The Role
Drive product enhancements and feature development for a SaaS product aimed at higher education, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure user satisfaction and strategic alignment.
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About PeopleGrove
We are a rapidly growing SaaS company focused on delivering complex workflow tools to the higher education sector, including solutions for alumni relations management and clinical experiential learning. Our mission is to empower educational institutions with technology that streamlines workflows, fosters meaningful alumni engagement, and supports the growth of clinical programs. Our approach to product discovery, UX, and feature development is heavily influenced by the principles described in Inspired by Marty Cagan, emphasizing cross-functional collaboration and continuous validation. We operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with product teams based in the United States and India.
Position Overview
In this role, you’ll be driving impactful platform enhancements and creative new feature development. You’ll leverage your bias toward action; knowledge of the data, our market, and our unique users; and passion for creating best-in-class products to break down complex problems into steps that create product improvements at a rapid speed.
You will build the product roadmap and launch meaningful new features for your product area while working closely with product and company leadership. You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to build a product that our users love. Because this role encompasses owning product development from concept to launch, you must also be willing to roll up your sleeves and take on the day-to-day project management required to deliver on your vision.
We are looking for a strategic, thoughtful product manager to guide the product as you help determine PeopleGrove’s future direction.
Key Responsibilities
- Become an expert on our clients and end users, conducting quantitative and qualitative research to synthesize product requirements that enhance user satisfaction.
- Define, track, and analyze metrics that inform the success of our product, including KPIs and A/B tests.
- Maintain product and market knowledge to determine PeopleGrove’s strategic and competitive position and identify opportunities to incorporate new product features on an ongoing basis
- Develop and lead the product vision and strategy for your product area.
- Collaborate with a variety of teams to identify and prioritize ways in which the product can support our internal processes, buyers, and end users in more efficient and effective ways.
- Work hands-on with design and engineering to bring product ideas to life, from concept to launch. You’ll ruthlessly prioritize features based on impact and ROI.
- Understand the jobs to be done for the platform, synthesize those needs to shape the product roadmap for a suite of platform products, and define key metrics.
- Strategically assess new opportunities and develop alignment around these
- Collaborate and build executive alignment for your vision.
Qualifications & Experience
- 6+ years of product management experience — including working with a software engineering team to build products from concept to launch.
- Demonstrable ability to prioritize amongst competing opportunities, balancing customer needs with business priorities and the ability to articulate the rationale behind those decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to use metrics and testing to develop hypotheses and evaluate product opportunities.
- Expertise using analytics, user research and structured thinking to drive decisions and improve products (e.g. customer interviews, surveys, A/B testing, usability testing).
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills as well as passion for serving user needs.
- Steller organizational skills - you don’t let things get dropped!
- The ability to balance many projects simultaneously and ruthlessly prioritize time and energy.
- Experience working closely with design teams to deliver delightful user experiences.
- Ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
- A strong motivation to make a positive impact on the world and help alumni and students find their next step in life
- Bonus - data analysis, including SQL skills.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with changing expectations and responsibilities
- Comfortable with a largely remote team
- People that have worked with you will attest to the above
Why Join PeopleGrove?
Impactful Work: Shape the UX of products used by Higher Education Institutions across the United States helping them train the next generation of high impact graduates in fields like Nursing, Allied Health, Engineering, and Social work.
Growth Opportunities: Lead a multi-regional design team, defining best practices for UX research and discovery while mentoring others in research methodologies.
Remote Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the US, with periodic travel as needed for team offsites or user research sessions.
Innovative Environment: Join a company committed to product excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Collaborative Culture: Work alongside passionate professionals who value empathy, innovation, and user-centric design.
Top Skills
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The Company
What We Do
As higher education’s first Career Access Platform™, PeopleGrove is a smart career network that recommends Mentorship, Networking, Career Exploration, and the Job Connections that together effectively build the social capital learners need to succeed.
Unlike other student success tools and alumni engagement software, PeopleGrove is lifelong career support that’s smart, personal, and helpful even to those without a network, experience, or clear starting point.
Established in 2015, PeopleGrove set out to build the most helpful network ever created because we believe career fulfillment is a right every single person should have. To date, we've helped millions of learners on their career journeys:
- 1+ million connections
- 96% retention rate
- 20+ million users
- 60% of US News Top 100 Universities
- 5/5 average rating from user interactions
- 450+ customers served
PeopleGrove is proudly part of The Riverside Company portfolio of companies. With their partnership, we are a transformational organization that prides itself on building an environment where curiosity is rewarded and the unknown is embraced.
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