Senior Product Manager
Remote
Product – Open Roles /
Full-Time /
Remote
What is Pathrise?
Pathrise (YC W18) connects job seekers across North America to world class industry mentorship and career coaching to help them land a new career. The program is free upfront and our customers pay us back when they’re hired.
Built around aligned incentives, we help build equity in the job search process by providing 1-on-1 mentorship, training, and a platform to uplift job seekers and ultimately, help them fulfill their hopes, ambitions, and livelihoods. We’ve already helped more than a thousand fellows land meaningful jobs, and helped them earn over $100M in salary.
In 2022 we raised our Series B and there is even more exciting growth on the horizon. That year we expanded from 6 to 14 industries, launched a tiered pricing system with differentiated product offerings, and much more.
Our Mission 🚀
Our mission is to help people everywhere build their careers by being the world’s best career agency.
We believe the job search system is broken and can be fixed with a business model that acts on behalf of the job seeker, instead of on behalf of employers, recruiters, or schools. If this sounds interesting to you, we look forward to hearing from you!
Read more about our mission in our manifesto.
The Role
It’s our team’s goal to create a clear and distinct advantage for our job seekers and we are already doing this by creating human-centered systems driven by technology (think Stitch Fix, but for mentors instead of stylists). Our platform team seeks to empower and motivate our job seekers and mentors by building useful products that they love.
As our sole Product Manager, you’ll be central to shaping the future of our platform and business. We are looking for someone excited about solving complex problems, loves working in a fast-paced environment, and can drive forward a world-class user experience. You’ll help lead the entire product development process, working closely with our leadership team to collaboratively build and maintain our product strategy and roadmap. In this role, you’ll be partnering closely with design and engineering to build and launch meaningful experiences and features for our fellows, mentors, and internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with CEO and CTO to build and execute on the vision for the platform and own the strategy and roadmap for how to make the vision a reality.
- Collaborate closely with design, engineering, and other internal stakeholders to take features from conception to launch to iteration.
- Define goals and success criteria, enabling you to leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to craft and adjust your product roadmap.
- Own and maintain the product backlog in close collaboration with design and engineering.
- Analyze the impact and performance of your team and proactively seek ways to drive even bigger results.
- Lead cross-functional user research and discovery initiatives to uncover insights and direction as well as elevate the voices of our fellows and mentors to our internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- You have 3+ years of experience as a product manager owning product strategy and roadmap for a customer-facing product.
- Proven track record of owning and shipping significant features and products with great user experiences.
- Ability to execute with a lean team in a high ambiguity environment; able to balance speed vs. quality to drive the roadmap forward while delivering great user experiences.
- Experience leveraging both quantitative and qualitative insights to develop and execute experiments.
- Experience driving organizational strategy and solution-level design thinking
- You have led research initiatives to gather qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions.
Nice to Have
- You are excited to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and are passionate about our mission of building equity in the job search.
- You have experience working in a fast-paced startup
- You have a strong background in and are excited by user research
- You have experience using or are willing to learn SQL
Benefits
- 100% remote work now and in the future!
- Unlimited PTO and flexible working hours
- Meaningful equity
- Great health, dental and vision benefits
- Twice-yearly performance bonuses
- Professional development stipends
- Bi-annual team building offsites and monthly virtual happy hours
- $115,000 - 150,000 per year, DOE and location
Frequently Asked Questions:
"What is the interview process for this role"
30 min intro call >>>> 45 min product sense interview >>>> 45 min interview with our Chief Product Officer >>>> Final interview panel conducted via Google Meet + PRD (product requirement document) exercise. This last step may be split into two separate parts.
"Do you accept applications for individuals based outside of the US?"
This role is not currently available to applicants located outside of the US without US work authorization, and is not eligible for visa sponsorship or transfer. Must be eligible to work in the US without visa sponsorship.
💡The Pathrise Approach to Hiring
At Pathrise we have a unique understanding of the hiring process from the perspective of companies and candidates, and the ups and downs that come with it. Candidates are close to our hearts - we've been them, we coach them, we know them.
Our general full-time hiring process outlined below. Note: this doesn't apply to part-time roles which consist of an intro call + a 30-45 min final interview.
Application Stage
- Our recruiting team reviews applications and responds to qualified applicants as quickly as possible.
- Our ATS does not auto-reject in any way
- Note that some part-time roles are listed in "Inactive - Resume Pool" status, meaning hiring happens on a rolling basis and may open unexpectedly.
Intro Call
- In this 30 minute phone call, we aim to align on the role and answer your questions to ensure a mutual fit
- Taking the next step in your career is a big deal! Ask whatever questions you need to ensure we're the right fit for you.
- Candidates who advance will be provided with a helpful guide to support their candidate experience.
Skill Assessment or Hiring Manager Interview
- For some roles, this is a 30 minute Google Meet interview with a hiring manager.
- For other roles, this stage is a hands-on skill assessment that gives you a firsthand glimpse of what basic skills are needed to execute in this role, and how they'll be applied. It also gives us early signals on the more technical aspects of candidate fit.
Virtual Onsite (full-time roles only)
- Candidates will meet with hiring managers and collaborators for further skill assessments and behavioral interviews.
- Because this stage can take considerable time for all candidates and interviewers (1.5 - 3 hours), we are very intentional about how we conduct it and who we move forward. We do our best to be mindful of time commitments and candidate efforts, and will communicate if things change unexpectedly.
- You'll receive guidance well in advance.
Reference Interviews (full-time roles only)
- We'll ask for some professional references to follow up with.
Pathrise is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. Pathrise does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender-identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws or prohibited by Company policy. Pathrise also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Pathrise will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
If you are instead interested in our fellowship program, please submit an intake form and our Admissions team will follow up: https://www.pathrise.com/apply.
