Senior Product Manager

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to help lead the evolution of our AI Strategic Sourcing platform. The ideal candidate thinks like a general manager with an entrepreneurial spirit. You are high energy, thrive working in a fast-paced environment, and are able to operate across the business. You are able to dream big while being able to translate that into an action for designers, engineers, and go-to-market functions. You embrace the voice of the customer.  You can talk to customers with the goal of determining appropriate feature sets and products and performing market research and competitor analysis. You are able to transform business objectives into features that will benefit the Strategic Sourcing industry. The product manager will leverage those conversations to craft a world-class product roadmap alongside the Fairmarkit engineering team. Additionally, the perfect candidate will help with go-to-market positioning, continuously support go-to-market teams, and iterate based on adoption metrics. 

Candidates must have experience in product development with working knowledge of user interface/user experience best practices. This will include business analysis from all business stakeholders and internal/external clients, coordination of product development using agile methodology between stakeholders, the software engineering team, and front-end designers, to deliver product to spec and on time. An amazing level of attention to detail is a necessity. 

Responsibilities:

• Understand and lead analyses of the competitive environment, customers and product metrics to determine the right set of features to drive engagement and usage of Fairmarkit
• You must have a strong business acumen that can be translated into a comprehensive product and marketing roadmap to deliver on business goals
• At Fairmarkit you will be responsible for the complete product life cycle. You can take end-to-end ownership of products and features from concept through delivery including prioritizing, wireframing, prototyping, user testing, specifying requirements, QA, and analysis 
• Developing user stories and breaking down requirements into deliverable functionality
• Recognize and predict use cases to help design intuitive applications
• You should have a history of leading new products from inception to delivery with a path to iterate continuously based on customer feedback. Create new unique product offering based on the market needs and cutting edge  technology and UX ideas
• Demonstrate an ability to use qualitative and quantitative metrics to drive product decisions and measure adoption of key success metrics to drive growth and customer retention.  Select appropriate metrics, create reporting dashboards and drive adoption of features and communication based on that reporting
• As a product manager building cross-functional relationships are critical to success. You need to be able to demonstrate you can work across the business with designer, engineers, marketing, sales, and customer success to align product vision and feature. Work directly with business stakeholders, clients, designers, developers and engineers to coordinate the building of applications to spec and on time

• Have an engineering or computer science background
• At least 2-4 years of experience in relevant business, product management, or UX role 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Able to take feedback constructively and iterate on ideas and solutions from multiple stakeholders with differing opinions
• A meticulous thinker who can effectively work out all the details when presented with big ideas
• Knowledge and willingness to use hypothesis-driven development
• Good knowledge of product analytics frameworks like Amplitude and Fullstory
• Adaptable attitude; comfortable with a fast-paced, quickly evolving market, product, and organization 
• Experience working within an agile development process, specifically with Scrum and backlog management tools
• Understanding of user-centric design
• Ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Business understanding of enterprise sourcing, procurement or payments is a huge plus. 
• Demonstration of creativity and out-the-box thinking in both uncovering user problems and developing solutions
• Growth-mindset