Senior Product Manager

Discogs is excited to invite you to join our journey to enhance the record collector’s experience with a unique opportunity. We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to champion collaborative innovation that will shape the experience of Discogs users.

Location

While we are a remote company we are only accepting applications at this time from the following areas: OR, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Starting Base Salary $130,000

Who We Are

Discogs is the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use the Discogs Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As Discogs continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

Who We’re Looking For

The objective of the Senior Product Manager is to lead and work with a cross-functional team to deliver on their roadmap. The Senior PM provides strategic input that delivers quantifiable value for end users while ensuring the financial health and growth of the business. The Senior PM draws on their experience to provide business and user-centered analytical decision making while providing leadership that enables a highly-functioning team to quickly execute on strategic priorities.

Essential Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Drives and manages strategic product roadmap priorities. Aligns with business owner’s expectations and articulates vision for the pillar
• Drives goal setting and KPIs for the pillar and aligns to user value and financial outcomes for Discogs
• Runs the execution of large-scale projects, driving alignment with cross-functional teams to plan, align, and deliver product and feature launches
• Keeps a keen eye on team dynamics, spots problems early and leads resolutions to maintain a highly functioning team
• Coordinates with stakeholders such as Marketing and UX to incorporate market and user analysis into product decisions
• Uses thorough documentation to establish requirements and use cases for the purpose of stakeholder alignment and building epics and stories for the backlog
• Represents business interests and the implications and dependencies that come from other teams when making product decisions
• Constantly communicates with stakeholders about project timelines and regularly engages with RACI members to ensure progress
• Consistently evaluates the backlog against capacity and communicates with their manager and pillar leads about constraints
• Validates information that impacts scope, timeline, and resources to ensure work is worth doing and can be accomplished
• Works closely with Product Coordinator(s) and other pillar team leaders to communicate roadmap priorities, ensure day-to-day execution, and coordinate product launches
• Uses data to recommend, monitor, and track the viability of the roadmap and overall health of the pillar’s areas of ownership
• Monitors the pulse of the community during product and feature launches
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years work experience in a product role
• Professional certification preferred, e.g. CSPO, Project Management, software development methodologies (Scrum, Agile, Lean, etc.)
• Possesses project management experience and/or certification
• Has ability to effectively present and communicate information to stakeholders and senior management
• Experience using Product Development tools (Atlassian suite preferred--Jira, Trello, and Confluence)
• Experience working in online communities and/or ecommerce environments is required. Having history as a Discogs user may be considered as a suitable substitute
• Has ability to analyze data from various sources such as analytics tools, reports, and surveys
• Experience with large scale, high traffic websites that operate on a global scale is required
• Has extensive experience working with service-oriented architecture and microservices; APIs; automated testing; continuous deployment
• Understands agile principles and drives iterative processes to release and improve upon feature and product launches

Benefits

What We Provide

• Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
• 401(k) with employer match
• 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
• 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Annual professional and personal development allowance
• Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
• Flexible work location opportunities
• Employer matching toward charitable contributions

What We Believe In

Discogs’ mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community, and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community.

Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants needing accommodation to apply should contact us at 503-597-6340

If you apply for this role, you will be required to upload a resume, cover letter, and fill out a few questions regarding your application. Once submitted, our hiring team will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. Whether you are successful or not, we will store your application and data in our system for a maximum period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing this data and/or the period of time, please contact us at [email protected] and we will respond to you within 30 days.