What you will be doing:
- Break New Grounds: Work closely with prospects and customers to discover unmet needs, define new solutions, and iterate to find product-market-fit.
- Set Vision and Strategy: Set product vision, strategy and roadmap, that will deliver substantial differentiation and customer impact.
- Manage Product Lifecycle: Oversee the entire product lifecycle from concept and definition through development, launch, and post-launch iteration.
- Collaborate closely with engineering and design teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- Drive Effective Decision Making: Synthesize insights from discovery and conceptualization.
- Drive effective decision-making, informed by key user journeys, technical insights, and product strategy.
- Balance design and technical tradeoffs, finding creative ways to solve customer needs.
- Customer Engagement: Engage with prospects, customers, and users to understand their pains, needs, and concerns.
- Be the voice of the customer in product discussions.
You will be a great match if you have:
- Experienced with New Product Development: 8+ years of experience in product management with successful examples of creating 0-to-1 products, preferrably in early-stage startups or a "startup teams" in larger organizations.
- Thrive in a dynamic, changing environment: Enjoy dealing with the ambiguity associated with "breaking new ground".
- Know how to optimize for velocity on building the right product.
- Comfortable pivoting based on external signals.
- Big-Picture and Detail-Oriented: Motivated with the big picture and can articulate strategy with a variety of internal and external audiences, and at the same time, can get into the details of a product spec with an eye for frictionless user experience and clear customer value.
- Scrappy and Inventive: Don't pattern match, but rather leverage experience and then test strategies rigorously.
- Pivot when necessary.
- Never have a "not my job" mentality.
- Passionate about UX: Keen customer empathy, design thinking, and UX instincts.
- Experienced in building beautiful, simple user experiences in collaboration with designers.
- Ownership and Drive: A strong sense of ownership and drive for results.
- Ability to rally the team and resolve conflicts.
- Problem Solver: Break down complex problems into actionable steps that drive product development at startup speed.
- Proactively move initiatives forward with limited direction.
- Highly Collaborative: Care about teammates, and uplift and improve the team.
- Are highly-collaborative and a humble, and trusted team leader.
- Excellent Communicator: Strong communication skills (written, verbal, visual) for both internal and external audiences.
- Bonus Points: Experience with SaaS products in areas such as Search, AI, ML, NLP, HR Tech, or Recruiting
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