Senior Data Product Manager

Position Summary:

As a Senior Data Product Engineer at Pax8, you’ll embark on a journey to revolutionize the way our partners gain sales insights and enablement. You’ll be a key player in developing the Opportunity Explorer, a cutting-edge sales enablement tool that empowers partners with situational awareness and actionable recommendations. By building innovative data products and creating dynamic visualizations, you’ll transform complex data into rich, interactive experiences that drive sales growth and elevate our partners’ strategies.

Every day, you’ll dive deep into data, crafting intuitive and powerful sales insights that help our partners unlock new opportunities. You’ll focus on building the UI for the Opportunity Explorer, collaborating with our Data Science team to incorporate user feedback and behavioral insights. You’ll create and refine product recommendation models, integrating them into our platform in a way that feels seamless and natural. Your work will involve heavy data analysis and visualization, using tools like Figma, D3.js, and custom applications that go beyond traditional tools like PowerBI or Tableau. Whether you’re exploring the effects of global trends or designing intricate visualizations, your goal will be to simplify complex data sets and deliver an immersive, interactive experience.

To thrive in this role, you must have a strong background in data product development with a focus on sales enablement and insights. Experience with building and integrating recommendation models is a plus, especially if you’ve worked with APIs to deliver tailored recommendations. You should be proficient in data analysis and visualization, with the ability to create custom, interactive experiences using advanced tools like D3.js and Processing.js. Your expertise in simplifying complex data sets and driving actionable insights will set you apart. Additionally, familiarity with CRM systems like Salesforce and the ability to apply similar concepts to our platform will be valuable. Join us in empowering our partners to increase sales and make data-driven decisions with confidence!

Essential Responsibilities and Percentage of Time Spent (includes, but is not limited to):

1. Own and drive strategy for the Data and Insights product area. This product area drives growth by generating actionable insights from first- and third-party data, through data visualization, reporting, and deployment of machine learning models that automate cross-sell, upsell, and personalized recommendations
2. Apply design and product thinking to the acquisition, organization, synthesis, and automated use of data within the organization, as well as from its partners, customers, vendors, and data aggregators/suppliers
3. Be a subject matter expert in the cloud IT space with an understanding of internal and external customers’ needs
4. Collaborate deeply with business stakeholders across the org to plan the right product improvements at the right time to meet a demonstrated market or business need
5. Communicate and develop product strategy; collaborate with Product Design and Engineering to help them deeply understand the strategy so they can effectively execute to maximize our growth, speed-to-market, and value
6. Work closely with senior Product Managers, Product Design, UX Research, and Technical Leaders to create product-centric OKRs aligned with corporate goals and define measurable outcomes
7. Create, socialize, and advocate the product roadmap
8. Track progress against OKRs and have a detailed understanding of product performance at a product area and feature level
9. Collaborate with UX Research to gather qualitative feedback and quantitative analytics to drive product decisions. Use techniques such as A/B testing, metric optimization, and funnel analysis to generate insights on multiple customer groups
10. Independently write clear agile epics and user stories to articulate new feature requirements to meet product delivery goals
11. Prioritize work streams and guide execution to maximize our growth, speed-to-market, and value. Ideate, user test, write clear stories, refine, solve problems, perform UAT, triage bugs, understand your product through data, and iterate
12. Lead agile ceremonies in collaboration with Engineering teams to ensure a shared understanding of problems and solutions
13. Effectively communicate status, progress, and outcomes to senior management to clearly articulate how current work aligns with corporate objectives
14. Manage trade-off decisions to maximize value
15. Suggest and implement work process improvements
16. Lead make/buy/acquire decision-making processes
17. Seek opportunities to provide support and advice to less experienced members of the team

Ideal Skills, Experience, and Competencies:

• At least five (5) years of experience in product management or an equivalent role
• Experience creating solutions that address user needs for data aggregation, reporting, analysis, visualization, modeling, and the underlying infrastructure needed to power data-driven experiences
• Comfort with writing SQL queries
• Experience working with Python, R, or other languages used in data science a plus
• Detailed understanding of how APIs and cloud services work, and overall SDLC
• Scrupulous about value for the business; ability to understand and focus on what’s most likely to bring ROI
• Experience with Agile/Scrum Software Development along with project management tools (Trello, Jira, Rally, or equivalent) in a technical software development environment
• Experience prioritizing product backlogs and working closely with software engineers to write and refine stories for sprint execution
• In-depth knowledge of software delivery process, analytics best practices and tools, and website design principles
• Exceptional project management and interpersonal skills with experience managing multiple work streams across a variety of stakeholders
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills with meticulous attention to detail. Excellent documentation/communication skills
• Experience managing competing resources and priorities
• Is a self-starter and able to work independently with a bias toward action, does not let perfect be the enemy of good
• Proven ability to collaborate and problem-solve with diverse people in different parts of the organization
• Comfortable with ambiguity and can adapt to rapidly changing situations. Capable of taking a high-level vision and taking it down to actionable components
• Data-driven by nature with the ability to make decisions where there is none
• Track record of defining and delivering groups of enhancements that drive outcomes
• Keen design sense and strong empathy with our customers and vendors

Required Education & Certifications:

• A./B.S. in related field or equivalent work experience

Work Environment:

Professional office environment.  Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copy machines, printers, and filing cabinets. Remote and/or hybrid work at Pax8 requires all employees to have adequate secure and private internet service.

Physical Demands:

A sedentary role that primarily involves sitting/standing

Travel Requirements:

Occasional travel to Pax8’s main office, external partners, and conventions

Compensation:

• Qualified candidates can expect a salary beginning at $130,000 or more depending on experience

   

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