Senior Product Manager, Handshake

• Deep experience and understanding of Product Led Growth (PLG) in B2B SaaS, having worked with a product with significant free user base and developed self-service purchasing and adoption journeys
• Strong foundation in roadmap development and releasing products for complex, multifaceted marketplace businesses or SaaS platforms
• 5+ years partnering with engineering teams to ship code. Ideally in a many-stakeholder environment with dependencies and collaboration
• Strong systems and analytical thinker. Can connect the dots, spot challenges and edge cases, integrate multiple considerations
• Extensive experience presenting both internally and externally including working with customers, users, and internal cross-functional partners and executives
• Working knowledge of data-driven applications including mapping, schemas, permissions that inform user interactions and downstream analytics
• User focused. You dive headfirst into understanding the needs of employers and build products grounded in data and research

Desirable

• Handshake is hiring a Senior Product Manager reporting to the Director of Product on our Employer team focusing on product led growth
• This role is a unique opportunity to help accelerate Handshake’s growth in a way that drives Handshake’s mission and our business
• This role will be responsible for making those powerful tools more accessible to small- and medium-size businesses, and therefore expand access to opportunity for more students
• And this role will help drive massive business value
• Our initial venture into self-service doubled run-rate revenue in the past quarter—now, it’s time to scale
• You’ll be part of a close-knit cross-functional team of not just R&D but also Go-To-Market, including marketing operations, product marketing, sales, customer success and insights
• At the same time, you’ll be mindful about making a positive societal impact, increasing access for diverse talent in entry level recruiting
• You’ll own the lifecycle end-to-end for your product area
• Leadership. You’ll represent your squad and product area to executives, and translate company-wide strategies to your squad and into your roadmap. You’ll inspire your team on the product vision
• Product strategy. You’ll ensure that your squads have a cohesive and differentiated product strategy that ladders up into the Employer team and company strategy
• Product development: You’ll lead a high performing cross-functional squad, including engineering and design partners, from research and roadmap planning to delivery
• Launch and adoption: You’ll partner closely on go-to-market and implementation, working with marketing, sales and customer success. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on. It’s never someone else’s problem. You’ll run beta programs and pilots to maximize learning and minimize code investment, getting close to the customer and the details through the process
• Cross-Handshake partnership: You’ll work with stakeholders across Handshake’s largest team (the broader Employer team) and on other sides of the Handshake marketplace (EDUs and Student) to innovate quickly but deliberately
• Goals, metrics and tracking: You’ll create a robust and clear thread of data from strategy through development through in-market iteration