Senior Product Manager

Job Description

The American middle class is in crisis. The workforce is rapidly changing with old jobs disappearing and new jobs requiring new skills taking their place. Millions of people soon to enter the workforce or early in their careers are unclear on the prospects for the jobs today and uncertain of what steps to take to land roles in the jobs and careers of tomorrow. What’s worse, many people early in their careers feel stuck in roles unaligned to their goals. They need more information, guidance, access to coursework and certifications, and ways to showcase their talent to potential employers who can help them build a better life. That’s where Tallo, a Stride company, comes in.  That's where you come in.  

Tallo is passionate about helping early talent explore and match with high-quality jobs and complete the training they need to succeed. We focus on talent with skill or credential gaps because they offer the greatest untapped opportunity to employers and our society. Today, we engage with more than 1.6 million young people, state agencies, and dozens of organizations to make matches that change lives. We're committed to serving many more people in the next few years as we grow. The marketplace doesn't lack opportunity, and it doesn't lack talent.  It lacks a way to connect the two.  Come join us.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, customer-focused Senior Product Manager of Talent. This individual will drive strategies to help Tallo become the premier marketplace for early talent to find and explore new careers, training, certification and employment opportunities. This role will partner closely with senior leadership and a cross-functional team of software engineers, designers, researchers, and business development personnel.

This person will build new products from zero-to-one as well as manage current features and services throughout their life cycle. To be successful, this individual will need a combination of business savvy, product management, and technical acumen. This person will also thrive in a fast-paced development environments and leverage their experience in building digital content and commerce experiences across desktop and mobile platforms.

Responsibilities

• Create and articulate a compelling vision, strategy, and roadmap to help early career talent discover their interests, develop a plan and take steps toward developing compelling career paths. 
• Win alignment and support from cross-functional team members and senior leadership for your vision and roadmap.
• Draft and drive requirements and design for new features.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product marketing, and product design to build, release, and take new features and products to market.
• Define objectives, metrics, and desired outcomes to guide, prioritize, and measure the success of product investments.
• Support competitive analysis and participate in make vs. buy decisions for 3rd party software integrations, commerce, and content partnerships.
• Contribute to the development of monetization plans, strategies, and financial projections.
• Clearly communicate product benefits to users and internal and external stakeholders.
• Champion customer and user needs and product value propositions to stakeholders.

Basic qualifications

• Ten years of experience as a product manager building consumer applications and or enterprise platforms 
• Experience in a technical or business product management role within a consumer, technology, or consulting company.

Preferred qualifications

• Exceptional ability to lead cross-functional teams. Experience working with a set of highly skilled engineers, researchers, designers, and data scientists.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to synthesize and simplify complex technical subjects for technical, non-technical, partner and executive audiences.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Strong analytical skills and ability to execute complex product launches.
• Curiosity and a strong understanding of trends in consumer web and mobile application usage.
• Experience with social media.
• Passion for building data-driven products and experiences that leverage ML to increase user satisfaction and business impact.
• Experience developing objectives for actionable consumer, market and user research initiatives.
• Experience developing and monitoring KPIs and building products with monthly active user engagement and growth goals.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.