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Job type full-time
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About marketerhire
Marketerhire’s mission is to make great marketing accessible to all.
Launched publicly in early 2019, marketerhire has quickly become the largest talent marketplace for digital marketers and is helping shape the categories of on-demand staffing, future of marketing, and future of work.
Marketerhire is already one of tech’s fastest growing marketplaces and has helped more than 30,000 customers, including netflix, hp, angel list, allbirds, and moreBacked by leaders across the tech ecosystem, marketerhire is well capitalized by successful investors including the founders/execs of zillow, goodrx, wpp, ziprecruiter, thrive market, and more.
We also contribute to the future of work, helping our marketers earn significant additional income while eliminating the hassle and risk of freelancing full-timeBy default, all of our engagements are remote, enabling our talent to work anywhere in the world.
At marketerhire, we’re passionate about building a diverse teamWe care deeply about diversity, equality, and inclusion and strive to build a culture where everyone, from any background, feels included, supported, and free to be themselves.
If your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applyingExperience comes in many forms – skills are transferable, and passion goes a long wayWe know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, which is why we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to applyWe are are a fully remote company, giving you the freedom to live and work where you would like.
Position description
As marketerhire’s first product manager, you will work directly with the ceo and be responsible for building and leading the company’s product management function and help define and refine the future of our product and, eventually, larger product ecosystem.
You will stand up a professional product management function and communicate those developments companywide to excite the team about the next phase of how marketerhire will be building its product and marketplace.
You will influence the ceo and c-suite’s product vision and strategy, shaping the bounds, reach, and resourcing of the product department in the near and long term.
You will ensure that process, tooling, communication and documentation are all of a high standard as well as push an ambitious pace of shipping new updates and features.
You will work cross-functionally with all department heads (sales, marketing, advertising, marketplace, talent, engineering, data science and design) to understand user needs and translate that into products that drive significant enterprise value.
You will be customer and data-centric, ensuring that the company has the appropriate customer and data feedback loops from both sides of the marketplace in order to make the best product decisions for maximum growth of the business.
You will be prepared to develop functional knowledge of all core areas of the business such as sales, marketing, advertising, marketplace and talent.
Responsibilities
Work closely with leadership and key stakeholders to consistently accelerate the expansion and improvement of marketerhire’s product(s) and identify best opportunities for growth.
Report on progress, owning and iterating on kpi’s to benchmark and optimize product performance, performing risk assessments, coordinating delivery, holding retrospectives for all released features, and actively communicating contingency and mitigation plans for the team.
Lead a team of engineers, analysts, and project managers to rapidly ship product updates that improve customer satisfaction and business growth.
Own and lead all aspects of our product development by developing a deep understanding of both internal and external customer needs and define the scope of development for new and ongoing feature improvements.
Create or manage creation of product documentation including one-pagers, specs, strategy & vision, user guides & faqs, roadmaps, designs/prototypes, success metrics, research documents, etc.,
Prioritize and coordinate execution of inbound tech requests from internal stakeholders, ensuring all requests are accurately scoped, and status is consistently communicated with stakeholders and leadership.
Oversee the new company-wide project brief approval process, ensuring specs and feature requests are properly scoped, resourced, and retro’d.
Run various ad-hoc research and business analyses including assessments of current competitor offerings, seeking opportunities for differentiation, assessing opportunities and risks.
Influence leadership and stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategy and buy-in across the organization.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in software product management.
Previous experience at a high-growth tech startup.
Previous experience implementing and managing agile methodologies.
Proven experience utilizing data and analytics to make high-impact business decisions.
Familiarity utilizing various data repositories and project management software such as hubspot, airtable, segment, and looker.
Exemplary interpersonal, communication, and project management skills.
Strong leadership skills and the ability to work well under pressure and multitask, while maintaining a keen attention to detail.
Experience and desire to build out product and project management functions in a rapidly growing remote startup atmosphere.
Bonus: marketplace experience, familiarity with sql, data/analyst experience, computer science degree or software engineering skills.
In the first week you will:
Onboard and integrate into marketerhire.
Become acquainted with the cross-functional teams that you will be working alongside to close new business.
Audit our technology stacks and user journeys on both sides of the marketplace.
In the first month you will:
Complete an assessment of the current state of our product and technology and prioritize your high-level roadmap and backlog, implementing features and optimizations that deliver high business impact.
Define/refine kpis as measures of product and technology success.
Continuously improve the team’s processes and workflows through meaningful contributions.
Work across all teams to ensure our product roadmap includes tools, features, and assets that will support their work.
Review and refine annual and quarterly goals.
Create and maintain an agile product management workflow to facilitate rapid but high-quality improvements.
Determine any team or resourcing changes needed.
In the first two months you will:
Identify and ship product changes that have led to meaningful kpi improvements.
Establish a clear product management culture and workflow companywide.
Make team and other resource changes to the product department.
Establish productive and positive working relationships with all of your stakeholders.
Led the documentation of marketerhire’s product and roadmap.
In the first three months you will:
Regularly ship high-impact features and regularly utilize data and analytics to determine their success.
Build out a framework for effective and continuous backlog prioritization.
Improve conversion rate kpis through testing and iterating.
Establish our product culture as a tech-first/product development-minded culture through regular communication and company-wide visibility into projects on the product roadmap.
Marketerhire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
