Product Manager

Job Description

Description

Are you passionate about empowering people and leveling the playing field through Education? If so, be a part of the huge growth opportunity in E-Learning solutions at SolidProfessor.Our Company creates online learning experiences for engineers and designers who use some of the world's most popular software applications. Over the past 20 years, we have pursued our passion for learning by developing thousands of hours of online learning experiences for our users. We were recently nominated as one of the Best Places to Work, and one of the Fastest Growing Companies in San Diego by the San Diego Business Journal. SolidProfessor was also recently featured in Forbes Magazine! At SolidProfessor, we're not only dedicated to helping our customers grow, but we are also committed to challenging ourselves to develop new skills and reach new heights through training, continuous improvement, and career development opportunities.

Due to our incredible growth plans, SolidProfessor is seeking a junior-level Product Manager with a proven track record of defining, designing, and implementing a comprehensive product strategy to deliver enterprise products in a collaborative environment. As our Product Manager, you will bring deep experience in crafting products that deliver desired business and user outcomes while minimizing risk. The role functions in a pod structure in a partnership with design, engineering, and quality assurance teams as the product moves to completion and deployment. This role will focus on developing new and existing products, improving our learning offerings, and use creative approaches to drive learner adoption and retention. The Product Manager will use influence, communication skills and expertise to promote an atmosphere of cohesiveness and focused collaboration between all the members of the team in the interest of driving development of the product forward.

At SolidProfessor, our culture is driven by our core values -Being People Centric, caring about our team members, customers, and our community;Driving Excellencefor ourselves and our customers; andStaying Stragileby seizing opportunities and challenges and adapting quickly. If these values are engrained in your core and you aspire to work at a fun, empowering, and dynamic Company, this is a fantastic opportunity for you to make an impact!

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING IN THIS PRODUCT MANAGER ROLE?

  • Fill Scrum Product Owner role in a cross-functional pod to deliver impactful outcomes for our customers and business.
  • Own and refine a product backlog to define and drive deliverables in alignment with business priorities.
  • Provide transparent communication with stakeholders on status and to resolve any questions or issues.
  • Write user stories to produce products exceeding customer expectations.
  • Collaborate with Senior Product Managers, development resources and stakeholders to complete user story mapping sessions.
  • Use influence to guide discussions to achieve consensus and advance action items.
  • Lead example mapping sessions to drive the pod towards a collective understanding between product and engineering teams.
  • Ensure successful feature delivery in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Maintain oversight of expected outcomes post feature delivery to drive data-driven improvement.
  • Encourages use of innovative technologies and industry-leading trends in product management activities.

WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR SUCCESS IN THIS PRODUCT MANAGER ROLE?

  • Bachelor's Degree (required)
  • 3+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing products in a team environment.
  • 3+ years working in an Agile environment with experience in Scrum.
  • 2 + years' experience as a Product Owner on a Scrum team.
  • Experience in the Learning Management System space.
  • Experience managing a SaaS product.
  • Experience with Amplitude, Heap, Mixpanel, Pendo or other product analytics tools
  • Strong ability to analyze and interpret data.
  • Champion of data-driven decision making.
  • Confident in a technical environment with ability to earn trust with engineers.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Passion for design and usability.
  • Highly independent and pragmatic.
  • Autonomous, self-driven, detail-oriented, excellent communicator with outstanding time management and interpersonal skills (empathetic, team player, problem solver with excellent conflict management skills)
  • Flexible, adaptable, assertive, and persuasive, as well as the ability to learn quickly, multitask, analyze, and prioritize responsibilities
  • Personable with an excellent work ethic, a "whatever it takes" positive, solution-oriented attitude, and the confidence and drive to deliver results in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

If you would love being surrounded by the best minds in the industry and want to help drive our company's success while thriving & growing your career,apply for our Product Manager role today!

SolidProfessor has determined that the annual new hire range for this role is between $88,000 and $132,000. Your base pay will be based on a number of factors, including knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Since we appreciate transparency, we are sharing that we expect to hire for this position up to mid-range (dependent on experience/location), which will allow you the opportunity to progress as you grow in your career. Additionally, since base pay is only one part of our total compensation and benefits package, we invite you to review all of the amazing benefits (above) that Hawk Ridge Systems offers, such as paid time off for your birthday, community service, paid parental leave, company match 401(k), etc.

SolidProfessor is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. In accordance with anti-discriminationlaw, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. SolidProfessorprohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employmentopportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex,age,sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristicprotected by law. SolidProfessor conforms to the spirit as well as tothe letter of allapplicable laws and regulations.

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