Senior Product Manager

Role Overview

• Own and lead all aspects of an established agile team, including backlog grooming, triage, and prioritization, and cross-functional coordination.
• Define the scope of new product features and ongoing improvements across web, mobile, and desktop applications.
• Write and prioritize user stories and define acceptance criteria.
• Establish and maintain a high level of credibility with internal and external partners.
• Break down complex problems and use data and analytics, combined with high-quality user research, to inform product direction.
• Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team.
• Run various ad-hoc research and business analyses to assess opportunities and risks.
• Take ownership of identifying and solving complex product challenges that align with both short-term goals and long-term strategic initiatives.
• Apply system-analyst techniques and procedures, including consulting with users to determine hardware, software, or systems functional specifications.
• In the first week, expect to: Onboard and integrate into Toptal while independently starting to study and learn the Toptal product suite.
• Become acquainted with your product area, the product goals, and those you will partner with.
• In the first month, expect to: Work cross-functionally with Designers, Engineers, and senior stakeholders to organize and prioritize your high-level roadmap and backlog.
• Start collaborating closely with your development team.
• Take over all in-flight and planned initiatives.
• In the first three months, expect to: Fully support a product category, working collaboratively to complete quarterly planning and set OKRs.
• While exercising discretion and independent judgment, launch features that deliver high business impact.
• Be fully embedded into and own a development team.
• Monitor and measure the success of your initiatives against company goals.
• Continuously improve the team’s processes through meaningful contributions.
• In the first six months, expect to: Drive end-to-end delivery of our mobile and desktop apps, ensuring feature parity, high-quality user experience, and alignment with the web platform roadmap.
• Independently discover new product opportunities for your backlog.
• Develop a repeatable model for delivering upon our roadmap initiatives.
• Work across the Product team to measure and refine the roadmap, backlog, and processes to make improvements over time.
• Constantly re-evaluate your roadmap’s alignment with the strategic goals of the business, adjusting where necessary.
• In the first year, expect to: Deliver your roadmap priorities and promises.
• Ensure your team has an incredible record of building impactful products in a timely and elegant fashion.
• Work cross-functionally to scale your team to meet the growing needs of our business and our users.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in a technical discipline.
• 5+ years of proven software product management experience.
• Proven ability to lead products end-to-end from early discovery and zero-to-one development through launch, iteration, and scale, even in ambiguous environments.
• Experience in B2B SaaS, ideally with exposure to HR tech, data-heavy, or compliance-heavy products.
• Knowledge of AI product development processes.
• Experience with third-party system integrations is a plus.
• Comfortable working with SQL or spreadsheets to analyze data, as well as conducting research with internal and external users.
• Strong expertise in using data to make decisions with a variety of tools and methodologies to gather and synthesize information.
• Ability to creatively craft solutions through data and a customer-centric approach.
• Ability to build wireframes and mockups, with an aptitude for keeping things simple.
• Be meticulous and have a high bar for quality when writing user stories, reviewing designs, brainstorming technical approaches, and testing a feature before it is released.
• Be humble, willing to learn, and do whatever is needed to help us accomplish our goals.
• Experience using agile development methodologies with globally distributed teams and the ability to keep up with a fast-paced and global company.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
• You thrive in environments where you are empowered to lead by doing, working directly with users, data, and your team to make progress and drive results.
• You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.

Tech Stack

• SQL

Benefits

• This is a remote position.
• Resumes and communication must be submitted in English.