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What you’ll do:

• Ship products that help our users thrive, and iterate and test your way to success
• Lead collaborative product teams of engineers, PMs, design, sales and marketing folks
• Own and deliver on OKRs that are meaningful to the users and our company.
• As a full life-cycle Product Manager you’re leading strategy as well as talking to clients and writing and managing tickets in Jira.
• You’re thinking on your feet and making decisions with partial information because you’re a product SME who knows their client.
• Ask clients and engineers questions that get to the heart of what they want and determine what can be done.
• You have a nose for great products, and advocate for new features with qualitative and quantitative reasoning
• You do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, whether that means writing a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration
• You can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans

What you Bring:

• You have a technical background and may have been a software engineer who has moved into product management.
• You have an engineering or scientific background or maybe have been a programmer in a commercial setting, preferably in a tech or small to medium sized company.
• You are technical enough to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions alike
• Ideally you have @ two years as a software engineer and @ two+ years as a product manager
• Your PM goals include knowledge of users, customers, data, industry, company and product operations.
• Your process skills and techniques include discovery, optimization, delivery and development.
• Your people skills include a comfort with collaboration, stakeholder management, evangelism and leadership.

Objectives:

• In the first 30 days you’ll take the time to learn the business and ask a lot of questions and you understand key clients and build relationships with your internal customers. 
• In the first 60 days you are beginning to take over the Product Manager rituals and manage one or two teams. 
• In the first 90 days you are running technical product management. You’re developing quarterly roadmaps and beginning to take features the team is responsible for.  You’re digging into stats and talking to customers.
• In 12 months - knowing more about those customers than anyone else in the company. You’re a subject matter expert.