Technical Product Manager
Position Overview:
Catch Co. is looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager who enjoys working closely with business and operations teams to understand and help resolve their pain points. The ideal candidate will have an eye towards scalability and long-term planning, a solid foundation in product management, and user experience expertise.
What you will do:
- Work closely with business and product partners to understand the goals, requirements and challenges of an initiative
- Partner with business and operations teams to deeply understand their processes, goals, and pain points
- Contribute to roadmapping with the insights gained from being closely integrated with the teams
- For each initiative, gather requirements, determine scope, write detailed requirements, and maintain clear communication across teams on the initiative
- Perform ticket refinement with dev team and ensure they have all of the information required to complete each ticket
- Communicate details of upcoming releases to all stakeholders
- Define and track KPIs and/or tests to measure impact of new features or changes to existing features, and use this information to inform future development
What experience you need:
- 2+ years of experience as a Product Manager
- Experience as PM of back-end systems is preferred
- Experience creating and automating business processes
- Creative problem solving skills
- Ability to ask questions until you get to a core problem
- Experience testing UX and incorporating feedback
- Experience performing data analysis on new development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to build strong relationships with your stakeholders
What will make you successful:
- Confidence: You recognize the value you bring to the table and use it unapologetically.
- Collaboration: You recognize the value others bring to the table, take time to understand different viewpoints, and seek to learn new things from everyone you work with.
- Growth Mindset: You thrive when facing challenges, like changing priorities or learning something new.
- Relationship Building: People enjoy working with you because you listen to and address concerns and you are passionate about creating the best solution possible.
- Data Driven: You are obsessed with using data both to make decisions and to measure success.
- Excellent Communication: Your writing and speaking are clear, concise, and accurate.
- Pride in Your Work: You consistently deliver high quality work and inspire the same in those you partner with.
What is Catch Co?
At Catch Co, our purpose is to rescue people from the indoors by connecting them with America’s top outdoor sport: fishing. More than 50 million Americans fish every year and Catch Co is the industry leader in creating products, content, and experiences that modern anglers love. Most importantly, we aim to be the industry’s most data-driven and customer-centric company.
We are building 3 unique businesses to deliver on that mission:
- Mystery Tackle Box - Founded in 2012, MTB is the most popular fishing subscription service in the world, with over 5 million boxes shipped (and counting!).
- Karl’s Bait and Tackle - Launched in 2018, Karl’s is a unique and exciting ecommerce experience that brings the local tackle shop to the Internet.
- Catch Co. fishing products - Catch Co also designs and develops some of fishing’s most popular and innovative brands and products, sold online and in retail throughout the world.
To support these businesses, we have built a best-in-class foundation of creativity, technology, data, and a fun and supportive culture. We have also built durable partnerships with some of the industry’s most impactful content creators, influencers, product designers, and more.
As we execute against our mission, our team members remain curious, action-oriented, and collaborative. If that sounds like you, we would love to meet you.
Everybody can fish with us!
These are our core values:
- Passion: We love what we do and we take pride in our work.
- Action: We work hard to get stuff done, with urgency.
- Optimism: We believe that we will succeed, and we are willing to keep trying new things.
- Honesty: We tell it like it is, communicate issues, take accountability and use data to make decisions. We are transparent with customers, partners and employees.
- Curiosity: We look for ways to make things better. We focus on solutions, not problems.
- #happydance: We create happiness for our customers and for each other.
Our culture is fast-moving, hardworking, welcoming and friendly, and we keep our calendar full of opportunities to learn from coworkers and foster community. We love a good team event (like trivia or Quiplash), continued learning (fireside chats led by colleagues), and niche Slack channels like #mlb, #bachelor, #unpopular_opinions, #badjokes and #smallwins.
Catch Co. is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Catch Co. recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other protected status.
Our Benefits:
- "Take what you need" paid time off (PTO) policy
- 11 paid holidays yearly
- Fully distributed team (most employees may work from anywhere in the continental United States!)
- Flexible working schedule
- Two week-long company retreats per year
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - we cover 80-100% of the premium for yourself and your dependents
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employer-sponsored disability insurance
- Employer-sponsored life insurance
- Employee discount program
- 401(K) plan
- Pet insurance
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Free Karl's Club membership, $100 of store credit and free swag
- And more!
Unfortunately, visa sponsorship is not available at this time.