Principle Product Manager

Posted Apr 24

Be at the center of AI

With more than 40 million users, Anaconda is the world’s most popular data science platform and the foundation of modern AI development. We pioneered the use of Python for data science, championed its vibrant community, and continue to steward open-source projects that make tomorrow’s innovations possible. Our enterprise-grade solutions enable corporate, research, and academic institutions around the world to harness the power of open source for competitive advantage, groundbreaking research, and a better world.

Anaconda is seeking people who want to be at the center of Artificial Intelligence. Candidates should be knowledgeable and capable, but always eager to learn more and to teach others. 

Here is why people love most about working here: We’re not just a company, we’re part of a movement. Our dedicated employees and user community are democratizing data science and creating and promoting open-source technologies for a better world, and our commercial offerings make it possible for enterprise users to leverage the most innovative output from open source in a secure, governed way.

Summary

Anaconda is seeking a talented Principal Product Manager to join our rapidly-growing company. This is an excellent opportunity for you to leverage your experience and skills and apply it to the world of data science and machine learning. 

What You’ll Do:

  • Define and own the strategy for their portfolio and generate strategy presentations for their portfolio. 
  • Key stakeholder in overall product strategy and influences product strategy for other products in their part of the businessAccountable for product strategy and requirements for major product areas.
  • A true partner for their product leader and participates in product leadership forums and discussions
  • Will influence stakeholders that hold opposing views and is well respected by peers and leaders
  • Define, propose, and build a business case for new products and offerings that the company should pursue
  • Define, measure, and report applicable KPIs to measure the success of new product initiatives
  • Identify long-term direction and strategy of product area and influence company strategy
  • SMEIdentify of competitive landscape and owner of competitive briefs and how it affects our strategy to both inform the product but also the rest of the company;
  • SME on your market’s needs and the customer’s views of how the team is implementing a product feature.
  • Consensus builder but ultimate decision-maker for product direction
  • Sets go-to-market strategy and plan for releases with product marketing and executes those plans including content generation
  • Ability to manage partnerships and partner relationships for product integration
  • Synthesize user and field feedback into long-term plans.
  • Write clear and compelling Themes, Epics, and User stories in the most complex user segments.
  • Lead development and refinement of user personas.
  • Be seen as a key technical influencer for all of product by sales engineering teams.
  • Write and deliver strong technical content for end users and field teams.
  • Mentor other product managers and lead product processes and forum junior team members
  • Maintain a pulse on technical industry trends
  • Regularly conduct product demos and presentations internally and externally
  • Identify opportunities to create new processes and programs, and can create and implement them
  • Product Vision and Leadership on a multi-year horizon
  • Macro tradeoffs between products within the portfolio
  • Able to perform build, vs. buy, partner analysis for new initiatives recommendations
  • Able to influence and drive alignment with senior stakeholders
  • Own, define, and report on product and business metrics and manage the health of their business

What You Need:

  • Examples of holding others accountable and driving things forward
  • Experience product managing multiple products from definition through delivery and end-of-life
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders
  • Hands-on experience with Pragmatic Marketing, Scrum Alliance, 280 Group, or similar framework. 
  • Hands-on experience identifying, defining, and resolving user problems. 
  • Hands-on experience with Pragmatic marketing framework. 
  • Hands-on experience defining user problems. 
  • Knowledge of customer IT and data science environments (preferred)
  • Understanding of UI/UX principles
  • Acknowledged company leader
  • Understanding of UI/UX principles and processes
  • Demonstrated success in defining and launching products
  • Development of roadmaps and product strategy presentations
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and manage up
  • Owns reporting of business metrics for their product, like Revenue, ARR/MRR, churn, EBITDA, CAC, LTV, and how we run a business. 
  • Industry leader with contributions to blogs, presentations at conferences and publications, and significant public profile
  • Has shown a significant impact on one or more company business metrics via their products
  • Has published and created extensive internal content and is viewed as a thought leader throughout the company
  • Fully developed skills in current role
  • Team attitude: “I am not done until WE are done”
  • Embody our core values: 
  1. Great People
  2. Great Product
  3. Great Performance
  • Care deeply about fostering an environment where people of all backgrounds and experiences can flourish 

What Will Make You Stand Out:

  • Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment
  • Experience working in a open-source or data science-oriented company

Why You’ll Like Working Here:

  • Unique opportunity to translate strong open-source adoption and user enthusiasm into commercial product growth
  • Dynamic company that rewards high performers
  • On the cutting edge of enterprise application of data science, machine learning, and AI
  • Collaborative team environment that values multiple perspectives and clear thinking
  • Employees-first culture
  • Flexible working hours
  • Medical*, Dental*, Vision*, HSA*, Life* and 401K*
  • Paid parental leave - both parents
  • Pre-IPO stock options
  • Open vacation policy* 
  • Quarterly Snake Days (bonus days off company-wide)
  • 100% remote as we are a remote-first company

*FTE employees based on your region

Anaconda's compensation philosophy is driven by market analysis based on location. To best ensure pay equity, we typically bring in new hires near the middle of the market band for your region. The recruiter you work with can provide more details on this philosophy.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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