Sr. Product Manager, Extension and Rewards

THE PURPOSE:

As a Senior Product Manager at Slickdeals you help 12M monthly shoppers find the best products and prices that enable them to live their best lives. In the Extension & Rewards group, you will work alongside other PM’s, designers, data scientists, and 3 development pods (one internal and 2 offshore) to help the products scale in a stable and aggressive way. You will work to understand the systems and how they relate to each other in a technical way so that you can help us build shopper facing experiences that help them win. Extension and Rewards are growing fast in a competitive market and we need someone who can help us reach our goals. 

THE ROLE:

• Care passionately about each step of each shopper’s journey.
• Work with architecture to formulate and prioritize concepts, improvements, and new features while helping to determine next steps for architecture and engineering based on agreed upon priorities
• Ability to understand detailed databases and how they interact with the overall code architecture
• Must be able to think critically about engineering steps and assist the engineering team with creating technical next steps
• Record and prioritize technical feedback from internal stakeholders (e.g. Product Operations, Accounting/Finance, Business Intelligence, other teams) and apply the feedback to the product
• Strong proficiency in understanding APIs and how they interact with overall systems
• Ability to work across multiple teams and negotiate needs with other areas of the business
• Understanding of how to pivot when necessary and which resources need to be moved around as a result
• Ability to conceive, write requirements for, launch, and analyze A/B tests to gain fast learnings
• Exude strong product sense, execution, and leadership skills. 
• Constantly evaluate how well products serve goals. Identify elements that contribute or detract. Find opportunities to better serve the goals.
• Make clear strategic decisions that promote well-defined and timely product releases.
• Communicate and get buy-in on those decisions with Product Managers, engineering teams, and other business stakeholders to ensure coordination and completion of responsible products.
• Define roadmaps, plan execution of, and deliver innovative consumer products for Slickdeals.
• Communicate product strategy across all levels of the organization.
• Understand consumer behaviors and needs through research, internal and third-party analytics, and direct interactions with users.
• Develop new products and deliver enhancements to existing products that differentiate Slickdeals from the competition.
• Work closely with Design, Engineering, Content, Marketing, and Business Development teams to manage and ultimately release new or updated product features.
• Ensure timely delivery of projects through proper planning, scheduling, leadership, and execution.
• Analyze and act on business metrics and data to grow the business.
• Be the central hub of communication and facilitate collaboration across all parts of the business related to a product.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

THE CANDIDATE:

• Ability to see signals in the noise of your quantitative and qualitative research. 
• Created products and features for millions of users following a path of research, ideation, building, measuring, learning, and iterating.  
• Experience defining strategy and creating product roadmaps for new features, and communicating those decisions to stakeholders and business owners at all levels.
• Ability to write clear and concise requirements and other documentation for initiatives both large and small.
• Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces, with an ability to create examples through wireframes.
• Familiarity with multivariate testing and analysis.
• Great process and organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to understand the technology behind products.
• Excellent verbal and written business communication skills.
• Proficiency in analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Highly self-directed and self-motivated.
• Demonstrated improvement on KPIs via product releases. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience developing e-commerce products, technologies, and platforms is strongly desired.
• Ability to quickly learn affiliate marketing processes and how they relate to overall revenue for the company
• Loyalty/Rewards programs experience
• Browser Extension experience
• Ability to execute SQL queries and modify existing SQL to run appropriate ad-hoc reports preferred
• Strong ability with Excel / Google Sheets for data summarization and analysis
• Track record defining and delivering innovative software products.
• Experience designing user interfaces and performing user research.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills with strong technical abilities.
• Understanding of project management methodologies; Agile, Lean, Scrum.
• Comfortable communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience using project delivery software and ticketing systems such as JIRA.
• Experience using insights, reporting, and analytics tools like Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Tableau, Lookback, and Hotjar.
• Mobile application development experience with scaled iOS and Android applications.
• Ability to understand technical architecture diagrams and process flows
• Experience generating and tracking critical metrics for mobile products.

Remote work is available in: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.