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Avida

Turnkey digital signage and retail experiences

Associate Product Manager

Full-Time
$80k - $120k/yr+ Equity
Junior, Mid
Remote in USA+1 moreMore locations: San Francisco, CA, USA
RemoteRemote within the US, Canada, or Western Europe; must overlap significantly with US Pacific Time hours.
ProductProduct Management

About the job

Requirements
  • The candidate must have 1–3 years of product management or product-adjacent experience, such as product operations, business operations, data and analytics, or associate product management.
  • The candidate must be able to produce clear product documentation and structure ambiguous problems.
  • The candidate must be comfortable working with data, including basic SQL, dashboards, and pulling reports.
  • The candidate must have experience working with engineering teams and understand basic technical concepts.
  • The candidate must demonstrate strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
  • The candidate must communicate clearly and build trust across functions.
  • The candidate must maintain a high standard for product quality, polish, and user experience.
Responsibilities
  • Create structured product requirements documents, feature specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Maintain product documentation across Notion, Linear, and internal workflows.
  • Translate business needs into well-defined requirements, including rationale and tradeoffs.
  • Help maintain the product roadmap by sequencing work according to impact, complexity, and dependencies.
  • Partner with senior product managers and leadership to run lightweight prioritization processes.
  • Manage sprint-planning inputs and ensure teams have what they need to execute.
  • Hold engineering to a high standard of functional, visual, and experiential product quality.
  • Review builds before release and validate functionality against requirements.
  • Coordinate quality-assurance efforts, run checklists, and ensure defects are addressed quickly.
  • Use SQL queries and business intelligence tools to investigate performance and user behavior.
  • Track feature success metrics, including adoption, usage, retention, and quality.
  • Synthesize insights from data, user feedback, and coach conversations.
  • Work closely with engineering, design, operations, and coach-facing teams.
  • Drive cross-team alignment through structured updates and follow-ups.
  • Support product discovery through research, brief user interviews, and competitive scans.
Desired Qualifications
  • Previous experience in consumer apps, wellness, fitness, or creator products.
  • Experience in a startup environment with rapid iteration cycles.
  • Light design literacy, including Figma, or technical literacy, including APIs and basic architecture.

About the company

Avida designs, deploys, and manages scalable digital signage and experiential programs for brick-and-mortar retailers, offering end-to-end services from consulting to content management. Its core product is multi-sensory retail environments built with the 8-Dimensions of Planning to balance business goals with customer needs, using digital signage, interactive displays, and sensory design; the Avida xlab backs research in sensory experience design. It differentiates itself by delivering an integrated, human-centered, multi-sensory program through a structured methodology and an in-house innovation lab. Its goal is to help brands align in-store experiences with business objectives and customer needs to improve engagement, satisfaction, and sales.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Founded

2010

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What believers are saying

  • Avida’s website was updated September 28, 2026, signaling an active operating presence.
  • LinkedIn says David Reale still leads AVIDA and launched ARIA AI in January 2026.
  • The company serves banking, automotive retail, QSR, and national chains across Canada.

What critics are saying

  • Bank of Montreal pushed Avida into bankruptcy on March 6, 2024, over $6 million.
  • The 2026 Ontario appeal over credit-bidding keeps insolvency uncertainty hanging over operations.
  • Bankruptcy threatens customer trust, vendor terms, and employee retention across managed retail programs.

What makes Avida unique

  • Avida’s 8-Dimensions of Planning ties strategy, design, logistics, installation, and monitoring.
  • David Reale is launching ARIA AI for automotive in-dealership experiences in 2026.
  • xlab gives Avida proprietary sensory research capabilities beyond standard digital-signage vendors.

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Remote Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Home Office Stipend

Professional Development Budget

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