What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at Shift.org?
Your Role
As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for the ideation, research, prioritization and delivery features that help our members make career changes. At our start up, you will prioritize and build for both the military member user and the hiring or recruiter user. You will have an array of responsibilities, from playing the Product Owner role on our development team to leading discovery and requirement scoping of high priority/ROI initiatives.
This role is a key, second addition to our Product team, reporting into the Senior Product Manager.
What You’ll Do
- Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Operations, Customer Success and Sales to understand needs as well as find and communicate solutions to meet them.
- Drive ideas into features through wireframing, discovery, requirement writing and delivery in line with the overall product roadmap. Some feature areas this role might own through these phases:
- A personalized dashboard for our members that suggests events, courses, and programs based on their Shift membership status.
- A dashboard for hiring partners to track their personal and team activity in the platform.
- Deliver varying ‘Talent Views’ of transitioning and veteran military talent to different customer industries
- Along with the Sr PM, define, socialize and deliver against a quarterly roadmap
- Go deep on high priority/ROI initiatives like ATS integration from market research, user discovery and scoping of requirements to delivery.
- Sprint planning, backlog grooming and prioritization, testing and delivery of features across the platform
- Establish hardened Agile processes that cascade through the organization
Who This Job is For
- A product owner or manager with 1-3 years of product management experience building SaaS products in an agile environment.
- A clear written and verbal communicator, skilled at gaining buy-in or support from cross functional stakeholders.
- Someone motivated and inspired to build against Shift’s mission.
- An end to end, tech curious thinker interested in understanding the why and looking to solve user needs beyond user/stakeholders stated desires.
- A decision maker who knows what they need to know to make a call, and is humble and curious about what they don’t.
Nice if you also have:
- Start up experience
- Marketplace/platform-as-a-service experience
- Coding experience
You'll Really Love This Job If
- You enjoy using data and research to define a solution to a problem
- You’re obsessed with building for the end user
- Shipping quality features frequently motivates you
- The opportunity to wear multiple product hats (digital, growth, data) as we grow excites you!
About Shift
Shift is a career advancement company where current and former members of the US Military discover careers, acquire and demonstrate new skills, and embark upon new job experiences at the best companies in the world. Through programing, coaching, and community we help military talent prepare for the next move in their career so that they are job and interview ready for our hiring partners on the other side. We are proud to be backed by powerful investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Structure Capital, Expa, BoxGroup, PeopleTech Partners and Tim Ferriss.
Our product is an early stage, 2-sided marketplace giving member users access to career development and job opportunities, with hiring partners looking for veteran talent on the other side.
Perks & Benefits
We offer competitive and comprehensive packages. Our benefits offering includes 401k with a match, medical, dental, and vision insurance. Employees have the option to choose from a range of PPO, HMO and Kaiser plans and receive a free One Medical membership with a location around the corner from our office. We also offer pre-tax commuter benefits, pre-tax FSA and Dependent Care FSA plans, as well as flexible PTO, and ten paid holidays. There are additional perks and benefits, which we are happy to tell you more about!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.