Senior Technical Product Manager

Job Description

About Collage.com, a Foreground Brand

Foreground is a platform of products that connects families and individuals with world-class photographers. The Foreground family of brands helps photographers and photo consumers create memories that last a lifetime by giving them access to tremendous software, professional services, supportive education and high quality photo products and custom gifts.

As a Foreground brand, Collage makes the creation of custom products easy for everyone, by providing superior software and excellent customer service. We sell an expanding variety of photo and home products, including photo blankets, photo books, canvases, pillows, and more.

We are 100% Remote

As a 100% remote company, we are set up to provide the best possible environment for engineering. The less time developers spend dealing with cumbersome processes, inefficient systems, and commuting, the more time they have to solve problems and make an impact. We pass almost all of The Joel Test (fix only high-priority bugs before writing new code), use continuous deployment (code goes straight to production after each merge), and are in the process of adopting mobx-state-tree with React . Strong engineering is a key part of our business strategy -- it lets us build best-in-class design tools faster than our larger competitors.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to join our Collage team. Our ongoing product goal is for every customer to have an outstanding experience designing and ordering photo products and this position will play a critical role in the continued achievement of that goal. This position will work closely with a team of engineers on the optimization of our technical infrastructure as well as integrations with our print partners and other third parties. Most importantly, the Senior Technical Product Manager will be improving the speed and depth of our ability to deliver value to our customers and provide them with an experience they’ll love.

Responsibilities

• Lead and collaborate closely with a product team consisting of dedicated engineers.
• Manage and carry out research to identify, understand, assess, and present technical problems and new opportunities.
• Draft, collect feedback on, and finalize requirements docs and functional specifications for projects to be built by the engineering team.
• Manage and prioritize a backlog of issues, as well as run biweekly sprints with the engineering lead.
• Work cross-functionally with other product teams, marketing, physical product team, customer service, and others as needed. Effectively manage dependencies to ensure that the right steps are taken in the right order.
• Clearly communicate ideas, expectations and progress with stakeholders and with the company as a whole.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in product management or relevant position is preferred but we are open-minded and more interested in the quality of experience than the years of experience.
• Successful experience collaborating with engineers, designers, and researchers preferably with a focus on consumer software.
• Experience putting lean methodologies into practice: capable of finding creative ways to quickly validate assumptions underlying both problems and solutions.
• A healthy level of skepticism and an analytical nature: ability to quickly absorb and analyze unfamiliar information to make decisions that are supported by sound evidence.
• Experience with data analysis and/or leading highly technical teams and projects, and working across organizations on complex integrations are a plus.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, and 401K with 4% company match
• A culture that promotes a healthy work-life balance including a flexible PTO plan
• This position is 100% remote

The Interview Process

The goal of our interview process is to identify people who will be a good fit for our company and are talented, ambitious individuals within their craft. Because you will be working remotely, all of our interviews are done remotely.

During the interview process, you will:

• Speak to a member of our talent acquisition team which will be mostly an experience and values/culture fit assessment
• Speak with a Senior Product Manager
• Speak with the Chief Product Officer
• Complete a take home challenge
• Speak with the Director of UX and other executives