About Quartz Network
At Quartz Network, we leverage technology to ignite the human connections that fuel business innovation and optimization. Our events, B2B-matching platform, and community simplify networking, B2B buying, and professional learning. We take a tech-forward, multi-medium approach to connecting our members to the people, education, and technologies that help them achieve career goals faster and deliver transformative efficiencies for their company.
The Product Manager Role
Quartz Network Product Managers are leaders that love bringing new products to life. They are self-starters and are comfortable creating plans to drive key areas of our platform forward from the earliest stages. Product Managers lead small-medium-sized teams of researchers and designers and effectively communicate strategy and progress inside the organization. Product Managers have a holistic understanding of product life cycles and a passion for managing a product from strategy through delivery.
An optimal candidate has experience infusing UX principles into their day to day activity, utilizing a deep understanding of the user to drive effective product strategy and great design. With a UX mindset, they are able to align everyone working on the product with the customer’s viewpoint, and provide an optimal user experience in ways that also serve the business.
What you’ll do
- Develop innovative, industry-leading features and products that uniquely serve our users and customers
- Continually strive to understand our customers and their needs
- Identify opportunities and scope/research them to build a perspective on what we should be building.
- Drive the strategy, tactics, and delivery timelines for your product area
- Influence key stakeholders throughout your product line and the company overall to align resources and prioritization
- Build, prioritize, and manage product roadmap in alignment with goals set by leadership
- Collaborate and drive alignment across executive, design and engineering teams
- Incorporate feedback and input from customers, users, partners and in-house teams to inform product strategy
- Work closely with UI / UX designers and a tech team lead to bring new features to life
- Write complete & detail-oriented product requirements and user flows
- Own communication around recent launches, key product and business metrics, changes to roadmap priorities, and critical escalations
- Be proactive in identifying issues that might impact the customer
- Forecast, monitor and report on overall team progress
- Develop and monitor success metrics and quantify improvements
Who you are
- Experienced: At least 3 years of experience in Product Management, and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent real-world experience
- A master of the last mile: you grind it out, do whatever is necessary to ship, and don’t lose steam after a project gets approved and underway.
- A prioritization wizard: You know how to sequence projects, balancing quick wins with platform investments
- UX-minded: you have an understanding of UX principles and how they are applicable to your team’s research, iterative testing, and success measures
- A communicator: Great at leading collaboration between UI, UX, and technical team members to generate effective solutions to complex problems
- An influencer: You can build a case that is impossible to refute or ignore in the service of creating alignment across teams and stakeholders
- Adaptable: The only constant is change, and that doesn’t scare you. You can operate flexibly in a fast-paced environment
A bonus if
- You have an understanding of technical schemas
- Have an understanding of APIs and how they currently work and/or may need to function
- You live in the Los Angeles area
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