Senior Technical Product Manager
Vibes - A Unified Mobile Messaging Platform Built for Enterprise!
It's been quite a year here at Vibes with record growth in all aspects of our business. Our product & engineering organization is growing to help scale and build the technology that delivers billions of messages every month to people around the world.
We're looking for engineers with #Java, #Python, and #Ruby experience who like to dig in and solve hard problems. We leverage some of the industry's most exciting tech, running on #AWS, #Snowflake, #Kafka, and more.
We are a group of passionate technologists, intent on solving hard problems in the evolving world of mobile engagement. We focus on collaboration and continuous improvement of our products and ourselves. Our current initiatives are heavily focused on improving user experience and evolving our cloud-based applications and systems.
You will as a Senior Product Managers translate broad strategies into tangible objectives, and deliver results in ambiguous, complex, and/or cross-functional domains with dependencies outside their direct control. You will build influential relationships with stakeholders and partners, and can successfully direct cross-functional initiatives that require other teams to accept and deliver required work. You will act autonomously within the broad strategy or business outcome that you are accountable for.
Sr. Product Manager Responsibilities:
- Participates in the interview process and applies a consistently high bar with well-articulated feedback.
- Creates a culture of self-reflection and actively seeks out two-way feedback within their team and direct stakeholder group.
- Achieves proper balance between taking direct ownership for work versus creating leverage through effective vision setting and delegation.
- Sets ambitious but realistic goals, and productively challenges others to do the same.
- Re-frames problems in outcome-oriented terms and identifies creative solutions that optimize speed-to-value while setting up for long-term sustainability.
- Regularly identifies, experiments with, and implements new practices and processes that improve team performance.
- Autonomously leads cross-functional delivery for the broad business strategy they are accountable for and aligns around OKRs to achieve key business outcomes.
- Regularly reflects on and revises priorities to ensure optimal overall value delivery. Creates focus for team(s) and sets boundaries with stakeholders as needed across cross-functional initiatives.
- Leads definition of 12 - 15 month vision for one or more roadmaps with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrates deep subject matter expertise in their product domain, acting as functional level lead for problem investigation and solution design. Understands adjacent product areas and associated business and technical integration dependencies and risks.
- Uses objective decision making frameworks with well-defined criteria for deciding among a number of valid options, helping structure ambiguity and complexity into clear paths to decision making and forward progress.
- Demonstrates subject matter expertise and thought leadership in their product and business domain, and advocates compellingly for their point of view.
- Demonstrates sound, independent decision making in the areas of prioritization, trade-offs, upward/outward communication, expectation setting, etc.
- Communicates effectively with stakeholders who may not be familiar with domain - can build frameworks to communicate complex ideas to unfamiliar audiences.
- Proactively defines appropriate communication mechanisms, like reporting and status updates, for their domain and ensures follow-through.
- Can lead and/or facilitate cross-functional interactions with varying audiences. Clearly defines purpose and objectives and drives towards them.
- Builds influential relationships with senior partners and stakeholders (Directors, VPs) and can persuade cross-functional teams to accept required work to achieve desired goals.
- Able to effectively influence across teams to create shared alignment for vision and goals, key requirements, overall prioritization, and timing.
- Execute. This means being constantly biased towards action, knowing the data, being in the details, setting a high bar and building strong collaborative relationships with other teams, thinking boldly, disambiguating, always thinking of the customer first, and rapidly iterating towards something demonstrably awesome.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Product Management, specifically in working with software product management
- BA/B.Sc. in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent professional experience. MBA or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience working with personalization engines and/or a content or ad feeds/sites (mobile) with experiment-driven development and clear conversion KPIs/OKRs
- Experience collaborating with Data Science resources on designing and implementing optimization algorithms or personalization algorithms
- Proven success leading a technical product involving continuous optimization and clearly demonstrating a data-driven approach to product management
- Experience working with software products utilizing machine-learning based optimization methods, is a plus
- Experience working with messaging software, is a plus Experience working with Mobile UI (native or web
- Previous experience working with executives and customers, gathering and translating their business needs into detailed product requirements, and overseeing teams in their delivery
- Working knowledge of cloud computing tools, such as AWS, Snowflake, and Kinesis
- Demonstrated ability to conduct thorough analysis into user behavior and customer trends
- Proven track record of deriving appropriate, business-driving conclusions from customer research
- Deep empathy and understanding of software development practices and risk mitigation
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, demonstrated ability to learn technical concepts quickly
- Excellent organizational, project management and time management skills
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills
- Strong familiarity with JIRA or other project management tools preferred
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams of engineers, data scientists, and designers to deliver extraordinary products
- Exceptional communication skills, both within your team and with leadership and partners
- Focus on building businesses, not features. Experience building and leading businesses, including ownership and optimization of business performance metrics
- Entrepreneurial spirit and a thirst for learning
Our Core Values
- Respect, Honesty, and Integrity for All Stakeholders
- Always be Learning
- Relentless Focus on the Customer
- Never be Satisfied
- Create Value
- Seek Accountability and Ownership
Vibes is an equal opportunity employer that encourages and fosters diversity in the workplace. We offer a career building experience in a fast-paced organization and industry.