Junior Product Manager

Rippling, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Stratus is hiring a Junior Product Manager to join our product team as an individual contributor, reporting to a Lead Product Manager. We build SaaS project and workflow software for MEP contractors, turning roadmaps into live demos with engineers and designers, validated through testing.

We are a distributed workforce across the US; this role is remote with potential quarterly travel. You will translate customer feedback into prioritized work and draft release notes customers actually read.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum ceremonies and processes.
• Detail-oriented with ability to own QA/UAT for own work.

Responsibilities

• Turn roadmap priorities into working demos with engineers and designers.
• Collaborate daily with engineers and designers through standups and planning.
• Test deliverables against acceptance criteria before release.
• Synthesize customer feedback into prioritization input for the Lead PM.
• Draft clear, customer-facing release notes.
• Escalate blockers and gaps to the Lead PM early.

Skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Agile/Scrum familiarity

QA/UAT ownership

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Stratus, deriving from the Latin term meaning 'layer', offers an advanced set of MEP -specific solutions that seamlessly layer across a contractor's entire workflow from design to fabrication to installation. Our team of seasoned industry experts, skilled technology leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs understands that fabrication does not occur in isolation, and increasingly, it may not happen within your own fabrication shop. Through close relationships with our customers — who include some of the most innovative and largest MEP contractors — we have developed a suite of Stratus tools to digitize, automate, and optimize piping, plumbing, sheet metal, and electrical contracting. Stratus provides the software layer an MEP contractor needs to optimize profits with true "Data-Driven Contracting".

About the Role

Stratus.build builds SaaS project and workflow software for MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) contractors. We're hiring a Junior Product Manager to join our product team as an individual contributor, reporting to a Lead Product Manager. We work demos-not-memos: you'll turn roadmap priorities into working demos with engineers and designers rather than long written specs, validate them through testing, keep prioritization grounded in real customer feedback, and help write the release notes customers actually read.

We are a distributed workforce across the US- this role is remote with potential of quarterly travel.

What You'll Do

• Turn Lead PM direction into working demos and lightweight, testable acceptance criteria with engineers and designers, favoring a live walkthrough over a long-written spec.
• Partner daily with engineers and designers through standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and demo reviews.
• Test and validate deliverables against acceptance criteria (UAT) before release sign-off.
• Collect and synthesize voice-of-customer feedback into clear prioritization input for the Lead PM.
• Draft release notes for shipped features in plain, customer-facing language, checked against what you validated in testing.
• Escalate blockers, scope gaps, and edge cases to the Lead PM early.

What We're Looking For

• 0–2 years of product management, business analysis, customer research, or related experience (internships count).
• Strong, clear written and verbal communication — you can turn a vague requirement into an unambiguous demo, and a shipped feature into a release note customers understand.
• Comfort working directly with engineers and designers; basic familiarity with Agile/Scrum ceremonies.
• Detail-oriented and comfortable owning QA/UAT for your own deliverables.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience in MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction, field operations, or construction technology.
• Prior hands-on experience with Stratus.build or a comparable construction/PPM SaaS platform.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.

E-VERIFY STATEMENT

Stratus participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

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