Overview:
Building connections in the real world is a universal human need. PeopleGrove’s purpose is to ensure every student and professional has access to a community and the connections to succeed. Our products drive life-changing, door-opening connections for students at a critical stage of their professional development.
PeopleGrove is looking for a senior product manager to lead one of our product pods as we focus on building lovable products and driving platform growth. This person will work with a team of developers and collaborate with our data analysts, designers, product leadership, and company co-founders to determine product strategy and deliver results in their product area.
Role Description:
30% Strategy | 30% Execution | 20% Project Management | 10% Analytics
PeopleGrove is looking for a senior product manager who’s passionate about driving real impact and helping learners find their next step in life. In this role, you’ll drive impactful platform enhancements and creative new feature development. You’ll leverage your bias toward action, knowledge of data, our market, and our unique users, and passion for creating best-in-class products to break down complex problems into steps that create product improvements at a rapid speed.
3 Reasons You’ll Love This Job:
- Drive Product Strategy and Development: You’ll have significant influence over product strategy and development in your area.
- Voice and Seat at the Table: You’ll have a voice in shaping the company’s direction and be an integral part of decision-making.
- Impact: Your work will have a huge impact on the product and the potential to change the lives of future leaders globally.
Responsibilities:
- Strategy:
- Develop and lead the product vision and strategy for your product area.
- Maintain product and market knowledge to determine PeopleGrove’s strategic and competitive position.
- Individual Contributor:
- Work hands-on with design and engineering to bring product ideas to life from concept to launch, prioritising features based on impact and ROI.
- Build the product roadmap and launch meaningful new features.
- Project Management:
- Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to build a product that our users love.
- Manage day-to-day project activities to deliver on your vision.
- Identify opportunities to incorporate new product features on an ongoing basis.
- Strategically assess new opportunities and develop alignment around these.
- Analytics:
- Define, track, and analyze metrics that inform the success of our product, including KPIs and A/B tests.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative research to synthesize product requirements that enhance user satisfaction.
Skills and Experience:
- 4+ years of product management experience, including working with a software engineering team to build products from concept to launch.
- Demonstrable ability to prioritize amongst competing opportunities, balancing customer needs with business priorities.
- Expertise in using analytics, user research, and structured thinking to drive decisions and improve products.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills and a passion for serving user needs.
- Stellar organizational skills with the ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize time and energy.
- Experience working closely with design teams to deliver delightful user experiences.
- Ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
- Strong motivation to make a positive impact on the world and help alumni and students find their next step in life.
- Bonus: Data analysis skills, including SQL.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with changing expectations and responsibilities.
- Comfortable working with a largely remote team.
- People who have worked with you will attest to these skills.
PeopleGrove is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
What We Do
As higher education’s first Career Access Platform™, PeopleGrove is a smart career network that recommends Mentorship, Networking, Career Exploration, and the Job Connections that together effectively build the social capital learners need to succeed.
Unlike other student success tools and alumni engagement software, PeopleGrove is lifelong career support that’s smart, personal, and helpful even to those without a network, experience, or clear starting point.
Established in 2015, PeopleGrove set out to build the most helpful network ever created because we believe career fulfillment is a right every single person should have. To date, we've helped millions of learners on their career journeys:
- 1+ million connections
- 96% retention rate
- 20+ million users
- 60% of US News Top 100 Universities
- 5/5 average rating from user interactions
- 450+ customers served
PeopleGrove is proudly part of The Riverside Company portfolio of companies. With their partnership, we are a transformational organization that prides itself on building an environment where curiosity is rewarded and the unknown is embraced.
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