Weedmaps is a global leader in the cannabis industry, dedicated to transparency, education, and community. As a Group Manager of Product Management, you will lead several product lines and drive strategic and technological decisions to enhance the consumer experience and achieve revenue goals.
Responsibilities:
- Command a product department to innovate, drive revenue, and maximize user retention across our entire product portfolio
- Partner with leaders across the company to maintain a holistic product roadmap on an ongoing basis
- Have a deep and holistic understanding of how products are developed inclusive of all stakeholders (data, marketing, etc)
- Study cannabis industry trends, competition, stakeholder feedback, and analytics to make well informed product decisions
- Must maintain a deep understanding of our customers and their needs
- Must maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape across our entire product portfolio
- Identify new growth business opportunities through quantitative research, UI/UX studies, and reviews of industry standard methodologies
- Ensure that all initiatives have thorough rational documented and communicated by all product owners
- Work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to define business cases, requirements and user journey maps for new and existing customer needs and revenue opportunities
- Partner with Engineering leadership to achieve alignment and max efficiency across product and engineering teams
- Influence quality and productivity improvements through involvement in the development of new and improved procedures, process innovations, training, and changes in corporate culture
- Recruit, hire, grow, and retain top performing talent
- Leverage KPIs for measuring team performance and deliver performance reviews for your team members
- Drive and champion a culture of continuous learning to improve execution and remove roadblocks
- Ensure all team members are highly proficient in all of our tooling (self service analytics, feature rollout and experimentation, project management, and acceptance testing)
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of revenue-generating product leadership experience, with a focus on marketplaces and strong user communities, with 4+ years of managing and developing leaders
- Experience with at least two of the three following: subscription, e-commerce and advertising business models
- Experience working with engineering teams, business stakeholders managing expectations and building cross functional alignment
- Experience with standard forms of product development styles (agile, waterfall)
- Proven experience building, growing, inspiring and retaining a collaborative and results-focused team
- Ability to develop KPIs for measuring team performance and deliver performance reviews for your team member
- Track record of success balancing e-commerce with community building
- Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction based on customer needs and revenue targets
- Natural curiosity and growth mindset, with an obsession for the details
- Proven experience delivering results
- Effective and persuasive written and verbal communication skill