Senior Product Manager - US-Based

Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a team of engineers and work cross-functionally to define, build, and launch mission-critical initiatives, focusing on delivering impactful solutions through a data-driven approach.

Responsibilities:

• Own and lead all aspects of an established agile team, including backlog grooming, triage, and prioritization, and cross-functional coordination
• Translate AI platform capabilities into customer-facing, talent-facing, and internal product experiences that deliver measurable business value
• Responsible for defining the scope of new product features and ongoing feature improvements
• 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
• 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
• Work cross-functionally and with other Product Managers 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
• Own a product category, working collaboratively to complete quarterly planning and set objectives
• 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
• Work alongside other Product Managers to 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
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree is required, preferably in a technical discipline
• At least 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 designing and launching AI-powered product features that improved engagement, efficiency, and measurable business outcomes
• Experience building and orchestrating intelligent workflows by connecting systems and automation tools to solve problems at scale
• 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
• Proven experience managing the development and launch of mobile, desktop, and web applications across the full product lifecycle is a plus
• Knowledge of AI product development processes
• Experience with third-party system integrations is a plus