Senior Product Manager (Search & Discovery) (Hybrid)

Weedmaps • Austin, TX

80d • $153,750 - $168,100

About The Position

Product Management at Weedmaps is responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap in order to realize our mission of being the hub for all things cannabis. As a Product Manager focused on Search and Discovery, your number one goal is to ensure we have the absolute best search experience for customers. You will have a combination of best in class geo tech, AI, and ML at your disposal to maximize our ability to help customers find the products they are looking for. As our content types evolve, this Product Manager will be critical for ensuring we can surface this content in the right ways at the right times in the customer's journey. Additionally, you should have a proven ability to build relationships and influence across the organization at all levels, as well as superior communication and presentation skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 4+ years product management experience in a technological industry
• Deep data background using self service analytics tooling (mixpanel, amplitude, heap, etc)
• Experience working with ML based search models or platforms
• 2+ years experience in consumer-facing online commerce, point-of-sale, or marketplace
• 4+ years experience owning a Search Tech Stack and Platform

Nice To Haves

• Strong strategic aptitude; proven ability to define a winning business strategy and product roadmap
• Excellent customer experience intuition; demonstrated success in creating innovative and user-friendly websites and customer-facing features
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills; demonstrated success building buy-in for an innovative and bold vision
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; strong bias towards data-based decision making and comfort with pro-forma financial and operational analysis
• Implementation orientation; demonstrated ability to translate strategic differentiators into innovative and detailed product requirements
• Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members
• Proven ability to make smart feature (customer experience) versus time-to-market trade-offs; experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value
• Nimbleness and comfort with ambiguity; comfort responding quickly to rapidly evolving threats and opportunities
• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through influence versus direct management; excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience managing agile software development with scrum preferred

Responsibilities

• Define a roadmap that achieves a world-class Search and Discovery experience
• Own the Core Search Algorithms that power our search results across the B2C experience
• Translate Business Goals and Customer needs into a logically sequenced and optimized product roadmap
• Maintain and prioritize a backlog and ensure that new features and enhancements are validated and clearly specified
• Lead a cross-functional team to implement the product vision efficiently
• Monitor adoption, usage and revenue impact of new products and features and report on release impact as necessary
• Collaborate with product, program and engineering leaders across the organization to guide the platform roadmap pinpointing new requirements, features, and policies
• Oversee enterprise-level product planning including identifying new opportunities as well as incorporating a rolling roadmap of business projects and technology initiatives
• Write complete and detail-oriented product requirements documents and ensuring clear communication of those requirements to the business, design, usability and development teams
• Engage with customers through a variety of channels and serve as the voice of the customer internally
• Strive to deliver high-quality technology products/services in a very high growth environment where priorities and structures shift rapidly.

Benefits

• Physical Health benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision: Employee - employer paid premium 100%
• Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan
• For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution
• Mental Health benefits: Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents
• Employee Training
• Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)
• Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution
• FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Family planning/fertility
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• Paid parental leave
• Generous PTO and company holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees