Sr. Product Manager (Growth) US only- Remote
Sr. Product Manager (Growth) US only- Remote
Comp Range: $150K- $200K DOE
No Visa/Sponsorship/Relo
Our Client is revolutionizing science communication as the Adobe or Canva for science, empowering scientists globally. Backed by YCombinator, we're a passionate team of scientists, engineers, and designers solving big problems with a high-impact product our users love
We are seeking a Senior Product Manager, Growth to drive the expansion and engagement of our user base. You will be responsible for identifying growth opportunities, developing strategies, and executing initiatives to accelerate user acquisition, activation, and retention. This role requires a strong analytical mindset, a deep understanding of product-led growth, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
As our Senior Product Manager, Growth, you will lead exciting initiatives in an opportunity space that is still very much zero-to-one. Our product-led freemium business model is an ideal fit for a Growth concentration (low friction, high user volume, word-of-mouth-friendly) and you’ll get to spearhead some of our highest ROI initiatives in this role.
What You'll Be Doing
Within the first 30-90 days you’ll dive in and really understand:
The user: Learn everything you can about our users. Do 10+ user calls. Attend 5+ sales demos. Shadow CX. Create a metabase dashboard you’re interested in tracking. Understand different user personas. Create a prioritized list of the biggest pain points in your core area of the journey.
Our self service funnel: Get to know the data to understand the volume, mix, and quality of our inbound funnel. Begin to opportunity spot areas for future investment and further exploration.
The early product journey: Learn the ins and outs of what critical areas of the product are most commonly utilized in a new user’s workflow. What our hypotheses are for user Activation and ‘Aha’ moments, and where we need to validate further.
Understand what the user journey looks like in adopting our product for various Science Communication use cases and assess opportunities for growth projects that drive lift in Adoption and Habit formation
Learn about our UGC ecosystem–understand what we’ve kicked off so far, and where you feel there are opportunities to expand it strategically
User growth via freemium channel: Assess our freemium channel for new user growth opportunities. Understand our current state of new user growth loops (there aren't many) and where there are opportunities to create new ones.
Begin to PM your first growth project or experiment. We’ll set you up with your first project to manage so you can begin learning and making an impact in the wild.
The team: Get to know everyone on the Growth EPD team and what their strengths and areas of expertise are. You should intuitively know who would be a good fit to implement which project.
The company: Internalize the company objectives, long term business goals, how teams fit together
The codebase / systems and lack of: What tools do we have / what tools are missing? What are current areas of technical debt?
At this point you should know how to get all the information to make good PM decisions
Stand up your first growth roadmap for the upcoming quarter at the end of 90-day mark
Collaborate and manage dependencies with key partners across the business to deliver on the first few milestones in the Growth roadmap
What We Value
3+ years of product management experience, ideally at a fast-growing SaaS startup
Proven track record of delivering web/product changes that have significant business impact (have a direct impact on product usage, revenue and/or top of the funnel user acquisition)
Successful track record of owning a significant part of a user-facing product and delivering features that customers need, preferably on a web-based product
Prior experience working as a growth PM is preferred
Science background is a plus but not required!