Senior Product Manager - Axial

About Axial

Axial is the largest online M&A platform for buyers and sellers of SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses). Our mission is to unleash the potential of private capital markets for the benefit of all entrepreneurs. To pursue this mission, we have built a pioneering digital transaction marketplace that radically improves the speed, confidentiality and success rates of small business M&A transactions. In 2023, over 9,900 SMBs pursued M&A via the platform, leading to over 600,000 connections.

What will you do?

Senior Product Managers (PMs) at Axial lead all aspects of the product development process, from research and ideation to working with world-class engineers to launch great experiences and technology for our users. As a PM, you will be a leading member of a multi-disciplinary team of product development, UX design, and data professionals who collaborate closely to build products that are transforming the private capital markets.

PMs at Axial are customer-centric, data-driven, and critical thinkers that possess a strong understanding of technical application development, good design sense, and an exceptional ability to interpret and translate user behavior into high-impact products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Help define our roadmap. Work with Product leadership and internal stakeholders to define our 12-18 month roadmap based on a deep understanding of the Axial mission, stakeholder feedback, marketplace research & data analysis.
• Define and prioritize work. Collaborate with senior business leaders and other internal stakeholders to balance the art and the science of feature prioritization. Use a data-driven approach to make decisions and fail fast when necessary.
• Design elegant solutions. In collaboration with your UX and engineering partners, design highly discoverable and impactful product experiences that delight our users.
• Document Epics, User Stories, Release Plans and more. Create the necessary artifacts to communicate with internal stakeholders, enable the engineering team to execute with minimal ambiguity and bring new capabilities effectively to market.
• Empower cross-functional teams. Drive maximum business impact by partnering with Engineering, UX, Go To Market, Marketing and Executive teams.
• Lead agile teams. Drive the team and yourself to continuously inspect, adapt, and improve.

Who are we looking for?

• 6-10 years of professional experience in a product-centric role. Preferably in a technology, marketplace, or high-growth company.
• You are passionate about solving problems. You often wake up in the middle of night with fresh and elegant solutions to nagging user problems.
• You obsess over delighting users. You can demonstrate that you delivered a product that was fit for purpose based on deep user empathy gathered from user research, prototyping & design reviews, analyzing data and studying usage behaviors.
• You take pride in your work. You are your toughest critic and set a bar of excellence for your colleagues.
• You are a strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and engage in spirited discussions about the findings. You have the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• You are a self-starter. You're comfortable acting autonomously in ambiguous or fluid environments.
• Bonus: Experience in the world of finance, especially M&A / private capital markets.

Working at Axial:

We are a small and tight-knit team (currently 36 employees), and you'll have the opportunity to have a direct impact on the growth of the company. We have a comfortable and fully functional office in Manhattan on 30th and Park. The atmosphere is collegial, the office is open and inviting and full of accommodations (kitchen, snacks, coffee, adult beverages, relaxing spaces, games galore, and an upright piano). We work hard together, but also like to have fun together, and often enjoy company events like trivia, game nights, and our annual Axialite Day.

At Axial you will also enjoy:

• Working with a great team of smart, motivated people on exciting and unique projects
• Robust medical, dental and vision insurance, paid for by Axial at nearly 100% 
• 401k program
• Flexible PTO policy
• Paid Parental Leave Policy
• Monthly Health & Wellness stipend
• Pre-tax commuter program

Below are the values we subscribe to as a company:

• Obsess Over Member Trust: Your daily choices reflect your awareness that we facilitate vital life-altering transactions. You take this responsibility seriously and it's top of mind.
• Expect and Deliver Excellence: You demonstrate consistency so that your colleagues feel confident partnering and relying on you. You demonstrate a personal commitment to continuous improvement.
• Communication Matters: You are concise and articulate in your communication, external or internal. You listen well and genuinely.
• Invent and Simplify: You are open-minded, looking for great new ideas that can elevate and even transform the member experience. You find novel ways to simplify complex status quos.
• Be an Owner: You think about the long-term effects of your decisions. You invest real time in building relationships with your colleagues.