Product Manager Job Description
About the role
We need a Product Manager to own the direction of a product area from discovery through launch and beyond. You will talk to customers, prioritize a roadmap, and work shoulder to shoulder with design and engineering to ship things people love. The ideal candidate blends sharp judgment, clear communication, and a bias toward outcomes over output.
Key responsibilities
- Own the product roadmap and priorities
- Discover and validate customer problems
- Lead cross-functional delivery from idea to launch
Day-to-day responsibilities
- Set and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and prioritized roadmap
- Run customer interviews and research to uncover and validate real problems
- Write crisp product specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering
- Prioritize the backlog using impact, effort, and confidence rather than opinion
- Define success metrics and track adoption, retention, and other outcomes after launch
- Partner daily with design and engineering through discovery, build, and release
- Analyze usage data and feedback to decide what to build, cut, or iterate on
- Coordinate go-to-market with marketing, sales, and support for each release
- Balance new features against reliability, tech debt, and user experience
- Communicate progress, trade-offs, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience in a product, technical, or business field
- 3 or more years in product management shipping software products end to end
- Proven experience owning a roadmap and making prioritization calls with trade-offs
- Strong grasp of product discovery, metrics, and working with design and engineering
- Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences
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