There is an Online Job Vacancy At Ladder. The company, Ladder, is looking to employ an Associate Product Manager.
You will be expected to:
- Be an expert on the product, market, and competitive landscape. This includes deep understanding of the technical aspects of each product and the underlying data used.
- Intricately understand the customer journey, identify product gaps and develop product strategies and ideas to fill said gaps and optimize user experience
- Own the product roadmap and delivery of releases, coordinating feedback loops with stakeholders at all stages of the delivery cycle through regular demos, updates, and meetings
- Solicit ideas and feedback, gather requirements, write product specs and workflows, and coordinate cross-functionally
- Own the end-to-end stream of product execution including scoping & estimations, planning releases, developing user journeys and wireframes, outlining design and engineering deliverables
- Create and manage a feature backlog and drive roadmap planning with cross-vertical product teams
- Draft one-pagers and detailed requirements documents, drawing on customer journeys, user flow maps, and system architecture design
- Write amazingly clear, inspirational, context-rich and actionable user stories that get passionate engineers excited to write code
- Manage the product backlog and prioritize your user stories into Agile sprints
- Implement and manage scalable, adaptable product management processes to allow teams to move and iterate quickly
- Collaborate closely with all teams to maintain our product-centric ethos, providing product perspective, support and resources to develop how-to’s, resolve customer issues, collect and prioritize support tickets and feature requests, and implement feature roll-outs and product-led growth initiatives on time and at a high standard
- Promote a highly collaborative, user-obsessed, data-driven culture that challenges norms with bias to action and speed; supports diversity of thoughts, experiences, and approaches to solve issues
About you:
- Familiarity with JIRA or other software project management tools
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts and communicate with precision, concision, and clarity
- Extremely organized and are able to effectively manage competing priorities
- Almost obsessively detail-oriented, equally biased for speed & quality
- Ability to visualize, illustrate and clearly communicate data flows and supporting processes
- Confident competence with qualitative & quantitative data; you are hungry for trends and insights, and comfortable telling stories and forming hypotheses with data
- Previous experience working with cross-functional product development teams and managing engineering deliverables
- You have a hacker’s mindset, with a get-sh*t-done mentality
- You are a resourceful optimizer that is always looking for the best way to do things
- You are a restless innovator, who is smart, passionate and kind
Nice-to-haves
- 2+ years solid experience in a product manager, product owner, or business analyst role at a product-led fintech organization
- Proven experience overseeing all elements of the product development lifecycle
- Completed some coursework in computer science or gone to a coding program
- Deep interest in tech-enabled solutions, personal finance and blockchain solutions
