Senior Product Manager

We're currently in the midst of the largest wealth transfer in history — an estimated $11T of baby-boomer owned businesses are set to change hands this decade.

Mainshares backs the next generation of operators transferring into the owners’ seats. We work with them to identify business opportunities, connect them with SMB investors and help them manage their business post-acquisition.

We’re on a mission to ensure the future of America’s small business economy. We believe in its importance for creating wealth and building prospering communities.

About the Role

As the PM of the platform team, you will spearhead the development and execution of our platform strategy. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build the platform's functionality, ensuring operators succeed in their transition and ongoing operations while delivering exceptional value to investors and partners. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker and hands-on leader who can build impactful products in a fast-paced environment.

This is a complex and challenging role that will require you to deeply understand user needs, become a domain expert on SMB transactions, finance and operations, and collaborate with internal teams and early customers to build and launch a seamless experience at scale.

This role is high ownership and high impact. It requires someone who enjoys working hard and moving fast.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand the pain points and challenges for a wide range of personas including SMB operators, sellers, investors, and fractional CFO’s.

• Own key user journeys, from entrepreneurs closing on equity rounds to post-acquisition jobs-to-be-done

• Collaboratively partner with early customers, channel partners, ops, sales, marketing, and leadership to define and ship outcome-driven products

• Shape the direction of Mainshares’ platform, including product strategy, roadmap and go-to-market

• Setup and manage analytical dashboards to monitor key product metrics

• Effectively prioritize features and initiatives based on user feedback, business impact, and technical feasibility

• Partner with go-to-market team to acquire, activate and retain users on the platform

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience and 3+ years of experience in product management roles at Series A to Series C startups

• You are driven by mission and are more hardcore than most folks you’ve worked with

• Comfortable building products that are a mix of people, process, and software

• Enjoys being a generalist with an ownership mentality and does whatever it takes to achieve our goals

Nice-to-Have

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting

• Past exposure to SMB ownership

• Technical or analytical background

• Familiarity with SMB ecosystem, search funds, independent sponsors, etc

• Experience building two-sided marketplace products