Product Manager

Summary

Join PriceSpider as a Product Manager and be responsible for the health and growth of our products. You will guide products from conception to launch, ensuring they are valuable, usable, and feasible. This role involves continuous product discovery, defining user stories, conducting user acceptance testing, and managing the product roadmap and backlog. You will work cross-functionally with designers, engineers, marketing, sales, and support teams. Success in this role requires strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills, along with experience in product management and Agile methodologies. PriceSpider offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible work arrangements and various wellness programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 4-6 years of product or related experience
• Experience in analyzing market and competitors for new opportunities
• Ability to interpret data insights and track key analytics
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence
• Proven ability to drive results independently across teams
• Strong interest in understanding new technologies and systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation skills, and effective meeting management
• Experience representing customer voice through personas, requirements, and product specs
• Exceptional ability to achieve results through influence and collaboration

Responsibilities

• Conduct continuous product discovery (3-5 customer calls per week) to understand customer needs and serve as the Voice of the Customer (VOC)
• Work extensively with designers and validate assumptions with customers
• Conduct market and competitive analysis to support product development efforts
• Work side-by-side with business unit personnel to ensure seamless process integration for marketing, sales, and support operations and to balance the market, business, technical and customer needs to ensure product viability
• Generate and refine detailed user stories from customer needs and solution requirements that guide prototype development
• Work side-by-side with engineering and product designers to develop and test prototypes with target customers to establish Minimum Valuable Products (MVP) that are both feasible and valuable
• Maintain the functional quality of the work being delivered by setting and evaluating expectations and acceptance criteria and communicate priorities based on well-defined and measured business cases
• Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure delivered product meets acceptance criteria and matches prototypes
• Identify and work with customers to beta test new features before full release to make sure customers’ needs were met
• Establish, refine, and communicate through the business and to customers a shared understanding of the vision and roadmap planning for your product; ensure the prioritized backlog aligns with the roadmap plan
• Maintain a prioritized product backlog to ensure the maximum value of delivery, to enable realistic forecasting, alignment with the roadmap, proper communication, and expectation-management
• Communicate with Marketing and Sales teams to ensure the business is informed of the direction and status of the roadmap
• Establish goals and manage to your product scorecards – communicate progress across internal and external stakeholder groups
• Develop a deep understanding of the business drivers of your products – profitability, pricing, services mix, sales channels, etc
• Continuously monitor where your products are in their lifecycle and work holistically across the business to manage lifecycle events (end of life, new product launch, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Masters degree
• Familiarity with enterprise-class customers and products
• Familiarity with Pragmatic Marketing, Scrum, or other Agile practices
• Familiarity with AdTech, Retail Media, Programmatic Advertising

Benefits

• Flexible work-from-home arrangements
• 401K Match
• Flexible vacation
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave (US)
• Technical stipend
• Professional development programs
• Wellness programs