Senior Product Manager

Lift Ventures, a remote-first startup studio whose portfolio of businesses has reached over 250 million consumers to date, is looking for a talented, data-driven Senior Product Manager / Product Lead to join our team and lead high-priority product initiatives for our fast-growing EdTech business SuperSummary (supersummary.com). SuperSummary is a subscription-based website offering a library of professionally-written study guides and other educational resources on thousands of books for students, teachers, and readers of all types.

As Senior Product Manager, you’ll be working closely with our team of designers, engineers, analysts, and our leadership team to shape and execute our the product vision for SuperSummary. You will leverage sophisticated product analytics and in-depth market/user research to both improve existing features and bring new and innovative features to market. You will also become our in-house expert on optimizing our conversion and retention funnel, while launching new experiments each month that drive user engagement and revenue growth.

Given the distributed nature of our team, this role is remote; most of our product team is currently located in Brazil and the rest of our team is distributed throughout the US and Latin America.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

This role will involve a mix of individual contributor and management responsibilities as well as close collaboration with our CEO. Given our rapid rate of growth, we expect to continue to add to our product team in the coming months and are looking for someone who can help build out and lead this team. From the beginning, your primary goal will be to oversee the following areas (with support from other team members as needed):

Research and Discovery

• Oversee product discovery and research projects in collaboration with our design and research teams

• Conceptualize user research intiatives (polls, surveys, interviews) to deeply understand user needs and answer questions surrounding product and content strategy

• Conduct competitor and market research to continuously validate market opportunities and implement improvements
  

Strategy Development and Roadmap Management

• Work with the executive team to regularly monitor, evaluate, and add to the product roadmap

• Use qualitative and quantitative data to prioritize existing projects, scope new projects, and communicate trade-offs between possible solutions

• Maintain and manage the product backlog, including our A/B testing pipeline
  

Requirements and Design

• Translate business & product strategy into detailed requirements; calculate back-of-envelope math to define key objectives and what success looks like

• Conceptualize, design, and prototype new features and products

• Drive UI/UX best practices across the organization
  

Launch, Analysis, and Optimization

• Create and manage development tickets in Jira and work directly with our engineers to guide development work and QA processes

• Define product roll-out strategy, including running A/B tests and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples

• Oversee our product analytics strategy (leveraging Google Analytics and Amplitude) to ensure we are tracking the right metrics for each feature we launch

• Track product and business KPIs (e.g., revenue growth, traffic growth, user satisfaction, etc.) and document feature performance post-launch

Preferred Qualifications

• 4-8 years of Product Management experience at high-growth companies

• Demonstrated track record of success defining, prioritizing, A/B testing, and launching excellent products to meet strategic objectives

• Excellent design sense and experience working closely with talented, user-centric designers

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to assess usage of features (leveraging tools like Amplitude, Mixpanel, and Google Analytics) and understand what drives conversion and retention

• Strong research skills, with the ability to consolidate user, market, and competitor research to drive key insights

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a precise talent for articulating customer challenges and requirements

• Experience with prototyping and wireframing tools

• Highly organized with a meticulous attention to detail

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and coordinate between teams

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

• A dedication to creative problem-solving and innovative thinking

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience with EdTech, software, subscription, and/or ecommerce companies

• Experience with content/SEO as a core customer acquisition strategy

• Knowledge of A/B testing tools and best practices

• Experience optimizing landing pages and funnels

• Prior expertise with design sprints and/or design thinking workshops

• Past experience with tools in our stack like Sprig, Hotjar, Clarity, and Airtable
  

Perks and Benefits

• Work with a distributed, global team that has been remote-first since 2018

• Competitive salary, benefits, and vacation policy

• Workspace improvement stipend

• Professional development and learning stipend