Product Manager (Interactive drills)
Spend your time working on truly innovative and engaging products in the wearable & sports-tech space.
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Your mission as a Product Manager at HackMotion is to lead the initiative to help us build the world’s best interactive excercises (drills) for wearable products.
From real-time animations to haptic feedback our drills combine hardware and software to teach movement patterns in sports.
You’ll take ownership of shaping and improving the drill experience in our mobile app – making sure our drills are usable, intuitive, and fun to do.
You'll join our newly created 3rd Product team that consists of a skilled UI designer and top talent developers.
You'll play a key role in helping us ship high-quality features that truly improve how people train with HackMotion.
Your success will be defined by:
- You’ve taken full ownership of your team – leading sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and roadmap execution.
- You’ve taken full ownership of HackMotion drills, including:
- Setting up a system to assess drill quality through field tests, user feedback, and data analysis.
- Driving measurable improvements in both drill quality and user engagement.
- HackMotion drills are recognized as world-class:
- Users experience is seamless and “it just works”
- Drills are seen as valuable, fun, and worth repeating.
Your tasks:
- Lead and coordinate efforts across design, engineering, and hardware to build world-class interactive drill experiences.
- Make data supported decisions and experiment quickly
- Conduct user interviews and field tests to understand user needs.
- Managing and prioritising your teams backlog.
- Evaluating the success of each launched solution.
What we expect:
- Great English communication skills – both verbal and written; able to clearly express ideas, requirements, and feedback.
- Strong user research capabilities – conducting high-quality user interviews and running field tests that generate actionable insights.
- Ability to coordinate product development from idea to implementation:
- You can sketch wireframes, map user journeys, and write clear documentation.
- You’re used to working hand-in-hand with designers and developers.
- Comfortable with technical discussions – you don’t need to write code, but you understand how software is built.
- Strong problem-solving mindset – you think in systems, structure problems well, and enjoy tackling tricky product challenges.
Nice to have (but not required)
- Experience with game design or a strong passion for gaming.
- Background in sports or coaching.
What you can expect:
- Company stock options (own part of the company);
- Work on truly exciting applications related to motion capture and IoT;
- Experience how global wearable HW products are invented, and grow together with the company;
- Join a profitable & fast-growing tech company with clients in more than 60 countries;
- Friendly and open company culture (internally we share everything related to building the company);
- We work in an office & remote mix (we don’t need you at a desk for a fixed time, we need the work to be done);
- Salary 2 520 – 4 356 EUR before taxes, depending on the skills and experience.
- Locations
- Rīga
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Our selection process
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🤝 Intro call
After reviewing your application, we’ll have a 15-minute intro call to discuss the role, your experience, and mutual expectations. If there’s a good fit, we’ll assign a homework task relevant to the position.
2
🕵️ In depth interview
We’ll review your work and, if successful, invite you to a detailed interview (~1.5 h) to go through your previous experience, projects, and problem-solving approach.
3
👩🎤 Cultural fit interview
You’ll meet with our founding team to discuss company goals, role expectations, and how your career aspirations align with HackMotion’s vision.
4
🎉 Welcome to the team!
When you make it this far—congratulations! Only 1-2% of applicants join HackMotion. You’ll start with an intensive onboarding period where we’ll do our best to help you integrate and ensure you’re set up for success.
Looking forward to meeting you! 🚀
What we do
We believe an active lifestyle is crucial in sustaining physical and mental health in today's knowledge-work-dominated lifestyle. Our vision is that tech and digital training aids can substantially reduce the learning curve and improve engagement in every single sport at all levels.
HackMotion helps amateur athletes to improve much faster in skill-based sports. We use proprietary wearable motion capture hardware and custom-built software applications to measure movement mechanics and provide metrics, personalized insights, and drills. Our industry-leading products in golf & baseball are built in collaboration with the world's top coaches & athletes. We currently have clients in 60+ counties. Our goal is to be the world's No. 1 in the coaching wearable industry.
Read a full article about HackMotion on Labs Of Latvia.
Additional benefits
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Employee stock options
You will directly benefit from the company growth as you will be able to become a co-owner of HackMotion. We give company stock options to every full-time team member.
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Flexible & remote work
We don’t need you at a desk for fixed hours, we just need the work to be done. Most of our colleagues prefer an office & remote mix. -
Career growth
Each of our positions are growing together with the company. We have people who started as part-time assistants and now are managing the production of thousands of HackMotion products. -
Free golf lessons
During the golfing season, we do regular team golf practices, where we improve our own skills as well as experience our products in the field.
Our journey so far
Company founded
HackMotion was created to improve the experience of learning skill-based activities with a virtual coach. Our early prototypes did full-body motion capture and were tested in extreme environments such as snowboarding and even skydiving in vertical wind tunnels.
First product launch
The first HackMotion product was built and launched in 2018. It was targeted to the golf professional niche - golf coaches and advanced players.
HackMotion adoption among golf pros
HackMotion golf product quickly gains traction and gets widespread adoption among top industry professionals. These include true superstars, such as the coaches of Rory McIlroy (former world rank No. 1) and Dustin Johnson (winner of 6 world cups).
HackMotion Golf Player version launch
Based on learnings gained working with golf professionals the HackMotion Golf Player version was launched and quickly gained momentum. Within the first year, thousands of products were shipped across 5 continents allowing rapid scaling of the business.
Becoming a global sports wearable leader
Our ambition for the upcoming years is to continue significant expansion in the golf consumer segment. For the last few years, we have been growing 2x or more a year. Our goal is to be the world's No. 1 in virtual coaching wearables.
Our office
Most of our team members work in a remote-office mix, however, most of the time is sepent in office. We are located in the very city center in the scenic Kronvalda Park. We have literally one of the greatest views in Riga. We share the building with The Art Academy of Latvia, so there are always creative attractions in the hallway.
Also, we have an indoor golf simulator to always be able to test our products as well as have a little fun.
Rīga
About HackMotion
HackMotion helps amateur athletes to improve much faster in skill-based sports. We use proprietary wearable motion capture hardware and custom-built software application to measure movement mechanics and provide coaching feedback, drills, and statistics. Our industry-leading products in golf & baseball are built in collaboration with the world's top coaches & athletes. We currently have clients in 60+ counties.
We see a future where tech and digital training aids will be a crucial part of training in every single sport at all levels. Our goal is to be the world's No. 1 in this industry.
Want to learn more about the company?
1. Read the Labs of Latvia article featuring HackMotion. (in Latvian)
2. Listen to The Pursuit of Scrappiness Podcast featuring HackMotion.
3. Listen to the Asketic Podcast on Spotify with CEO, Atis Hermanis. (LV)
4. Watch the European Hit Radio interview with CEO, Atis Hermanis. (LV)
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