Lead Product Manager

The Role:

At CB Insights, we connect the tech companies building the future with the world’s leading investors and corporations. The mission of our Growth team is to build engagement and drive client retention on the platform.

As the new Product Manager for our Growth team, you’re a key player in bringing our product strategy to life. We are looking for a highly entrepreneurial Product Manager who values moving quickly. You will own our home pages, user feeds, collections, and notifications products while supercharging a formidable engineering team to quickly bring new ideas to life.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the team’s roadmap with precise, logical, and compelling rationale. 
• Serve as product owner in agile ceremonies for the development team representing our Growth mission, which focuses on engaging and retaining clients.
• Build products clients love. Set, hit, and report on goals for Growth.
• Drive continuous discovery. Work backward from end goals to validate hypotheses with weekly customer interviews, data analysis, and competitive research. 
• Work with Design to create intuitive, beautiful, useful experiences.
• Work with Engineering to explore technical possibilities, scope tightly, and ship to learn–fast, frequent, dependable.
• Gain followership with senior stakeholders and partners across the business.
• Work closely with Marketing, Solutions Consulting, and Onboarding teams to build our new product offerings.
• Work with Research Products & Operations (RPO) and the Intelligence Unit (IU) to devise and execute plans to scale our research assets. 

Key Competencies:

• Have at least 10 years of B2B product management experience
• Have experience of going through a full product life cycle, driving prioritization and pre/post-launch execution
• Have deep user empathy with tools for continuous discovery and history of being structured, hypothesis-driven
• Be known for ruthlessly prioritizing opportunities for commercial value. Be a structured, deductive, and quantitative thinker even in ambiguity.
• Be entrepreneurial and have a strong bias to execution.
• Be an effective and compelling communicator with customers and executives
• Be known for being a sought after cross-functional partner
• Have experience with agile software development 
• Have experience with Jira for ticket management, tracking, and documentation
• Have proven communication skills

Preferred Competencies:

• Experience with Productboard is preferred
• Experience with SQL or Looker is preferred

Please note this is a US-based role.

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for a bonus opportunity.

A little bit about our pay practices: Typically, we will hire at our Hiring Target, but actual starting pay may be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, market rate, the qualified pool of candidates, internal compensation, candidate experience, and budgetary constraints.

Compensation$155,000—$180,000 USD

What We’re All About

We’re on a mission to enable every organization to make smarter decisions about tech by bringing machine and human intelligence together. Whether it’s finding a new game-changing vendor or understanding a new market, it’s easier, faster and smarter with CB Insights. All made possible by the smartest, hardest-working team in tech. We:

• Build Dope Isht
• Seek the Truth
• Create Simplicity
• Dive Deep
• Own Outcomes
• Push Limits

What We Offer 

• Award-winning culture: recognized by Inc., Glassdoor, and Builtin for leadership, opportunity, and engagement 
• Industry Insight: over 700k+ people follow our tech newsletter: sign up here
• Better Benefits: Healthcare with HSA and FSA options, dental, and vision insurance along with great time off and unlimited sick day policy, plus lots of other perks
• Plan for the future: 401k with up to 4% match
• Continued Learning: $1,000 yearly continuing education stipend

Why you don’t want to work here:

• You are a tech pessimist 
• Radical Candor isn’t your style 
• You focus on outputs instead of outcomes 
• You like like to build big processes 
• You stay @ the 30,000 foot view instead of digging into the details 
• You prefer your comfort zone instead of a challenge

Equal Opportunity Employer: CB Insights is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud