Ashby Senior Product Manager at Ashby to own roadmap and strategy for product areas including Outbound Sourcing, Product Platform, and AI Platform. Focus on eliminating customer frustration and delivering impactful product improvements.
Responsibilities
Drive Impact: Deeply understand our customers and ship impactful product improvements and investments to maintain our strong velocity.
Quality: Apply your strong product taste and sound judgement to deliver solutions that are both powerful and a joy to use. Use your judgment to identify areas where we need to improve quality before shipping.
Prioritization and Strategy: Maintain a roadmap to ensure engineering is never blocked, and set a compelling strategy and vision for the next 6-18 months.
Customer Research: Spend time with customers and customer-facing teams. Synthesize customer feedback, research, and competitive intel to drive smart prioritization choices.
Execution Excellence: Set the pace for your product area by identifying bottlenecks, scoping effectively, and driving projects toward high-impact releases. Stay close to engineering work to navigate tradeoffs, manage technical risks, and resolve execution challenges.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner across go-to-market teams to bring the features and products your team builds to the market. Anticipate and plan for the needs to help inform pricing, marketing, and customer support.
Ownership and reliability: follow through on commitments, manage time ruthlessly, respond promptly to stakeholders, and communicate proactively when priorities or timelines change.
You could be a great fit if
Qualification
You may not be a great fit ifWe Work Differently
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You can demonstrate taste - you care about the quality of the products you build and use
You're an excellent writer and synthesizer; you bring product knowledge and clarity to the entire organization and enable Engineers with product insights
You can build a thesis for prioritization and communicate priorities using a sound strategy that combines principled thinking, research, and data
You leverage tools and processes to build operational excellence into your product process
You may not be a great fit if
You prefer to specify exactly what Engineering should build rather than give engineers room to own the solution.
You dislike written documentation and prefer to manage the team via meetings and quick Slack messages.
You’re primarily interested in shipping features and not thinking through how to make them reusable platform capabilities.
You don’t enjoy doing deep research yourself and prefer to outsource that UX research, market research, and data teams.
You’re uncomfortable moving with urgency, making tradeoffs, and reprioritizing when new information emerges.
You’re primarily motivated by achieving a metric more than delivering a great product experience for customers.
