Arena is hiring a
Product Manager

Summary

The job is for a Senior Product Manager at Arena, a fast-growing cloud company in San Francisco. The role involves running the end-to-end product lifecycle, creating and executing strategies, managing the product backlog, collaborating with teams, and partnering with marketing, sales, and customer support.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product experience, preferably in a SaaS platform software
• Industry experience and familiarity with UI design and best practices, APIs, general programming languages and concepts, including web and mobile application architectures and components, and network effect concepts
• Experience in platform and integration initiatives, ranging from scaling efforts to using third-party solutions
• Oversee the development and execution of integration strategies to ensure seamless connectivity across products
• Identify and address scalability challenges to support growth and increase system robustness
• Strong organizational skills: prioritization, effective time management, conflict resolution, risk identification, and mitigation
• Depth of experience leading business-critical product initiatives. You can take big ideas and turn them into a roadmap of features and research with minimal guidance
• Tireless eye for detail and demonstrated an obsession with building great user experiences
• Natural leadership. You know how to influence people to get things done across any job function. People love working with you
• Experience with SCRUM/Agile development process
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken) and feel comfortable talking to native English speakers on a daily basis

Responsibilities

• Run the end-to-end product lifecycle of Arena initiatives you are responsible for
• Create, communicate, and execute the roadmap and strategy to achieve the goals
• Create use-cases, user stories, and detailed product requirements that clearly articulate the functionality of the product that will be developed
• Own and manage the product backlog and prioritize product enhancements, partner, and customer requests by using sound judgment and decisive tradeoffs
• Develop competitive expertise to assist in outbound product positioning and inform internal development priorities
• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, and Marketing teams to deliver an amazing product and an exceptional user experience
• Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support to successfully roll out the products and ensure an outstanding end-to-end user experience

Preferred Qualifications

BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education

Benefits

• A unique work environment and the chance to collaborate with diverse teammates across multiple countries
• The freedom and tools to do your best work, and foster an environment you can do it in