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Job Description
Forbes Marketplace is looking for a Product Manager to join our rapidly growing team within the Small Business Vertical. This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly contribute to the development of 0-1 products in our innovative business hub, identifying new monetization opportunities, addressing unique needs of underserved markets, and building highly differentiated products for our large portfolio of small business owners.
Responsibilities:
- Identify monetization opportunities and untapped customer markets in the small business space, creating unique and impactful solutions.
- Lead the development of new software products, understanding customer pain points and employing a high degree of craftsmanship aligned with our product principles.
- Rapidly execute product initiatives, promoting a culture of learning and drawing insights from each project.
- Engage in direct communication with customers for product discovery, ensuring our solutions are closely aligned with their needs.
- Identify and implement strategies to continuously improve product reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and performance.
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve standards, tooling, and processes.
- Utilize SQL for data analysis, deploy experiments, and generate actionable insights to inform product development and strategy.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience in a product management role, ideally with a background in software engineering.
- Demonstrated success in developing software solutions that not only meet but exceed operating targets in terms of reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Understanding of engineering principles and experience in partnering with engineering teams to improve standards, tooling, and processes.
- Preference for candidates with familiarity with the small business sector and a proven track record of building high-impact solutions in this space.
- Proficiency in SQL, GA, Amplitude with experience in conducting experiments and extracting actionable insights from data.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, strong leadership and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to handle multiple tasks under pressure.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation package
- Ability to work remotely
- Unlimited PTO
- Every third Friday of the month off
- Winter break closure; the week between Christmas and New Years
- Home office setup
- Wellness Reimbursement
Additional Information
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