Product Manager

Description

Are you looking to join a growing, successful SaaS startup? Do you get excited about delivering high-value, frequently-used features to users that rely on your products to execute their jobs every day? Are you looking to help a startup achieve its next level of growth? If yes, then keep reading!

PerformYard has developed a simple and effective platform that helps drive staff performance through the roof. Our long-term vision is to change how performance is managed and measured in organizations of all sizes. To get there, we need to add to our fantastic team, and that’s where you come in!

The Product Manager will report directly to the SVP of Product and will be a crucial product team member. As a founding member of our product management team, the Product Manager will collaborate with stakeholders and our customers. This role will help refine and drive our product roadmap and define innovative new features for our SaaS employee performance management products. The product manager will work closely with our product development team, participating in our agile/scrum development process and driving grooming sessions for the product backlog and upcoming sprints and releases.

A successful candidate at PerformYard will be a strongly self-motivated and driven individual who is efficient, detail-oriented, and organized in their approach to product management. This position has growth potential as our product management team continues to grow.

Click this link to learn more about our SaaS platform: https://www.performyard.com/flexible-features

Requirements

As a crucial part of the product management team, the Product Manager will collaborate with stakeholders and our customers to help refine and drive our product roadmap and define innovative new features for our SaaS employee performance management products.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and drive PerformYard product roadmap for the PerformYard SaaS employee performance management application.
• Serve as the product owner role on one or more agile scrum product development teams, maintaining and prioritizing product requirements and working closely with our product development team.
• Work closely with our key stakeholders, customers, and partners to inform our product roadmap and evangelize the PerformYard application.
• Take a data-informed decision approach to our roadmap, design, and development processes.

What You’ll Bring:

Must Have:

• 5+ years of software product management experience with a commercial product, preferably SaaS
• Prior experience as a product manager and product owner in an agile/scrum development environment
• Previous experience with JIRA (or equivalent issue management system) for epics, stories, and backlog management.
• Startup technology company experience, preferably for a SaaS offering

Should Have:

• Business Degree or MBA, preferably with a major in Entrepreneurship or Technology Management or equivalent experience.
• Experience shepherding analytics and reporting capabilities for a product is a plus.
• Experience managing the development of extensions and integrations for a core product to other platforms, specifically Payroll, HRIS, or Messaging platforms (Slack / Teams)
• Familiarity with enterprise application authentication and authorization topics, including authentication and authorization, OAuth, SAML, LDAP, RBAC, and ACLs.

Nice to Have:

• BS in Computer Science and or prior software development experience
• Practical knowledge of querying NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB
• Previous product management experience with an HRIS or employee performance management product.
• Prior product management experience for a product’s public API offering

Benefits

In addition to your compensation plan we also have medical, dental, and vision health insurance benefits w/ HSA plan, disability insurance, 401k plan, generous PTO, paid holidays and other benefits.

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