Senior Product Manager

Screencastify • Chicago, IL

25d • Hybrid

About The Position

Castify is seeking an entrepreneurial and action-oriented Senior Product Manager to join their team and help continue their path to growth. This role will own the end-to-end outcomes of new features, bridging the gap between user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals. The Senior Product Manager will solve meaningful problems for users by building intuitive and high-impact experiences. This individual will come to the table with a point of view, recommending strategy and roadmap, owning goals, and driving development end-to-end. They will act as the connective tissue between Engineering, Design, Data, and Customer Success to deeply understand user pain points, define requirements, and ensure the right things are being built for the right people. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who takes ownership of goals, recommends strategy and roadmap, owns big bets, envisions market trends, thrives in ambiguity, can translate complex user feedback into actionable product requirements, drives multiple projects, is a natural problem solver, and balances intuition with data. The work will have a real, immediate, and visible impact on how people work every day. This role offers the opportunity to have a massive impact as part of a small Product team, owning many product initiatives and being instrumental in the design of features and products seen and used by millions. The role is focused on working for the users, being an advocate for them, and getting to know their voices and stories. The company is bootstrapped, profitable, and supports tens of millions of users, offering a large green field for growth and shaping the future of the company.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in product management, specifically with SaaS products, demonstrating a track record of delivering impactful solutions.
• Experience working at a startup with fewer than 200 people and understanding the pace, scrappiness, and ownership mentality that comes with it.
• Proven ability to own goals end-to-end, from recommending the strategy and roadmap to driving execution and measurable outcomes.
• Strong market thinker who understands competitive dynamics and uses that knowledge to shape product direction.
• Comfortable using AI to build products from 0 to 1, with a deep hands-on approach.
• Proactive problem solver and decisive decision-maker who moves with urgency, weighs trade-offs quickly and holds themselves and others accountable.
• Endlessly curious and data-driven, investigating customer behavior and using analytics to inform product decisions.
• Strong communicator with experience working cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Own specific product goals, recommending the strategy and roadmap to achieve them, and driving the team to deliver results.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to inform strategy and identify opportunities.
• Gather insights about customer needs through partnership with Customer Success, qualitative user research, and data analysis.
• Identify minimum lovable product requirements that prove user traction while minimizing development scope.
• Collaborate closely with Design to iterate towards the simplest experiences that deliver on functionality.
• Translate high-level strategies into detailed PRDs and user stories.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Engineering to clarify requirements, resolve blockers, and manage trade-offs during the development cycle.
• Leverage AI to enhance the user experience and streamline our internal product development lifecycle.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• 401(k) & Annual Performance Bonus Opportunity
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• Generous paid time off for parents to bond with the newest addition to their family!
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Free One Medical membership
• Annual Divvy membership (for Chicago-based employees)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed