Product Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Bring together insights from every area to design and build the customer experience
• Ship high-quality, new products and features on a weekly basis
• Define and articulate user facing features of the product, including understanding how users will interact with the product and ensuring that these interactions are engaging and intuitive
• Collaborate with multiple business partners to scope, design and develop new features to meet growth, P&L and customer goals
• Rapidly synthesize complex issues into easily understood product requirements and an easy to use user experience
• Develop a deep understanding of user needs and behaviors
• Work closely with UI designers and developers to ensure that the interactive elements of the product are consistent, visually appealing and functionally effective
• Conduct user research to gather insights into how users interact with the product. This includes usability testing, A/B testing, and other methods to validate and refine interactive features
• Create usability test plans, conduct qualitative interviews, synthesize and report on feedback to inform design and development decisions
• Write comprehensive user stories for key product features, including acceptance criteria, and participate in integration and user acceptance testing (UAT) and functionality testing
• Track and report on engagement metrics, and make data driven decisions to improve the product
• Validate design decisions and understand the impact of different interactive elements on user experience and conversion rates
• Manage the lifecycle of product features UX from conception through launch and beyond. This includes prioritizing tasks, setting timelines, and ensuring that projects stay on track
• Analyze user data and translate insights into actionable product improvements.
• Provide thought leadership in design thinking and user-centered design principles
• Keep up-to-date with the latest trends in technology and design as well as the competitive landscape, and incorporate these insights into the product strategy
• Effectively visualize and communicate design ideas
• Define and track KPIs and key results around the user experience.
• Be an end-user expert on the current PEX platform and all product user experience

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 2+ years developing / managing products / digital experiences; prior experience working on small business tools, SaaS products, payments or financial services, or commerce platforms is a plus
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills (both visual and written) to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools such as JIRA or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with A/B and multivariate testing tools such as Optimizely or VWO
• Experience in conducting user research and usability testing
• Proficiency using analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Amplitude, or Mixpanel
• Expertise in using design and prototyping tools such as Figma or Adobe XD for creating detailed wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes, enabling effective visualization and communication of design ideas
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Nice to Have: Experience with CRM platforms (such as Salesforce or Hubspot), familiarity with CDP systems (such as Segment or Rudderstack)
• Nice to Have: Have a portfolio demonstrating a proven track record of shipping user-centric design work

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