Senior Platform Product Manager
At Sprout Social, our business is our product. Our software is used by 30,000+ organizations to create stronger relationships with their customers and build the world’s most beloved brands. We have a relentless focus on solving hard problems for our customers, and our people and our culture are our competitive advantage. This approach has earned Sprout awards both for our software (G2) and our culture (Glassdoor).
As a Senior Product Manager for our Global product team, you’ll be in a unique role to define and drive product vision and strategy for both our internal teams and our customers. Your team owns the utilities and frameworks that bring consistency to user experiences and engineering approaches across the platform. You’ll also be thinking about how to execute your work in coordination across multiple product teams. This includes regularly sharing your team’s plans, work-in-progress, and results with other product teams and any other internal stakeholders vital to your team’s success.
Since our Product Managers are highly collaborative, we’re looking for someone with proven experience shipping real work into the world, in collaboration with a team of engineers and designers. You should also have experience evangelizing product plans, executing product roadmaps, and creating plans to meet milestones and goals. This is a great opportunity to take your past experiences with product strategy, project management, and cross-functional collaboration, and blend them into a high-impact role for an award-winning product.
As a product-led company, it’s critical that we have the best Product Managers on our team. This position would live within our Global product area. If you’re an experienced Product Manager, we’d love to talk with you!
Qualifications
These are the minimum qualifications that our hiring team is looking for in this role:
- 4+ years of Platform Product Management experience.
- Experience building and launching platform products, developer platforms, or microservices.
- Experience driving product, strategy, and technical discussions.
Additionally, these are the preferred qualifications that would indicate a particularly strong candidate:
- Experience establishing a platform product strategy. Including capabilities, components, and APIs that would be used by multiple applications and customer-facing features.
- Demonstrated cross-functional experience influencing other product leaders at every level.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and effectively simplify and communicate them to a non-technical audience.
Within 1 month you will…
- Complete Sprout’s New Hire training program alongside other new Sprout team members. You’ll gain a broader understanding of our product and how your role fits into the organization.
- Partner with the Director of Product to set initial priorities and align on expectations for your role.
- Start building relationships with engineers and designers in your product team (we call them “squads”) as well as across the broader Product Management team.
- Try using the Sprout product yourself—to see it the way a customer does.
Within 3 months you will…
- Lead day-to-day product execution for your team delivering value to customers every 2 weeks. You’ll identify project goals, write user stories, and organize releases.
- Understand the engineering behind the Sprout product well enough that you can predict some product trade-offs and ask your team productive questions.
- Establish credibility and trust across your team and key internal partners to be able to become an effective coach and advocate.
- Collaborate with other product managers for cross-team problem solving and feature delivery.
Within 6 months you will…
- Begin analyzing our qualitative and quantitative research to start forming hypotheses about how our product can better fit our customers’ lives.
- Facilitate quarterly roadmap planning for your team and represent the plan to the rest of Sprout’s product teams, including executive leadership.
- See a high impact project through from start-to-finish. You’ll assume ownership for results of your team’s product releases and how you learn from them.
- Identify key opportunities for improvement within your team and the overall Global PM team.
- Start developing a deep understanding of data. Begin efficiently accessing and analyzing the data needed using Redshift, SQL, Tableau, and other similar analytics tools.
- Start establishing platform product strategy. Including capabilities, components, and APIs that would be used by multiple applications and customer-facing features.
Within 12 months you will...
- Begin owning your squad’s performance against KPIs
- Follow technical trends in the industry. Make recommendations on which new technologies to invest in or leverage.
- Own the platform and drive the technology roadmap to build scalable, maintainable, and reliable platforms.
- Be ready to take on new challenges to help your team and the broader PM organization -- including things we maybe haven’t even anticipated yet!
Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.
Our Benefits Program
We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:
- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
- Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
- Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
- Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
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