Product Management

What Exists

The current members build, test, and give feedback. The roadmap exists. The Help Needed section captures open questions. There’s a reasonable picture of what needs to happen next.

What’s missing is the discipline to make that picture reliable and act on it well. Feedback comes in from multiple people, in different formats, about different parts of the system. Some of it is noise. Some of it is critical. Right now, distinguishing between them is a matter of intuition, and the prioritisation decisions fall on whoever is most vocal or most available.

What We’d Love Help With

Feedback triage. When five people report five different things in the same week, someone needs a framework for deciding what gets addressed first. Not just “what’s loudest” or “what’s easiest” — but what actually unblocks the most progress.

Defining done. Features get built and shipped, but “done” is often ambiguous. Done for whom? Under what conditions? A product manager would define acceptance criteria that the team can actually verify.

Roadmap governance. The roadmap on this site is a snapshot, not a living document. As circumstances change, priorities should shift — but that requires someone actively managing the process, not just updating a page when things have already moved.

User research (such as it is). The current members are the current users. But they’re also the builders, which creates blind spots. Someone who can step back, ask structured questions, and synthesise what they hear would produce better signal than the current mix of in-the-moment feedback.

Bridging technical and non-technical. Some of the most important decisions on the platform involve trade-offs between what’s technically feasible and what users actually need. A product manager who understands both sides — without needing to be the expert in either — helps the team make those calls better.

If This Sounds Like You

The platform is early enough that product thinking is genuinely formative — you’d be shaping how the co-operative develops, not just managing a backlog. If you’ve done this before and want to work with a team that builds fast and values clear direction, we’d love to have you involved.