Product Manager - MakeMusic

Peaksware•Louisville, CO

15h•$80,317 - $133,861•Hybrid

About The Position

Help Shape the Future of Music Creation and Education at MakeMusic. At MakeMusic, we believe music has the power to inspire, connect, and transform lives. For over three decades, we’ve been at the forefront of music technology, building tools that help musicians compose, teach, learn, and perform. Our products are trusted by Grammy-winning composers, world-class educators, and students in classrooms and homes around the globe. With MakeMusic Cloud, we’ve reimagined music practice for the digital age by offering students real-time feedback, access to an extensive repertoire library, and seamless tools for educators to track progress and personalize instruction. If you’re passionate about music, driven by innovation, and eager to create tools that empower musicians and educators around the world, then MakeMusic is the stage you’ve been looking for! We would love to have you join our ever-growing team! All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical disability, religion, or length of time spent unemployed.

Requirements

3+ years of Product Management experience with a proven record of prioritizing and successfully launching impactful products or platforms.
Ability to inspire, motivate, and lead a cross-functional team; building strong relationships is critical to success.
Comfortable applying a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to define success.
Insatiable curiosity to learn new domains, keep up with industry innovation, and constantly ask ‘why’.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; timely communication with clear expectations.
Direct experience in teaching and learning music to evaluate feature requests, validate workflows in the classroom, and ensure the product serves real-world teaching and learning needs.
Organizational and leadership experience.
Great people skills with the ability to motivate teams through vision and communication.
Experience at the strategic level, owning roadmaps with successful execution.
Degrees are not required and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associates degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching and more.

Nice To Haves

Experience in one or more of the following: B2B, ed tech, SaaS Subscription Management
Knowledge of multiple functional areas such as Product Management, Engineering, UX/UI, Sales, Customer Support, Finance, Legal, or Marketing.
Experience in the music technology space
Familiarity with data tools (analytics platforms, SQL, or similar) for self-serve product insights.

Responsibilities

Work closely with the product dev team from discovery through delivery.
Share roadmap and product vision among engineering and support teams.
Collaborate cross functionally to survey, test, and perform analysis to inform feature development.
Utilize business acumen, with proficiency in identifying, tracking and acting upon metrics, in collaboration with stakeholders in your area of expertise.
Expertly facilitate the exchange of ideas between cross-functional teams and bring unbiased input to help problem solve to gain buy-in with stakeholders and bring impactful projects to the roadmap.
Advocate for new projects that could increase our value proposition or market reach, and provide unbiased supporting arguments for consideration among peers and leadership.
Have a clear picture of the extended competition, know the dynamics and identify the new entrants. Know the differentiation at a strategy level.
Understand the core customers and market and how the application addresses differing needs; use this understanding to define a clear growth strategy.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance
Health savings and flexible spending accounts
Paid parental leave
Employee assistance program
Accident & Critical Illness insurance
Hospital Indemnity
Short Term Disability
Long Term Disability
Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
Employee-paid Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and/or Child
401(K) including a company match
12 paid holidays annually
Discretionary Flexible Time Off
Free access to our products
Corporate discounts
Professional development resources
Access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our on-site fitness facility
Employee only access to on-site locker rooms and showers
Employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage and access to e-bikes exclusively to Peaksware employees
Access to our onsite Music and Podcast Studio