Intermediate Product Manager
Spare is a company focused on revolutionizing shared transportation and enhancing mobility. As an Intermediate Product Manager, you will take ownership of a product squad, driving product vision, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and analyzing market insights to create innovative product solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own Product: Take full ownership of a specific product squad, overseeing its development, strategy, and lifecycle management
- Drive Product Vision: Define and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and objectives for your designated product squad
- Collaborate Cross-functionally: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to align product development with business objectives
- Drive Market Insights and Customer Needs: Analyze data, conduct customer research, and engage with customer-facing teams and integration partners to identify market trends and customer needs
- Inform Product Solutions: Work collaboratively with your team to generate innovative product solutions, bringing your unique product vision to address customer feedback and unmet needs
- Evangelize the Product: Act as an evangelist for your product both internally and externally, creating enthusiasm and excitement for future developments
- Chart the Product Roadmap and Manage Resources: Be responsible for product roadmaps, product strategy, resource allocation, and release schedules
- Create Stakeholder Alignment: Bridge the gap between internal and external stakeholders to define product requirements and ensure alignment
Skills
- 1+ years managing technical software products from inception to launch, demonstrating a track record of success
- Proven experience working closely with enterprise customers, building relationships with key clients, and driving customer-centric product decisions
- Proven experience in shipping products with exceptional user experiences at scale
- Experience managing mobile products
- Experience taking new products from concept to market, getting your first customers, and optimizing post-launch
- The ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders across different functional areas, including growth, engineering, marketing & design
- Demonstrated capacity for thinking outside the box, potentially including entrepreneurial experience
- Ability to identify root causes of user frustration and go the extra mile to ensure product and team success
- Technical background with a strong understanding of software engineering (SWE), enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams
- Travel to the United States 15-20% of the time, with appropriate travel documents
- A degree in computer science, mathematics, a science-related field, or software engineering
- Entrepreneurial background
- Passion for or experience working in Transit/Mobility
- Hands-on experience building and scaling AI products
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