Product Manager

The posting, as Scotch wrote it

About Us

Scotch is building the next-generation operating system for beverage alcohol retailers — combining POS, payments, back office, and e-commerce into a platform purpose-built for liquor stores.

We’re modernizing one of the oldest industries in the world: the $1.6T beverage alcohol market. Our platform helps retailers run more efficiently through streamlined payments, inventory management, reporting, and day-to-day operations.

Our founders came from Skupos (acquired 2023) and Drizly (acquired by Uber). We've raised $28M from VMG Partners, First Round, Lerer Hippeau, Watchfire, and Toba Capital, with angels including the founder of Drizly and early Toast executives. Forbes has recognized Scotch as a leader in liquor retail tech. We closed a $20M Series A in 2026 off 500%+ YoY growth and $1B+ in processed payment volume.

Position Overview

We're looking for a Product Manager to own the in-store experience at Scotch — the Android point-of-sale terminal our merchants use to ring up every sale. It's the part of our product customers touch every day, and it's where we're most visibly right or wrong.

This is a hands-on role with real autonomy. You'll own the terminal end-to-end: spending time in stores watching people use it, setting direction for what we build, and working with engineering to ship it. You'll be the person who knows how the device actually behaves in a busy store on a Friday night, not just how it behaves in a demo.

We're a small product org. That means you'll make calls without a committee, and you'll be accountable for the ones that turn out wrong. You won't be setting strategy alone — but you'll have a real hand in shaping it, and the closest view of the customer of anyone in the room.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for our point-of-sale app. Shape the direction for the register experience with us, turn it into a sequence of releases, and defend the tradeoffs to people who'd rather ship something else.
• Prioritize across merchant escalations, platform work, and the long-horizon bets that never feel urgent. Partner closely with engineering on scoping and sequencing, including the parts where the right answer is "not yet."
• Spend real time in stores with merchants and their staff. Learn what they need, what they actually do, and where those two differ, and bring back things nobody would have found in a ticket.
• Translate messy, conflicting merchant input into a clear direction, and hold that direction when the inputs keep changing. Write requirements that describe the problem and the outcome, not the implementation.
• Make sure the app holds up in a real store: the peripherals it talks to, the network it doesn't always have, and the pace it has to keep up with.
• Own releases end to end. Decide what ships and what waits, how it rolls out, and who needs to know before it lands. Own the response when something goes wrong on a device that's already sitting on a counter.
• Serve as the product point of co

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software alone doesn't

• Products built for environments where the user is busy, interrupted, and has a customer waiting
• Retail or point-of-sale background, particularly with independent or small-format merchants
• Payments experience — tender types, reconciliation, or dual pricing
• Fluency with AI tools in your daily workflow

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation: The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000–$170,000. Individual offers are based on a variety of factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity.
• Competitive equity package
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Unlimited flexible PTO

Why Scotch?

• Real ownership, early. You'd be the product owner for the register, the part of Scotch merchants use every day, and your decisions would ship without layers of review.
• A vertical that's been underserved. Beverage alcohol retailers have been stuck with generic or outdated POS systems. We build specifically for them, across 18 states and counting.
• Well-backed and still early. We raised a $20M Series A from VMG Partners, First Round Capital, Lerer Hippeau, Toba Capital, and Watchfire Ventures, and we're small enough that one person changes the trajectory.
• A team that holds a high bar. We run on trust, a bias for action, and sharpening each other's steel. You'd get candor and autonomy, not micromanagement.

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Scotch is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse perspectives and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.