Product Manager

About Apptegy

Since 2015, Apptegy has grown from a small group of individuals working with a handful of Arkansas schools to a thriving community empowering thousands of schools and school districts across the United States. We build innovative products that simplify the demanding roles of school leaders, enabling them to brand, market, and strengthen their school’s identity, effortlessly. To achieve this, we are looking for talented individuals to shape and contribute to the success of our thoughtful and high-performing team.

We value thoughtfulness and high performance in everyone. That’s how we’ve grown quickly and won (and kept) thousands of school districts across the U.S. Our team is fast-growing and you’ll have the tools, the mentors, and the resources you need to be successful. We ask you to be someone who is internally motivated to do your best work and that you care about others. Apptegy’s Product Manager position is your opportunity to join a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.

Why You’ll Love This Job

As a Product Manager, you will join a combined product, design, and engineering team collaborating on the future of EdTech. You will be assigned a product focus area where you will have ownership and autonomy to craft a roadmap, develop and ship new functionality, and constantly engage with clients and stakeholders to shape the future of our products.

What You’ll Do

Product Strategy & Roadmap:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy that aligns with company goals for your product focus area.
• Create and maintain a product roadmap that prioritizes features and enhancements based on market research, customer feedback, and business objectives.
• Identify and define key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and guide decision-making.

Market Research & Analysis:

• Conduct market research to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape.
• Analyze data and insights to inform product development and positioning.
• Continuously monitor industry trends and adapt strategies to ensure market leadership.

Product Development & Launch:

• Lead cross-functional teams in the development and launch of new products and features.
• Define clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with engineering and design teams to ensure timely and high-quality product delivery.
• Oversee the product lifecycle from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with the overall product strategy.

Stakeholder Management:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders regarding product updates, strategy, and performance for your product focus area.
• Work closely with sales, marketing, and customer support teams to ensure successful product adoption and customer satisfaction.

Customer Focus:

• Engage with customers and gather feedback to continuously improve the product experience.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer pain points and translate them into actionable product features.
• Advocate for the customer in all product decisions and ensure that customer needs are at the forefront of product development.

Who You Are

• 2-4 years of experience in a Product Manager position.
• Ability to work in a startup or fast-paced and agile development environment (Jira or similar issue-tracking software is a plus).
• A proven record of executing and delivering products/features for both web and mobile from conception to launch collaboratively with engineering and designers is a must (technical knowledge is a plus).
• Ability to design and pivot product strategy based on market trends, client data, technical trade-offs, and company goals.
• Ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans.
• Strong analytical and communication skills: Ability to interpret large amounts of data and drive product success (knowing SQL is a plus).
• Customer-centric mindset with a focus on understanding and meeting the needs of our users, with the ability to translate user feedback into actionable insights.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and leading engineers, designers, and products to successful outcomes.
• Ability to build strong, trusting relationships across multiple stakeholders while navigating the added complexity of working with multiple offices in different countries.
• Experience working with B2B products/industries, having direct contact with business customers, understanding their needs, and pain points, and aligning an action plan with them (experience in the EdTech ecosystem is a plus).
• Passionately curious, willing to learn and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
• You are a steward of thoughtfulness and high-performance values.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that you’ve had (and one that sets you up for future success). We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience that’s why we provide:

--Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage

--Retirement 401(k) with employer match

--Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

--Mental Health Reimbursement

--Unlimited paid time off including seasonal (December) company-wide time off

--Paid parental and medical leave

We value thoughtfulness and high performance in all candidates as we progress through the interview stages. If the challenge of building a rapidly growing company excites you as much as it does us, we hope you’ll consider joining us.

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Apptegy is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.