Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Location: Remote – Nationwide

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Product Manager is responsible for driving the development of the A-SCEND product. As the Senior Product Manager, you will collectively own the vision and strategy of the product, you’ll help define the product roadmap, and deliver clear requirements to product stakeholders to help bring your vision to life. You will also be responsible for working collaboratively and iteratively with fellow product managers, designers, engineers, and product marketing. From talking to our customers about their needs and use cases, to ideating on initial product features, to driving the day-to-day product development schedule, to owning the product life cycle, to defining and monitoring metrics that measure the success of the released features – you will help shape the future of the A-SCEND platform with the next set of impactful compliance automation product features.

REPORTS TO: Director, Product Management
PAY CLASSIFICATION: Full-Time, Exempt

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering Leaders to help define and execute our product vision
• Help us mold our culture into one that focuses on the user and encourages product thinking across the company
• Document and build a complex, large-scoped product
• Work directly with engineers and product designers in an agile development environment
• Understand and discuss technical concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members
• Plan, conduct, or participate in user interviews, focus groups, or usability tests
• Identify and organize quantitative feedback from analytics to support product decisions
• Collaborate with product designers to elaborate and plan discovery and design topics
• Help to define a product roadmap and gain buy-in from stakeholders at all levels
• Develop product features through validated learning
• Create innovative and user-friendly product features which provide a strong value proposition to the customer
• Identify, analyze, and solve ambiguous problems
• Manage multiple complex product feature and competing priorities
• Gain buy-in for product direction and communicating product status updates

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION

Desirable but not required: degree or certification in HCI, product management, or other relevant discipline

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of Product Management experience with direct product ownership
• 5+ years of proven experience in user experience research
• 3+ years working at a software company focused on customer experience
• Experience in the compliance and security space desirable, but not required

SKILLS

• Manages end-to-end product delivery and feature delivery
• Comfortable with making product trade-offs and overseeing roadmap strategy and definition
• Self-motivated, proactive, data-driven growth professional with a passion for product-led growth and analytics
• Understands and applies customer feedback, research, and telemetry to the product development process
• Demonstrated experience of delivering complex, large-scoped products
• Proven success running usability studies
• Expert knowledge of SaaS methodologies
• Experience collaborating with product management and engineering teams
• Understanding of product thinking best practices and process
• Excellent communication, collaboration, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to meet deadlines with a high degree of motivation
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work individually as well as collaboratively

BENEFITS

• Employer Paid Health, Vision, Dental
• 401 (K) Plan with Employer Matching
• Competitive Bonus Structure
• Employer Paid Life Insurance and Disability Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off Plan
• Virtual Employment
• Technology Allowance
• Vacation Bonus
• Paid Office Closure December 24-January 1
• Paid Holidays Schedule
• Certification Reimbursement
• Flu Shot Reimbursement

ABOUT A-LIGN

A-LIGN is a technology-enabled security and compliance partner trusted by more than 2,400 global organizations to confidently mitigate cybersecurity risks. We work with small businesses to global enterprises with services spanning across SOC, Penetration Testing, PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO and privacy compliance. Our proprietary compliance management platform is transforming the compliance experience by enabling an anytime, anywhere approach to audits.