Product Manager - Core
At Teachable, our mission is to empower creators to transform their knowledge into income. To accomplish that, we continue to build upon the largest site builder for online courses and expertise.
We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to help define and execute the product strategy for our Core pod, the pod responsible for most of our user-facing features around the core product experience of content creation and consumption. Our teams are structured into small pods of four to six engineers, each led by a Product Manager and a Technical Lead.
With the unique opportunity to design, create, and work with a smart and mission-driven team, Product Managers at Teachable shape the future of the company and help us accomplish our mission.
The ideal candidate is experienced, analytical, pragmatic, and creative. This role is strategic as well as hands-on, and reports to the VP of Product.
Responsibilities
- Lead ideation, definition, and prioritization of the Core product roadmap based on stakeholder input, data-based hypotheses, and alignment with company product strategy.
- Manage day-to-day communication, planning, specifications, and documentation around all Core pod features and initiatives.
- Launch and optimize user-facing features that deliver against our key business goals.
- Make strong data-based decisions and develop sound KPIs for features and initiatives initiatives.
- Build stakeholder alignment with pod engineers, designers, executives, and other cross-team stakeholders to deliver a quality product.
- Be the voice of the user. Lead discovery via customer interviews, feedback gathering, and surveys, synthesizing both quantitative and qualitative user data to inform key product decisions.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of product management experience in an SaaS software product company
- Requirements gathering and roadmap planning based on stakeholder input
- Writing detailed requirements and specifications
- Multitasking and managing multiple projects in a complex environment
- Analytical decision-making with the strong use and understanding of data
- Running programs such as user interviews, betas, workshops etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- “Product sense” -- a sharp understanding of what makes a product great and the ability to balance complex design and engineering trade-offs to build oneKnowledge and experience of the software development lifecycle
Preferred Qualifications
- BA/BS in computer science, engineering, business or related field
- Experience as a former designer or engineer
- Experience at a fast-growing SaaS startup
Teachable is an instructor-focused online course platform that lets course creators build and sell courses on any topic, from iOS development to watercolor painting to card tricks. Our thousands of instructors have earned more than $150M to date, and we've raised $12.5m+ from a group of top venture investors. We're growing rapidly, with triple-digit year-over-year growth, and are continuing to build a diverse team of top-notch talent in NYC. At Teachable, you will have the freedom to do your job and be an integral member of our tight-knit team, and you can do it all in our beautiful office in Flatiron with great benefits and perks. You’ll also get access to an ever-growing base of online educators, and your work will directly impact hundreds of thousands of online educators, entrepreneurs, and creatives.