Product Manager, Talent

About the role:

Our mission is to connect data talent with hiring companies. Our team is responsible for building two brand new products launching in 2022 - DataCamp Jobs and Recruit. We're building a two-way marketplace that helps data professionals land their dream job and hiring managers access one of the largest sources of data talent, where they can efficiently find and filter professionals with the exact set of skills, experience, and background they need to hire.

As a member of the Talent team, you will be out in the field, talking to users, synthesizing data, and making decisions from a feature perspective. In this role, you will work cross-functionally with engineers and UX designers to guide products from concept to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds.  

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 60% tactical
• Build features and deliver them.
• Delight our users and ensure that we are constantly improving the product experience.
• Break down work with engineers and designers.
• Crunch the data to determine what to do next.
• Gain in-depth knowledge of customer needs and challenges by conducting user interviews.
• 15% strategic
• Develop a thorough understanding of business objectives, then determine how to leverage design and technology to achieve those objectives on a quarterly basis.
• 25% operational
• Connect strategic to tactical work by creating a roadmap that connects the current state of the products to the future state and aligns teams around the work.
• Provide the context for the team to make reasonably good decisions quickly enough.

WHO YOU ARE:

• You have 2+ years of experience in a similar role
• You fall in love with the problems, not the solutions
• You always put the team first
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are comfortable rolling up your sleeves, thriving on ambiguity, and getting the job done
• You have strong attention to detail
• You are user and data driven. You constantly seek to refine your instincts through user feedback and data insights
• Nice to have:
  • Experience working on a two-sided market
  • A genuine excitement for solving job seekers' and hiring managers' problems