Sr. Product Manager

We are 8th Light, an employee-owned, remote-first software consultancy. We're driven by our deep commitment to excellence, and powered by our collective depth of knowledge and experience. Our team of experts in product, design and development all reflect our dedication to quality and our emphasis on continual learning. We value colleagues who enjoy learning and teaching, which creates our collaborative organization. We enjoy working with empathetic, passionate collaborators who value the work they do. We embrace the need for adaptability in a constantly changing world. 

As a team of specialists and generalists — thinkers and doers, we are ready to take on most any challenge that we encounter. We remain positioned to help an ever growing portfolio of client partners. If this approach to product management, design and software development resonate with you, we'd love to talk. You'll have opportunities to further your expertise as a Sr. Product Manager (Consultant), through a multitude of  project contributions and client engagements but also through working directly with senior leadership, including the Head of Product at 8th Light.

Who You Are 

You've held positions with increasing responsibilities as a Product Management steward but also as an independent contributor, allowing for your oversight and ownership of multiple software solutions shipped to production successfully. Through your experience and collaboration with teams inside and outside of engineering and the design domain you have deepened the trust and confidence others have in Product Management’s capabilities to steer a project to beneficial outcomes for business stakeholders and users alike. You describe yourself as being most inspired when you can bring others on a journey conceptually and pragmatically. In the past, you have also successfully:

• Gained 8+ years of experience in a software development environment (with SaaS or professional service offering).
• Lead and scaled 3 or more software products or platforms, shepherding them from idea to production, including: scope, feature development and release planning.
• Driven Product Management efforts for at least 5 years in a senior or lead capacity, enabling successful software products to launch.
• Collaborated in the delivery of software products with other technologists from various disciplines including Designers, Engineers, Project Managers and Product Owners.
• Gathered and distilled business requirements from technical and non technical stakeholders as well as customers.
• Held customer meetings to collect product feedback and define value for users.
• Exhibited a growth mindset to support product management teams in their ability to assess and define the business value of product lines, planning roadmaps and delivery.
• Prioritized high-impact decisions and initiatives to balance near-term results with long-term vision.
• Participated in company strategy through demonstrating a deep product and domain expertise to drive discussions and outcomes.
• Facilitated opportunities to inspire and connect dots across product lines as a strategic thinker who can ‘see big picture’.
• Demonstrated an ability to work with diverse inputs to define product vision and contribute to strategic decisions.

What You'll Do 

At 8th Light you'll nurture and support formative discussions with business leaders, technologists and customers in an effort to convert product management practices into high quality and shippable software solutions that delight. You will bring your expertise, accumulated knowledge and experience into engagements to validate objectives and support strategic alignment to customers’ desires for mutually beneficial outcomes. In addition you will: 

• Oversee the end-to-end experience for multiple products across a portfolio of engagements concurrently.
• Leverage human-centered design, lean and agile principles to deliver intuitive, engaging, high quality software.
• Optimize priorities and own the Go-to-Market plans and trade-offs for releases.
• Support innovation and the cohesion of ideas and processes that inspire creativity and new product offerings and features.
• Define requirements, communicate strategy and roadmaps with visibility to all stakeholders.
• Use data driven decision making for prioritization and decision making.
• Magnify our clients’ goals for product success and adoption through leveraging of optimal technology, sales and marketing enablement strategies.
• Maintain oversight and guidance of client engagement pricing balancing our clients’ financial targets and budget constraints.
• Further organizational aptitude and knowledge of intersectional industry domains like, Design, Security, Observability and Cloud with 8th Light.
• Facilitate observational research approaches and make tweaks accordingly based on feedback.
• Drive the setting and meeting of milestones alongside the business, design and engineering teams.
• Be an active participant in shipping product features into a production and market ready state.
• Engage with external peers, partners and other industry contacts that evolve your knowledge of trends, latest strategies and best practices.

Nice to Have

In addition to the above stated qualifications and experience, 8th Light would also like to encourage candidates with the following to consider this opportunity:

• A MBA or an advanced knowledge of interdisciplinary functions, like Finance, Marketing, Legal and Operations.
• Experience selling professional services offerings to new businesses or existing accounts of enterprise size and scale.

We truly hope to hear from you.

How You’ll be Supported

We want our people to feel supported and encouraged to embrace their most authentic selves. Our wellness package at 8th Light is centered around the Whole YOU. Offerings that include:

• Annual budget for learning & development
• L&D time allotment of 80+ hours per year
• L&D Program Including MasterClass
• Flexible Work Schedule
• A remote-first approach including a worldwide network of coworking spaces
• 12 weeks of new parent leave
• Fertility benefits
• Semi annual promotion and merit panel

See our full list of Benefits at 8thlight.com/benefits

Compensation Range for the Role: base salary range: $90,000 - $140,000 USD

Join Us –– 8th Light is Remote-First!

We recognize that creating a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization is an ongoing journey, and we’re excited to share our journey with you. We have a proud tradition of hiring talented colleagues with unusual career experiences. We're more interested in your experiences, results, and impact than brand names, degrees, or keywords that may appear on your resume.

8th Light currently recruits and supports a distributed team of employees in various states who work remotely. When opportunities allow we can also consider hiring talent eligible to work in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Canada. In this new workplace landscape, it is rare that our consulting engagements require travel for current roles. 

We are committed to supporting, onboarding, growth, and engagement of employees who choose to work remotely on a permanent basis. For team members who seek to work in-office, where local regulations allow, we can provide an experience that supports in-person social interaction and collaboration in our hub cities of Chicago, New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more about our philosophy, plans, and updates by signing up for our Talent Community!

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