Product Manager (Contracting/Action Processing)

impact.com; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

impact.com is seeking a technical Product Manager in Santa Barbara for the Action Processing and Contracting Squad. You will own feature development end-to-end, define success with metrics, and be accountable for shipped results—beyond ticketing.

You have experience building with AI tooling, write clear requirements, and partner with engineering to balance tradeoffs. You will lead specs, prioritize within your scope, and drive delivery speed and quality.

Qualifications

• Own feature sets end-to-end and define what success looks like.
• Write high-quality customer and business requirements to reduce rework.
• Lead pre-spec and spec reviews and drive release prioritization.
• Partner with Engineering to surface risks and tradeoffs early.
• Adopt AI tooling and ship artifacts ( specs, prototypes, analyses, internal tools ).

Responsibilities

• Own feature development for AP and Contracting Squad initiatives.
• Define success upfront with metrics/OKRs and ensure adoption and impact.
• Write and version Markdown requirements adjacent to the GitHub repo.
• Lead spec reviews and guide release prioritization with eng context.
• Collaborate with engineering to surface risks and optimize tradeoffs.

Skills

Technical PM

AI experience

Requirements writing

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

GitHub

Confluence

Markdown

Job description

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral) unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands rely on impact.com to power millions of partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

About impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral) unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands rely on impact.com to power millions of partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com

We’re hiring a technical Product Manager for the Action Processing (AP) and Contracting Squad — one of impact.com’s most foundational domains: how brands and partners define terms, commissions, lists, and contract workflows that power revenue on the platform.

This is a step up from associate-level execution. Ownership and delivery of value / outcomes are the core of this role: you own feature sets end-to-end, define what success looks like, and are accountable for shipped results — not only clear tickets and on-time delivery.

You have already made the shift to building with AI: you use agents and modern AI tooling to ship real artifacts (specs, prototypes, analyses, internal tools, personal projects). You’ll bring that operating system into a systems-heavy product domain and raise the quality and speed of requirements, tradeoffs, and delivery.

You’ll partner with a Senior Product Manager and Engineering with meaningful independence: you lead specs, own prioritization within your scope, and bring recommendations — not only options to elevate.

What You’ll Do

Ownership, outcomes & delivery

• Own feature development for Action Processing (AP) and Contracting Squad initiatives (e.g. terms/commission behaviors, list and audience rules, contract workflows, and customer-driven requests).
• Define success up front (metrics / OKRs), ship, and follow through on outcomes — adoption, quality, rework reduction, or business impact — not just output.
• Write high-quality customer and business requirements that reduce rework and protect engineering focus.
• Develop Markdown requirements that live adjacent to the GitHub repo (versioned next to eng context, not only in Confluence/docs silos); lead pre-spec and spec reviews and drive release prioritization. Optimize for short time from ask → usable draft → eng-ready.
• Partner with Engineering through build: surface risks early; make crisp tradeoffs under incomplete information and own the recommendation