Senior Product Manager

Posted 16 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
160K-190K
Senior level
Consumer Web
The Role
As a Senior Product Manager at Forerunner, you will drive the development of resilience software for governments, defining product strategy and managing cross-functional teams to create impactful solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

Hi! We're Forerunner.

We believe that adaptation is a necessity, not a luxury, and communities deserve access to powerful software that helps them plan for the future. The challenge of climate change is complex – it implicates how governments plan, manage capital, and communicate to stakeholders. Forerunner helps government agencies do these things better by empowering them to access, understand, and mobilize local-level flood risk data at scale. Our software is built to be easy-to-use, so that the planners and floodplain managers preparing for our future can focus on the important stuff.

About the role

As a Senior Product Manager at Forerunner, you'll drive the development and adoption of resilience software for governments of all sizes. You'll own the product roadmap for one of our core platform teams, focusing on building the underlying capabilities that power our multi-product platform. You'll translate customer needs into cohesive product strategies that deliver measurable impact for communities. You'll work at the intersection of government requirements and innovative technology to help deliver accessible, actionable tools that create more resilient communities.

What you'll doProduct Strategy & Vision

  • Define and execute a product strategy that balances the complex needs of governments with usability and impact
  • Develop a clear roadmap for features that address both immediate customer needs and long-term platform goals
  • Identify opportunities to turn disparate customer requests into cohesive features that solve broader challenges
  • Lead the development of key platform capabilities like document automation, workflow automation, and data management tools

Product Development

  • Conduct in-depth customer discovery through interviews and data analysis to identify government needs and market opportunities
  • Translate user requirements into clear product direction, empowering our Engineering and Design teams to build effective solutions
  • Rapidly test and validate product hypotheses through small, incremental releases, with a focus on delivering value quickly and iterating based on feedback
  • Equip Sales and Customer Success teams with the tools and knowledge to effectively communicate product value to government clients

Cross-functional Leadership

  • Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to develop effective go-to-market strategies
  • Work closely with engineers to understand technical constraints and opportunities
  • Collaborate effectively with designers to ensure a cohesive user experience across the platform
  • Lead product webinars, create demo videos, and develop documentation for internal and external audiences
  • Navigate the nuances of working with government stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, and become a subject matter expert across a variety of government workflows

What we're looking for

  • 5-8 years of proven product management experience with a track record of delivering impactful products
  • Experience building B2B software products, preferably in an iterative, customer-centric environment
  • Strong product sense and the ability to define and adapt processes to meet evolving customer and business needs
  • Exceptional product and design taste, and the ability to synthesize diverse customer inputs into cohesive product solutions
  • Experience working in fast-paced startup environments
  • Demonstrated excellence in cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
  • Technical understanding sufficient to effectively partner with engineers and make informed product decisions
  • Ability to break down complex problems into smaller, testable hypotheses
  • Clear communication skills and an ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Willingness to deeply learn and engage with the domain (floodplain management, emergency response, etc.)

Strong candidates may also have

  • Experience building products for governments and within regulated environments (PII, SOC2, ADA, FEDRAMP)
  • Understanding of geospatial data and GIS systems
  • Background in enterprise software development, deployment, and adoption
  • Experience with data-heavy applications or platforms
  • Programming experience or technical background
  • Experience leading product initiatives from 0 to 1

Our team has a lot to offer.

Forerunner is an early-stage company with an interdisciplinary team. We are motivated by seemingly intractable problems and work hard to support one another.

We're mission-driven. Our mission orients our business strategy and pushes us to work with a sense of urgency. We're in the weeds -- our entire team spends time engaging with our partners in the field to better understand the real-world problems they face.

We're a small team. As a member of our growing team, you will quickly become an invaluable part of our organization and have a meaningful impact on our business and technical direction. We welcome unique perspectives and backgrounds. Your opinion matters and we hope you'll share it.

We're a remote-first organization, with offices in NYC, San Francisco, and Portland, ME. Many members of our team work remotely, but we have small offices in San Francisco, NYC, and Portland, ME. We offer schedule flexibility for all of our employees and ask for accountability in return.

We want you to be happy and healthy. Forerunner offers competitive compensation, health/vision/dental coverage, and commuter benefits. We also have a quarterly wellness reimbursement so that you can have flexibility in defining what "health" means to you.

The salary range for this position is $160,000-$190,000. This posting may span more than one career level. Compensation is determined based on a variety of factors, including an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, and working location.

Top Skills

Geospatial Data
Gis Systems
Product Management
Software Development
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
18 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Forerunner is a venture capital firm dedicated to the modern consumer and the ambitious teams reshaping categories. ‍

Since our inception in 2012, the consumer has been our North Star. We commit ourselves to having a constant pulse on what people are doing and why, and we closely observe how world events shape the way we live. We study subtle changes in people’s behavior and mindset, and project how needs and priorities might shift as people seek solutions for critical problems and new aspirations.

We’ve invested in category-defining companies like Faire, Chime, Glossier, Hims&Hers, OURA, The Farmer’s Dog, Ritual, and more. With over $2.3 billion in assets under management and hundreds of investments to date, Forerunner is amongst the first women-led venture capital firms to achieve such milestones

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