Senior Product Manager - Aspire

About Aspire

Aspire is a leading provider of influencer marketing software and services for social commerce at scale. Since 2014, Aspire has helped brands build and manage relationships with millions of influencers, inspiring marketers to think bigger, plan smarter, and deliver outsized value. Brands and creators use Aspire to find and vet each other, activate influencer marketing campaigns of any size, and put the magic of branded content to work at scale. 

As a recognized leader by Forrester Research, Aspire has paid out over $100M to creators and is trusted by over 1,000 top brands from fashion to fitness and everything in between.

We're growing across the board - and we're looking for a Sr. Product Manager to join our distributed remote [department] team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment. 

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Product Manager to join our product team to help lead Aspire through an exciting period of growth. As a Sr. Product Manager, you will define and contribute to the strategic vision and own the long-term roadmap for major suites of the product. You will use your customer obsession, product domain expertise, and ownership to lead products and teams through strategic and technical ambiguity to ultimate success. You will be responsible for aligning multiple teams and stakeholders, work closely with designers, engineers, marketing, and customer success and more to deliver value to our customers and business. 

As Product Managers, we are responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle - from discovery to feature definition and prioritization, product messaging, go-to-market strategies. We are also responsible to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market and technical and business outcomes, communicating goals and KPIs, and desired outcomes. You have a proven track record of product management, experience driving strategy, and influencing executive leadership. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, approaches complex business questions with data and curiosity, and loves to dive below the surface to identify the root cause and help drive a path forward. 

What you'll be working on:

• Define the product direction and strategy for product areas you own
• Understand our customers, our products, and our competitors to identify needs & opportunities to advance our product and innovation.
• Lead your product team to design, build, and launch elegant features that solve customer problems.
• Own the end to end customer experience and be a constant bar raiser for improving and delivering excellent product solutions. 
• Define clear product metrics and set ambitious targets for your team.
• Closely collaborate with our Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience teams to understand their needs and to ensure that your roadmap is addressing customer needs. 

What we're looking for: (Job Requirements/Must have) 

• 5+ years experience in a Product Manager role at SaaS companies
• Demonstrated ability to define a user-centric long-term strategy supported by clear tactics and milestones
• Strong UX/UI sensibility  - a keen sense of design and bar for high quality UX and the impact it can have on customer outcomes. 
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills. Excited by the idea of managing multiple responsibilities at once and ruthlessly prioritizing the highest impact work
• An empathetic and attentive listener; someone who is committed to understanding and anticipating the needs of our customers and key stakeholders
• A proactive, self-starter; someone who can roll up their sleeves and solve problems on their own initiative.
• A data driven product manager who understands the right questions to ask and figures a path to get objective data to understand and inform the decisions we make.

Bonus Points:

• Work in a DTC (Direct to Consumer) experience or marketplace solutions would be a bonus - but not required.

Benefits and Perks

• Health, Dental & Vision - Put your health first with 90% covered health insurance. (U.S Only)
• 4 months of Paid Parental Leave - Aspire has an industry-leading parental leave policy for both mothers and fathers.
• Unlimited PTO - Refuel and rest with our unlimited paid time-off policy.
• Flexible Schedules - Set your hours by your calendar, not the clock.
• Work From Home Stipend -  $400 to cover your remote work setup.
• Annual Education Credit - $2,500 in yearly education credits because learning should be lifelong.
• Monthly Internet Stipend - $50 monthly internet stipend; we help pay your monthly internet bill.
• Unlimited Book Reimbursement Perk - Love reading? Let us foot the bill for work-related books.

Our compensation philosophy: we use a market-based approach to compensation. This means we use a series of compensation tools to help us understand how companies value this role in the U.S. market based on function, level, geographic location, and positions benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Multiple factors, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise, determine final offer amounts and may vary from the amounts listed above. We have competitive pay bands for all other countries based on market standards.

The base salary for this role is between USD 140-180K. 

Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.