing up product analytics from scratch (Mixpanel, Amplitude, or Google Analytics), including defining event taxonomies, not just reading dashboards someone else built.
  • Direct experience building product operations infrastructure at a company that didn't already have it.
  • Comfort operating with significant ambiguity: this is a startup; process here is something you build, not something you inherit.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between enterprise customers, engineers, and leadership without losing precision in either direction.
  • Experience in the energy, insurance, appraisal, or finance industry.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong UI/UX instincts, evidenced by a portfolio or work samples of wireframes, prototypes, or shipped interfaces for complex or enterprise tools.
  • Fluency with AI tools for rapid prototyping (e.g., generating mockups or product specs with AI rather than waiting on a design queue).


Who You Are

  • You are comfortable presenting a point of view, not just a menu of options.
  • You think in systems: workflows, taxonomies, and funnels, not just individual features.
  • You enjoy working directly with founders, engineers, and customers.
  • You thrive in ambiguity and build structure where none exists.
  • You take ownership and operate with a builder mentality.


Why Buckstop

  • Founding team level influence on the product function itself.
  • Direct collaboration with founders and engineering leadership.
  • Opportunity to define the analytics and operations backbone of an emerging category leader.
  • Significant ownership and visibility across the company.
  • Work on meaningful problems in the energy transition.

Salary

$95,000 - $110,000 per year