Centific is a company focused on AI data platforms, and they are seeking a Growth Product Manager to define the platform roadmap and drive product strategy. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality features, leveraging data-driven decision making, and advocating for user needs in product design.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with AVP of Product to define platform roadmap that balances foundational fixes with innovation and competitive differentiation
- Analyze competitive landscape in AI data platforms and identify opportunities to differentiate and win in the market
- Translate business objectives and user insights into compelling product narratives and strategic initiatives
- Build business cases and prioritization frameworks (impact/effort, RICE, etc.) to guide roadmap decisions
- Collaborate with engineering, design, data science, recruitment, delivery, operations and client teams to ship high-quality features on aggressive timelines
- Influence stakeholders across recruitment, delivery, sales, and customer success to align on product priorities and drive platform adoption
- Partner with marketing and go-to-market teams to position product capabilities and drive user acquisition and engagement
- Build trust with distributed engineering teams (including global development centers) through clear communication and stakeholder management
- Define KPIs and success metrics for product initiatives, leveraging analytics tools to measure impact
- Design and execute A/B tests and multivariate experiments to validate hypotheses and optimize user experiences
- Build dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide visibility into product health, user behavior, and business outcomes
- Apply strong product sense and UX intuition to evaluate designs, prototypes, and user flows
- Partner with designers (or work independently when needed) to create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that communicate product vision
- Advocate for user needs and ensure design decisions are grounded in research, data, and usability best practices
Requirements:
- 3+ years of product management experience in consumer-facing or B2B platforms
- Proven track record scaling products to millions of users (required - must demonstrate specific examples)
- 3+ years working at high-growth technology companies or fast-scaling startups
- Product-led growth: Deep understanding of activation funnels, onboarding optimization, retention tactics, and viral mechanics
- User experience design: Strong product sense, ability to evaluate and influence design decisions, familiarity with design tools (Figma, Sketch)
- Experimentation & analytics: Hands-on experience designing A/B tests, analyzing user data (SQL required), and building dashboards
- Competitive intelligence: Ability to analyze competitor products, identify market trends, and translate insights into product strategy
- Stakeholder management: Exceptional communication skills, ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leadership
- Comfortable working with engineering teams on technical product decisions
- Understanding of APIs, system architecture, and data flows (ability to read API documentation, understand integration points)
- Bias to action: Ships MVPs quickly, iterates based on feedback, comfortable with ambiguity
- User-centric: Obsessed with understanding user needs, pain points, and behavior
- Data-informed: Uses data to validate hypotheses but balances with qualitative insights and product intuition
- Collaborative: Builds trust across teams, seeks input from stakeholders, operates with transparency
- Experience with marketplace platforms, two-sided networks, or workforce management systems (preferred)
- MBA or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Design, or related field
- Experience in AI data, annotation, labeling, or crowd workforce platforms
- Background in operations-heavy products (logistics, fulfillment, marketplace operations)
- Experience launching 0→1 products or leading platform redesigns
- Familiarity with international/global product launches and localization
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and LLM-based products (nice-to-have)