Job Summary
As a Senior Product Manager, you will take a leadership role in shaping and executing the vision for Gaggle products. You’ll own the strategic roadmap for your product, drive critical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to ensure successful product development, launch, and adoption. This role requires a combination of strong market insight, technical and business acumen, and an ability to mentor and guide junior team members.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Vision & Strategy: Develop a long-term product vision and roadmap in alignment with company objectives. Identify growth opportunities and translate strategic goals into actionable product plans.
- Delivery Success: Act as a key partner to engineering teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of product features and improvements. Set clear priorities, remove roadblocks, and coordinate across teams to meet delivery timelines while maintaining technical excellence.
- Market Leadership: Conduct in-depth market and competitive analysis to stay ahead of industry trends and understand evolving customer needs. Use these insights to prioritize product features and guide strategic decisions.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Provide mentorship and guidance to junior product managers, fostering growth, enhancing team collaboration, and ensuring alignment with the overall product strategy.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Partner closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to drive alignment and execute on complex projects with high impact.
- Product Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from concept and planning through development, launch, and post-launch analysis. Ensure continuous improvement by implementing insights gathered from user feedback and analytics.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess product success. Use data insights to make informed decisions, identify improvement areas, and adapt the roadmap to optimize results.
- Customer Advocacy: Deeply understand customer pain points and advocate for them throughout the product development process. Regularly engage with key customers to validate concepts, gather feedback, and ensure solutions exceed expectations.
- Go-to-Market Leadership: Collaborate with product marketing and sales to create and execute go-to-market strategies, develop positioning and messaging, and ensure the sales team is equipped with strong enablement materials.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify potential risks and challenges throughout the product lifecycle and take ownership of mitigation plans to ensure timely and successful launches.
Qualifications
- 5-8 years of product management experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead product management role in SaaS environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Familiarity with product management tools such as JIRA, Figma, Pendo, Tableau, SalesForce, and SQL.
- Solid understanding of software development processes and technology frameworks; ability to work closely with technical teams and understand complex technical requirements.
- Customer-first mindset, adaptability in a fast-paced environment, and proactive in addressing issues before they escalate.
Nice-to-Have
- Experience building products in edtech; preferably for IT and administrative personas.
Salary Range and Benefits
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Our Team Commitment
Gaggle is proud to be recognized as a 2023 Top Workplace and also a proud recipient of the 2024 Top Workplaces USA Today award. We are committed to equal opportunity without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, or sex.