What You'll Own
- Problem framing and discovery: Translate feature requests into clear problem statements through structured conversations, research, and analysis before proposing solutions.
- Strategic product ownership: Become the product expert for assigned product areas by understanding workflows, user behavior, technical considerations, and business impact.
- Roadmap and prioritization: Build and maintain focus-area roadmaps, prioritizing work based on user value, company strategy, and measurable outcomes.
- End-to-end delivery: Work closely with Engineering and Design from concept through requirements, build, launch, and iteration.
- Stakeholder alignment: Lead productive discussions and ensure decisions are documented and aligned across teams.
- Client request intake and synthesis: Partner with Customer Success and Sales to understand incoming client requests, ask thoughtful follow-up questions, and identify patterns across feedback.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS or a similar environment.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct customer discovery and translate insights into clear product requirements.
- Strong analytical thinking and comfort using data to inform decisions.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering and Design.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing stakeholder priorities.
What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)
- You have a deep understanding of the product and product strategy.
- You are familiar with industry standards and market trends.
- You have completed discovery for 3–5 product ideas.
- You have delivered 3–5 roadmap projects from requirements through release.
- You maintain product documentation.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience launching new products.
- Experience transitioning users out of legacy products.
- Experience in higher education, curriculum / syllabus management, compentency-based learning.
Why Join PeopleGrove
- Build products with purpose: Our work helps institutions improve outcomes for students and alumni—and supports programs that train the next generation of healthcare and high-impact professionals.
- Own meaningful strategy: This role has real influence over PeopleGrove’s growth direction and where we expand next.
- Move fast, learn fast: We value experimentation, clarity, and shipping.
- Remote-first: Work from anywhere in India, with occasional travel for team offsites or customer research.
- Strong team culture: Empathy, collaboration, and user-centric thinking are core to how we operate.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS or a similar environment.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct customer discovery and translate insights into clear product requirements.
- Strong analytical thinking and comfort using data to inform decisions.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering and Design.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing stakeholder priorities.
- Experience launching new products.
- Experience transitioning users out of legacy products.
- Experience in higher education, curriculum/syllabus management, or competency-based learning.
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. Places to go. People to be.
