Senior Product Manager, Degreed
EMEA, Germany
€150-190k
Upskilling platform for businesses
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Upskilling platform for businesses
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
€150-190k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Based on the belief that it is knowledge, skills and experience, rather than a piece of paper, which defines people's futures, Degreed's mission is to help users to achieve their own personal educational missions.
Role
Who you are
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to define and contribute to product vision and strategy in alignment with business goals
- Execution & Delivery: Strong focus on driving key product initiatives to completion in a fast-paced environment
- Technical Acumen: Strong understanding of software development, cloud technologies, and platform architecture
- Market Awareness: Experience in assessing customer needs, conducting competitive analysis, and identifying opportunities in enterprise SaaS markets
- Communication: Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills to align stakeholders and drive cross-functional collaboration
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Skilled in leveraging metrics and analytics to guide product decisions
- Customer-Centric Approach: Demonstrated ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences
- Experience: 5-10 years of product management experience in SaaS companies
- Industry Knowledge: Experience and familiarity with enterprise software and large enterprise customer challenges
- Agile Expertise: Comfortable working within agile methodologies and adapting to dynamic, global environments
- Technical Proficiency: Knowledge of API-driven platforms, understanding of developer ecosystems, and experience with tools such as JIRA. Familiarity with AI-driven product development, prototyping, and product-led experimentation is highly desirable
- Bonus Experience: Background in corporate learning, HR information systems, or enterprise learning solutions
What the job involves
- We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Product Manager to join our team. In this critical role, you will help define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Degreed’s application. Your expertise in the enterprise SaaS market and track record of delivering high-impact products will shape the future of Degreed
- Specifically, this role will be responsible for key elements of the application, which will naturally evolve over time based on our business priorities. One primary focus will be how we leverage AI to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and engagement of Degreed. This role will balance strategic planning with hands-on execution; spending around 25% on strategic planning, 25% on both Product Marketing and External Engagement, and roughly 50% on operational execution
- Product Strategy & Execution: Contribute to and execute on product strategy, ensuring alignment with company objectives and market needs
- Roadmap Development: Support roadmap prioritization based on impact and customer feedback. Translate strategic goals into actionable initiatives. Work closely with engineering to ensure timely and high-quality execution
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure successful product launches and adoption
- Market Analysis: Conduct market research, customer interviews, and competitive analysis to inform new product development opportunities and enhancements
- Product Lifecycle Management: Manage features from ideation to launch, ensuring they meet customer and business objectives
- Customer Advocacy: Act as the voice of the customer, ensuring the application meets and exceeds user expectations
- Metrics & KPIs: Track and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure success and refine strategy
- Product Enablement: Collaborate with internal teams to provide the necessary knowledge and tools for effective sales, marketing, and customer support
Our take
Degreed is a high calibre name in the employee upskilling space and is used by over a third of Fortune 500 companies. Some of their best known clients include Pepsico, Shopify, American Airlines, Boeing, HP and Visa.
Alongside providing a learning platform with courses, books, videos, articles and podcasts for skills development, the company also uses the data it gathers to connect learners with suitable projects and job opportunities, even within their own company. This is where Degreed’s best value lies, as employees are more likely to trust and remain loyal to companies where they can see a path for how skills development allows for career growth.
With just enough investor backing and funding to expand beyond their offices in the USA, the Netherlands, the UK and Australia, Degreed is well positioned to grow even more in the future, especially as organisations in these countries seek to use employee benefits to differentiate themselves.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2023
$50.9m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$153m
SERIES D
Total funding: $388.3m
Company benefits
- Work where (and when) you work best: Degreed has always been a remote-work company with small offices where the biggest concentration of our people live. Team lunches, travel budgets for on-site visits, virtual happy hours, weekly all-hands meetings, and monthly release parties keep our teams connected and working as one.
- Health, wellness, and beyond: Degreed is expanding both organically and through acquisition. As we build a global company, benefits outside the US are commensurate with the presence in each region. In the US market, we've beefed up the common benefits (health, dental, vision) with some additions, like dependent care allowance, 401(k) matching, and funding your personal learning mission each quarter.
- Generous and flexible time off: Recuperation is just as important as getting things done, so we encourage our team to recharge their batteries often.
- Best-in-class tech and software: We’ll even support making your home office awesome. No more working at the coffee table.
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
David Blake
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)David started his career as an Oliver Wyman Management Consultant, before leaving after a year and a half to found Chegg. He then co-founded Degreed in January 2012, serving as CEO until 2018 and Executive Chairman since.
Eric Sharp
(Technology Advisor & Co-Founder)Director of Software Dev at MediConnect Global, acquired by Verisk for $348M.Developer and director at Novarad.
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