Associate Product Manager - Bay Area Based

Sideinc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Side is seeking an Associate Product Manager in San Francisco for a hybrid role. You will learn core PM skills while collaborating with UX and engineering on the Transaction & Compliance Management product. You’ll define features, validate with data, and support release planning with senior mentors.

This role emphasizes execution, customer understanding, and leveraging AI tools to drive automated, efficient solutions. Two days in the office weekly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort with AI tools to accelerate work.
• Ability to distill ambiguity into an actionable path.
• Experience working with customers and cross-functional teams.
• Growth mindset and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and groom product work with UX and engineering teams.
• Define features, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Leverage data analytics to validate feature impact.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize releases.
• Participate in planning, testing, and release communication.
• Support documentation for major releases and alpha/beta feedback.

Skills

Agile execution

AI tooling

Data analysis

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership mindset

Customer empathy

Documentation

SQL

Advanced spreadsheets

Education

B.A., B.S. or equivalent

Job description

At Side, we believe everyone should own their path.

Side partners with top-producing real estate professionals to help them own and operate their own boutique real estate companies, without the legal, regulatory, or operational complexity of running a traditional brokerage. As a pioneer in the Brokerage-as-a-Service model, Side provides a proprietary platform that increases efficiency, strengthens client relationships, and enables entrepreneurs to focus on what they do best — selling real estate and growing their businesses.

Headquartered in San Francisco and backed by more than $300 million from top-tier venture capital firms, Side is recognized as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in real estate. At Side, you'll work alongside experienced industry leaders and world-class engineers to help shape the future of real estate and empower exceptional professionals to thrive as business owners.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Product team at Side drives product vision, strategic planning, and the design, rollout, and measurement of new products and features. The team is responsible for delivering products that delight customers and impact the business, and for measuring that impact against well-defined success outcomes. We build products iteratively based on data-directed insights and user feedback, and generate insightful hypotheses about our users and their needs. We regularly collaborate with internal partners and are in a unique position of easy access to users for real time feedback due to our close partnerships with our customers & their teams. We believe that collaboration, teamwork, and communication are critical to the product development process. We strive to communicate clearly, manage expectations proactively, and exercise full transparency with our partners and teammates.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Associate Product Manager who is new or early in the Product Management career path, you will be learning and applying core Product skills. Your focus will be on execution with the UX and Engineering members on your team, under the guidance and coaching of senior Product team members, and working on defined problems and features in our Transaction & Compliance Management product. You will clearly define product work, participate in planning, test and validate completed work, and participate in release planning and communication. In partnership with adjacent teams on the platform, you will leverage both product iteration and 10x innovation to provide industry-leading automation, efficiency, and ease-of-use. You will deeply understand the customer, begin to leverage data to validate solution impact, and play a key role in driving predictable, measurable success for our customers and for Side.

This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco headquarters. To foster collaboration and maintain our fast-paced culture, we require 2 days per week in the office.

• In partnership with your UX and Engineering Lead counterparts, and with guidance from senior Product team members, driving the work of the Agile team to produce high-quality, reliable, and high-impact product iterations and releases
• Clearly defining product features, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria to empower efficient and high-quality product work, leveraging AI tools to amplify your work and impact
• Coding with AI to produce prototypes, examples, and other artifacts for clearly articulating features and requirements
• Leveraging data analytics and qualitative understanding to validate feature adoption and impact
• Collaborating with senior Product team members to prioritize the backlog of work to deliver the most impactful and strategically sequenced releases and improvements
• Participating in team Agile ceremonies to groom, plan, execute, and improve
• Working with the Go-to-Market team to document product releases for internal and external stakeholders, and providing team updates/training for major releases
• Releasing as needed to alpha/beta groups for refinement, feedback, and hardening
• Contributing skills, artifacts, and best practices for AI use in the team

• Experience working in a fast-paced, startup environment
• Comfort with distilling ambiguity into an actionable path to execute and learn
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to tailor communication style, format, and depth based on your audience
• Aptitude working with technology and collaborating with others who have varying degrees of technical skills
• Extreme comfort using AI tools and skills to accelerate your work and expand the breadth of your impact
• Ability to organize and leverage data for evaluation and decision making
• Growth Mindset: embrace challenges, persist through setbacks, focus on fearless learning, thrive on effort
• Experience working directly with customers and with interdisciplinary cross-functional teams
• Ownership mentality with strong execution capability and a track record of achieving measurable results
• High empathy, curiosity, self-awareness, and transparency in both wins and misses
• Strong work ethic with a willingness to dive deep into the details
• Bonus: experience with data analytics - SQL, advanced spreadsheet functions, business analytics tools
• B.A., B.S. or equivalent

Side is dedicated to working with the highest skilled people from the most inclusive talent pool feasible. We maintain that diversity in all aspects leads to positive change, solutions and innovation for our customers and career fulfillment for our employees. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply!

Side uses the E-Verify employment verification program.

Our stewardship of the data of many of our customers means that a background and DRE license check is required to join Side. We will, nonetheless, consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accord with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.