Senior Product Manager (REMOTE)

Discogs is excited to invite you to join our journey to enhance the record collector’s experience with a unique opportunity. We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to champion collaborative innovation that will shape the experience of Discogs users.

Location

While we are a remote company we are only accepting applications at this time from the following areas: OR, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Starting Base Salary $130,000

Who We Are

Discogs is the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use the Discogs Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As Discogs continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

Who We’re Looking For

The objective of the Senior Product Manager is to lead and work with a cross-functional team to deliver on their roadmap. The Senior PM provides strategic input that delivers quantifiable value for end users while ensuring the financial health and growth of the business. The Senior PM draws on their experience to provide business and user-centered analytical decision making while providing leadership that enables a highly-functioning team to quickly execute on strategic priorities.

Essential Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Drives and manages strategic product roadmap priorities. Aligns with business owner’s expectations and articulates vision for the pillar
• Drives goal setting and KPIs for the pillar and aligns to user value and financial outcomes for Discogs
• Runs the execution of large-scale projects, driving alignment with cross-functional teams to plan, align, and deliver product and feature launches
• Keeps a keen eye on team dynamics, spots problems early and leads resolutions to maintain a highly functioning team
• Coordinates with stakeholders such as Marketing and UX to incorporate market and user analysis into product decisions
• Uses thorough documentation to establish requirements and use cases for the purpose of stakeholder alignment and building epics and stories for the backlog
• Represents business interests and the implications and dependencies that come from other teams when making product decisions
• Constantly communicates with stakeholders about project timelines and regularly engages with RACI members to ensure progress
• Consistently evaluates the backlog against capacity and communicates with their manager and pillar leads about constraints
• Validates information that impacts scope, timeline, and resources to ensure work is worth doing and can be accomplished
• Works closely with Product Coordinator(s) and other pillar team leaders to communicate roadmap priorities, ensure day-to-day execution, and coordinate product launches
• Uses data to recommend, monitor, and track the viability of the roadmap and overall health of the pillar’s areas of ownership
• Monitors the pulse of the community during product and feature launches
• Other duties as assigned