Product Manager - Analytics
Pax8 is the leading cloud-based technology marketplace, simplifying the cloud journey for our partners by integrating technology, business intelligence and proactive service to deliver an unparalleled experience. Serving thousands of partners through the indirect sales channel, our mission is to be the world’s favorite place to buy cloud products. We are a fast-growing, dynamic and high-energy startup organization, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, it’s business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative and humorously offbeat. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best.
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No matter who you are, Pax8 is a place you can call home. We know there’s no such thing as a “perfect" candidate, so we don’t look for the right "fit" – instead, we look for the add. We encourage you to apply for a role at Pax8 even if you don’t meet 100% of the bullet points. We believe in cultivating an environment with a diversity of perspectives, in hopes that we can all thrive in an inclusive environment.
We are only as great as our people. And we have great people all over the world. No matter where you live and work, you’re a part of the Pax8 team. This means embracing hybrid- and remote-work whenever possible.
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 MSP partners. We clear barriers by compulsively assessing cost-benefit to ensure that highest priority products can be brought to market quickly—and that we’re leading the field in cloud-based SaaS distribution. And we solve 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:
The Product Manager develops the vision and strategy for a product. They work closely with other Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineers, UX designers, and business stakeholders and help define a roadmap that delivers value for both customers and the business. The Manager uses techniques such as design thinking, user testing, and experimentation to generate insights to have a general understanding of our business and customers. They assist more senior product managers to prioritize enhancements that will have the greatest impact. The Manager creates basic product artifacts and participates in iterating on product processes.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Own and drive strategy for enhancing Pax8’s analysis and reporting capabilities.
- Apply design and product thinking to how to best enable Pax8 data consumers to drive insights.
- Be a subject matter expert in the cloud IT space, with understanding of internal and external customers’ needs and trends
- Collaborate closely with business 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 with your cross-functional team so they can effectively execute to maximize our growth, speed-to-market, and value; guide trade-off decisions
- Work with diverse groups of stakeholders to identify, document and prioritize product features that drive world class customer experience, and articulate them with agile epics and user stories
- Prioritize work streams and guide execution to maximize our growth, speed-to-market, and value. Ideate, write clear stories, refine, remove blockers, perform UAT, and iterate.
- Together with leadership, distill vision and strategy into an actionable, resolutely focused roadmap that bolts into business OKRs. Socialize and advocate the roadmap
- Track progress against OKRs and understand product performance at a feature level
- Make data-driven product decisions with A/B testing, metric optimization, and funnel analysis
- Work closely with UX to generate insights from qual and quant data about users and features
Ideal Skills, Experience, and Competencies:
- At least three (3) years of experience in product management or an equivalent role
- Basic understanding of how APIs and cloud services work
- Scrupulous about value for the business; ability to articulate how and why a feature is expected to impact business objectives and what potential ROI may be
- Excellent communication, organizational, and people skills
- Ability to work with some autonomy and minimal guidance with a bias to action
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and problem-solve with diverse people in different parts of the organization
- Solid experience leading and understanding of software delivery process, analytics best practice and tools, and website design principles
- Strong project management skills with the ability to multitask and manage multiple projects
- Ability to ask insightful questions, challenge assumptions, and be detail oriented
- Comfortable with ambiguity and can adapt to rapidly changing situations
- Data-driven by nature with ability to make decisions
- Track record of defining and delivering 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
Travel Requirements:
Occasional travel to Pax8’s main office, external partners, and conventions
Compensation:
- Qualified candidates can expect a salary beginning at $92,000 or more depending on experience
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*Note: Compensation is benchmarked on local Denver Metro area market rates. Qualified candidates in other locations can expect a salary package that may be adjusted based off applicable cost of wages in their respective location.
At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:
- Non-Commissioned Bonus Plans or Variable Commission
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employer Paid Short & Long Term Disability, Life and AD&D Insurance
- Flexible, Open Vacation
- Paid Sick Time Off
- Extended Leave for Life events
- RTD Eco Pass (For local Colorado Employees)
- Career Development Programs
- Stock Option Eligibility
- Employee-led Resource Groups