Role: Senior Product Manager to support Engineering (Development), Product, Sales, and Client Success teams.
You will play a vital role in ensuring clients are wowed by our product’s experience.
Key responsibilities include: product feature identification, backlog management, prospect and customer-facing support for new products and features, platform technical support and troubleshooting, product evaluation and testing, and system configuration activities.
You’ll report to Kira’s head of product and work collaboratively with virtually every department in the company.
Your key responsibility will be to support our sales, client success, and software development teams as the voice of the customer.
You will coordinate, collect, and provide client-centric feedback on all products, solve problems, assist the development team to identify and stamp out issues, and test solutions and new product features.
You will be responsible for ensuring projects, systems, processes, and technology initiatives stay organized and on track.
Ideal candidate will have client-facing interactions, web-based technologies (webhooks, API’s etc), excellent project management skills, strong technical troubleshooting skills, and working knowledge of the software development life cycle.
If you are an experienced product manager, love working with clients, have a good understanding of technology, are excited about creating award-winning SaaS products, thrive in a close-knit and energetic environment, AND you’re ready to help make higher education admissions fair, please apply!
Requirements
5+ years of experience in a customer-facing product role with web-based applications, including ideation, development, testing, deployment, and go-to-market activities for new features.
Prior experience working with SaaS development teams.
Strong organizational skills in process management - must be adept at managing multiple projects and balancing deadlines.
Exacting attention to detail and a passion for perfection.
Strong client-facing skills.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Excellent at creating and delivering compelling and clear presentations for training internal teams and external clients.
Experience using and managing technology and development services, tools, environments, and systems (ex., Salesforce, Jira, Github, Trello, Figma, etc.).