Founding Product Manager

Savvy Talent; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A growth-stage company is looking for a Product Manager to oversee the product lifecycle and execute the product roadmap. The role requires experience in B2B SaaS or marketplaces and fluency in English. Benefits include a fully remote work environment and a competitive salary of CAD $80k-$100k annually along with performance bonuses.

Benefits

Fully remote role with emphasis on asynchronous work

2 weeks paid vacation

Annual cash performance bonus

Growth potential in role and compensation

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in a similar product management role.
• Technical background or software development experience is highly valued.
• Personal projects demonstrating relevant abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the organization and execution of the product roadmap.
• Conduct customer interviews to understand user needs.
• Create, monitor, and review experiments for product implementations.

Skills

Experience translating product changes and customer feedback

Experience as PM in B2B SaaS or Marketplace

Experience with product analytics tools

Ability to analyze data

Highly organized

English fluency

Ability to prioritize roadmap goals

Thrives in remote environment

Tools

Mixpanel

Amplitude

PostHog

Job description

We're transitioning from founder-led product management to our first product management hire so we can execute our roadmap faster. You will work daily with the founders of the company and our engineering team and be given the resources required for you to move fast and effectively.

As a founding product manager, you will manage the design/rollout of new features, product experiments, customer surveys and interviews, and be deeply engrained in the overall growth and acceleration of the product by executing on our roadmap with precision and speed.

This is the perfect role for someone that is hungry to make real impact at a growth-stage company. This is a hands-on position where you'll be responsible for the full product lifecycle and be able to impact thousands of users.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the organization and execution of our product roadmap
• Define features and create detailed specifications in the form of PRDs for the engineering team
• Manage release planning and coordination

Customer Research & Analysis

• Conduct customer interviews to deeply understand user needs and pain points
• Collect and synthesize customer feedback from multiple channels
• Analyze product usage data to identify areas for improvement
• Make data-informed decisions in a resource-constrained environment

Experimentation & Measurement

• Create, monitor, and review experiments for product implementations
• Break down large implementations into simple tests to validate ideas quickly
• Measure outcomes to determine success or failure of product changes
• Develop and track key product metrics for performance and user adoption

Requirements

• Experience translating product changes and customer feedback into technical specifications for engineering teams
• Experience as PM in B2B SaaS or Marketplace
• Experience with Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog, or similar product analytics tools
• Ability to analyze data and draw conclusions about product features and customer behaviour
• Highly organized and able to juggle multiple roadmap tasks
• Ability to prioritize roadmap goals and manage engineering resources to meet deadlines
• Speaks and writes English with fluency
• Able to work in the PST timezone
• Thrives in a remote, asynchronous environment
• 1-3 years of experience in a similar product management role

Not mandatory, but highly valued:

• Technical background or software development experience
• UI/UX design experience
• Personal projects that demonstrate your abilities pertaining to this role
• Previous experience with 2-sided marketplaces

Benefits

• Fully remote role with a strong emphasis on asynchronous work
• $80k-$100k/year (CAD $110,000 - $140,000)
• 2 weeks paid vacation
• Annual cash performance bonus based on the growth and performance of the company
• Significant growth potential in both role and compensation as we continue to scale