Product Manager

We strive to instill confidence in making sound talent decisions because that’s what both organizations and candidates deserve.

Searchlight’s Predictive Talent Platform improves hiring efficiency and post-hire retention with talent assessments and analytics. Companies like Udemy, Zapier, and Upstart reduce time-to-fill by 40% while increasing retention by 35%. Searchlight is on a people-first mission to make hiring win-win for everyone by understanding talent better.

We have a 77 NPS with customers like Coinbase, Zapier, Udemy, and Coda. We're a women-led and mission-driven company, founders are Forbes 30U30 with backgrounds from Stanford, Uber, Google, and McKinsey.

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We are looking for a teammate we can count on to:

• Empower your team by providing context, setting direction, and building alignment. Drive customer-driven decisions, clear prioritization, and efficient execution in the face of ambiguity and complexity

• Lead product positioning and storytelling to differentiate Searchlight's product offering. Prioritize and scope new features through customer conversations and competitive intelligence to strengthen Searchlight's defensibility and differentiation

• Become the go-to product expert for our engineering, design, sales, and customer success

• Be shockingly efficient and results-driven to deliver v0 and v1 features, and iterate rapidly

• Proactively improve product and engineering process, take ownership over sprints through project management and close collaboration with engineers

• Own the product roadmap, working directly with the founders
  

Relevant Experience:

• Prior startup experience is a plus, ideally in the B2B SaaS space

Success Profile:

• Creative and clear storyteller. Exceptional communicator, both verbal and written.

• Sharp at problem solving, critical thinking, and systems thinking. Knows how to use data to support intuition.

• Self-starter and fast learner.

• Deeply motivated to deliver high impact solutions to users.

• Strong project management abilities.

• Biased towards action and speed of delivery.

Key Teammates:

Anna Wang - CTO/Cofounder

Logistics:

• Our EPD team works in-person 3x-a-week in our SF office

• Significant Equity

• 401(k), Unlimited PTO, Health Insurance (100% paid premiums)

Diverse and Inclusive Employer

We’re committed to providing equal treatment and opportunity to all applicants at every stage of the hiring cycle and throughout their life at the company.We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status.

Note: Research says men tend to apply even if they only meet ~60% of the job qualifications, whereas women and other marginalized groups are hesitant to do so. If you don’t match 100% of the job qualifications but think you’d be a great fit, we encourage you to apply!