Product Manager - Kitchener, Canada - ApplyBoard

ApplyBoard

Verified Company

Kitchener, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

six core values

are our compass in our mission to Educate the World and the foundation of our unique company culture.

As an organization built on a foundation of diversity, it's important that our team members are representative of the students from more than 150 countries that we support.

The Role:

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager to join us in building the future of EdTech and ultimately help students find success throughout their education journey.

As a member of the Product team, you will play a critical role in defining, communicating, and executing the product vision and strategy across a variety of product areas.

Our PMs work across multiple functional groups to define and deliver new products and features, as well as identify opportunities to improve.

As a Product Manager within the FinTech team, you will play a critical role in defining and executing the product vision and strategy that empowers ApplyBoard to provide compelling financial systems and products that help remove the financial barriers in the goal of education as a fundamental right.

What you'll be doing every day:

Own the strategic roadmap for your domain, continuously critiquing the direction and delivery of key initiatives
Identify new initiatives that improve customer experience and drive growth, prioritizing them, moving them through concept phases and socializing with key stakeholders
Work closely with your Engineering, Design and Data Science counterparts to translate the product roadmap into detailed requirements and prototypes ready for execution
Be a champion in defining and measuring the impact of your product through data and sentiment analysis
Acts as a product evangelist to build awareness and alignment company wide
Drive product launches alongside Marketing, Executives, and other product management team members

What you bring to the table:

4+ years experience as a Product Owner/ Business Analyst building customer-impactful products at software company
2+ years experience with merchant, consumer payments or financial management technology
2+ years experience in an e-commerce enterprise
Technically savvy and comfortable working with a team of developers to understand the challenges and trade offs that come with building your product so that you are able to agree on the best approach
Experience building products from the ground up; from ideation to launch and beyond
Understanding of products within a multi-sided marketplace
Solid technical understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development life cycle, web technologies and agile methodologies
Proven ability to develop product strategies, effectively communicating recommendations to senior leadership teams
Strong ability to explore an ambiguous problem space, identify user segmentation, related opportunities, and prioritize solutions
Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
MS/BS degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

About ApplyBoard

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education.

With more than 800,000 students from over 150 countries helped with their journey in less than a decade, we are just getting started.

ApplyBoard's 1,350 global team members in 30 countries assist students and our 1,500 partner institutions by empowering the international student sector with innovative technology and insights.

As a four-time consecutive Deloitte Fast 50 and Fast 500 ranked company, ApplyBoard is growing and scaling like few other companies.

On top of our strong growth, our people are growing personally and professionally. ApplyBoard India was Great Place to Work Institute (India) certified for outstanding employee experience and workplace culture.

Thank you for your interest in joining the ApplyBoard Team and being part of our mission to Educate the World.

While we are lucky to attract a high level of interest in each of our roles, only qualified applicants will be contacted and selected for an interview.