Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join Ontra, a leading AI legal tech company, as a Senior Product Manager! Lead a cross-functional product team, driving product strategy and vision for our flagship Contract Automation product. Develop cutting-edge AI and automation solutions, focusing on improving contract processing speed and efficiency. Conduct customer discovery and validation to shape product direction. Translate business objectives into an actionable product roadmap, ensuring seamless product launches and driving adoption. Collaborate with various teams to achieve ambitious annual OKRs. This role requires presence in Santa Barbara or San Francisco office up to once per quarter.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years in Product Management, leading cross-functional teams in high-growth B2B SaaS environments. Background in legal tech, contract lifecycle management (CLM), or private markets is a strong plus
• Execution & Delivery: A proven track record of leading products from concept to launch, with full ownership of the product direction and a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes
• Strategic & Analytical Thinking : You are a strategic thinker who connects product initiatives to business goals and uses data, market insights, and user feedback to make informed decisions
• Prioritization: Skilled in creating and executing product priorities that drive measurable business outcomes
• Customer-Centricity: A deep passion for conducting customer discovery, understanding user problems, and translating those insights into impactful product requirements
• AI Familiarity: Passion for using AI to drive efficiency, both in your workflow and through AI/ML-powered product development. Experience developing AI-driven products is a strong plus
• Customer Discovery: Strong ability to conduct customer discovery and effectively translate insights into actionable product requirements
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to stakeholders and leadership
• Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and design teams to define scope, prioritize tasks, and deliver results
• Agile Methodology: Comfortable working in agile or iterative development environments

Responsibilities

• Lead an Empowered Team: Build and lead a resilient, cross-functional product team of engineering, UX, QE, and data professionals alongside your product trio partners (Eng Manager and UX). You will be tasked with inspiring confidence and curating a psychologically safe environment for your team to navigate change and innovate creatively
• Drive Product Strategy & Vision: Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering leaders to create, promote, and execute a product strategy that achieves our ambitious annual OKRs. You will ensure that your team's priorities have clearly defined goals that align with business outcomes understood across the organization
• Develop Cutting-Edge Solutions: Lead the charge in integrating AI and automation into the core Contract Automation workflow, focusing on solutions to dramatically improve the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of contract processing
• Customer Discovery and Validation: Conduct and drive customer interviews and validation sessions to gather insights that shape product direction
• Execute with Excellence: Translate business objectives into an actionable product roadmap, balancing high-level strategy with hands-on execution to deliver measurable impact. You'll define, track, and share the outcomes of your team's work to demonstrate progress against our goals
• Collaborate to Win: Work closely with Go-To-Market (Sales, Marketing, CS) and Platform teams to ensure seamless product launches, drive adoption, and equip our internal teams with the knowledge they need to succeed

Benefits

• Remote-first working policy, with office hubs in SF, NYC, Santa Barbara, and London
• Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
• Paid flexible time off policy
• Paid parental leave and benefits
• Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
• Company-sponsored LinkedIn Learning accounts, department budgets for professional development, and robust onboarding program
• Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance