Product at Pax8:

Pax8’s product team leads the industry in defining what the global cloud product marketplace will be. We achieve this through collaboration, focus on business value, and pragmatic execution.

To ensure that what we’re building is easy-to-use, engaging, and sustainably monetizable, we’re passionate about collaboration across Pax8 and with our managed service provider (MSP) partners. We clear barriers by compulsively assessing cost-benefit to ensure that highest priority products can be brought to market quickly, ensuring that we’re leading the field in cloud-based SaaS distribution, and solving both user and business problems pragmatically through short incubation and frequent iteration. We build innovative products that demonstrably drive partner and customer acquisition, conversion, and retention, and bring our users clear, top-tier benefits.

Position Summary:

As the Senior Product Manager – Data at Pax8, you’ll embark on an exciting journey to shape the future of data-driven decision-making for our partners. You’ll craft the vision and strategy for innovative data products that empower our customers to maximize their business potential. Your mission is to turn raw data into actionable insights through captivating and interactive visualizations. By collaborating with engineers, UX designers, and data scientists, you’ll help shape the Opportunity Explorer tool, enabling our partners to gain a deeper understanding of their sales performance and capture untapped opportunities in the marketplace.

Every day, you’ll dive into the heart of data product management, working closely with cross-functional teams to develop and own a roadmap that aligns with both customer needs and business goals. You’ll explore complex data sets, transforming them into interactive, visually engaging tools that go beyond static charts and tables. Whether you’re creating recommendation models in partnership with the Data Science team or brainstorming new ways to enhance the Opportunity Explorer, your focus will be on driving real, actionable insights for partners. You’ll lead efforts to integrate advanced security features and create cutting-edge sales enablement tools, all while experimenting and iterating to deliver the most impactful solutions.

To thrive in this role, you must have a strong background in product management, with experience in building data products that drive sales insights and enablement. Familiarity with data analysis and visualization tools such as Figma, custom visualization tools, or custom UI libraries like D3.js is essential. You should be skilled at taking complex data and simplifying it into interactive, insightful experiences that empower users to make informed decisions. Experience with APIs and recommendation systems is a plus, especially if you've integrated them into a product before. Your ability to think strategically, prioritize enhancements, and collaborate with a diverse team will be critical to your success. We encourage you to bring your design flair, as your data insights and design ideas will be influential in shaping this UI. This is your opportunity to take data product management to the next level and make a tangible impact on our partners' success!

Essential Responsibilities:

• Own product strategy and execution for one or more data products that enable buyers and sellers on the Pax8 marketplace to use data to drive decision making.
• Apply design and product thinking to create innovative and intuitive experiences powered by data.
• Collaborate deeply with business and engineering stakeholders across the org to plan the right product improvements at the right time to meet a demonstrated market or business need.
• Communicate product strategy; collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering to help them deeply understand the strategy so they can effectively execute to maximize our growth, speed-to-market, and value.
• Distill vision and strategy into an actionable, focused roadmap that bolts into business OKRs; Socialize and advocate for the roadmap.
• 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, understand your product through data, and iterate.
• Lead agile ceremonies in collaboration with Engineering teams to ensure shared understanding of problems and solutions.
• Guide trade-off decisions to maximize value.
• Track progress against OKRs and understand product performance at a feature level.
• Make data-driven product decisions using a/b testing, metric optimization, and funnel analysis.
• Work closely with UX to generate insights from qual and quant data about users and features.
• 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.
• Deep understanding of data analysis, visualization techniques, and storytelling best practices.
• Track record of delivering data products that have data visualization features.
• Experience creating and/or implementing recommendation models.
• Scrupulous about value for the business with the ability to understand and focus on what’s most likely to bring ROI.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum Software Development along with project management tools (e.g., 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.
• Be a subject matter expert in the cloud IT space with understanding of internal and external customers’ needs.
• 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 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 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:

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

Compensation:

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