Senior Product Manager

Company: STEAMe LLC
Location: Chicago
Posted on: November 8, 2024

Job Description:

STEAMe Senior Product ManagerLocation: Chicago, IllinoisWho We AreSTEAMe is a social impact technology based in Chicago. Our purpose is to make it easy for people to qualify for and apply to skills-based jobs in the STEAMe digital workplace so they can increase their lifetime earnings. We provide the digital infrastructure connecting learners to career pathways and ultimately a family sustaining incomes and high-demand jobs. Founded by Dr. Stacy Lindau from University of Chicago and Dr. Nicole Pinkard from Northwestern University, who are experts in empowering communities and building social impact systems to increase access to opportunity, create mobility pathways, and solve high-impact social challenges.Senior Product Manager RoleThe Senior Product Manager plays an essential role in the creation and continuous improvement of STEAMe products. At STEAMe, the Senior Product Manager manages the complete product development life cycle to understand customer/user problems, prioritize opportunities, and collaborate with design and engineering to bring new solutions to market.Responsibilities

• Engage, collaborate and align with stakeholders, client teams and your squad to manage expectations, experiment together, and build a cohesive cross-functional strategy.
• Help with market research to deeply understand our target market, competitors, industry standards, validate our business model, and evaluate pilot opportunities.
• Engage users in problem discovery and solution discovery through a well-rounded toolkit of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
• Collaborate with Product Design to create wireframes and clickable prototypes to illustrate solutions for user validation and epic planning.
• Facilitate ideation sessions with cross-functional team members, work with design and engineer counterparts to storymap releases, and write user stories.
• Manage quarterly outcomes and release planning process by working with design and engineering to estimate and prioritize work.
• Collaborate with Marketing on product learnings, GTM communications, and prepare internal staff to support feature success.
• Measure success of feature releases, communicate findings, and develop objectives for continuous improvement.
• Product roadmap creation, communication, and maintenance for your areas of ownership.
• Acts as a product evangelist for your squad's strategy and overall STEAMe product vision and strategy, keeping the squad and stakeholders informed and excited about where we are going.Requirements
  • 3-5 years of work experience in product management at a software company.
  • Adept at writing product requirements and strong prioritization skills according to customer and business impact.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator.
  • Outstanding critical thinking and problem-solving skills gives you the ability to take complex problems and distill them into discrete concepts.
  • Experience working on Agile software teams and creating jointly owned goals and metrics.
  • User-centered, must have a flexible approach to understanding your user and developing innovative solutions to improve their experiences.
  • Data-driven and analytical, must be able to define success metrics and track ongoing usage.
  • Demonstrated passion for social entrepreneurship or leveraging technology to address social challenges.
  • Must be willing to travel to Chicago for 3-5 consecutive days a quarter.Preferred Experience
    • Previous work on workforce development products or multi-sided platforms.
    • Experience creating products from 0 to 1.
    • Previous experience working in B2B2C or on a product with 2 or more user types.
    • Quick learner with a commitment to quality who is comfortable navigating ambiguity in a start-up environment.
    • Located in driving distance of the Chicago office to work a Hybrid schedule (2 days in office, 3 days remote).Environmental Job Requirements & Working ConditionsThis position is based in Chicago, IL. and is not eligible for remote work. STEAMe is a Hybrid work environment, with 3 days work from home and 2 days in-office work, today on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification.STEAMe is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics.
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