[Hiring] Product Manager @Merit America
Mar 18, 2025 - Merit America is hiring a remote Product Manager. 💸 Salary: $131,500. 📍Location: USA.
Role Description
As a Product Manager on our small but mighty team, you will be a key contributor and leader driving our product strategy and execution. You will gain a deep understanding of our learners, our coaches, their user journeys, jobs-to-be-done and pain points. You will make product investment recommendations and define OKRs in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team. You will work with your engineering and design team members to define solutions, validate them, build them and measure their impact.
Through this work, you will help create the future Merit America experience for learners – economically and educationally disadvantaged folks – and coaches – Merit America employees interacting directly with learners to ensure their success in our training and job placement programs. You will report to our Senior Product Manager, Kristin Li.
What you’ll be doing
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Strategy and Structured Thinking
- Excavate and validate problems to solve, needs, and pain points to drive impact for learner outcomes
- Collect and synthesize user feedback and ideas
- Define objectives and key results / metrics for the product initiatives you are driving to measure their success / impact
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Execution
- Provide user-focused rationale for product definition that guides product design decisions
- Partner closely and collaboratively with engineers and designers to build solutions that achieve the intended impact
- Understand issues that block team execution and keep up development team momentum by stepping up to help with resolution and proactively escalating where needed
- Gather and interpret qualitative feedback and quantitative metrics to measure the success of your projects
- Build expertise in the product areas you own, stepping up to clarify and troubleshoot product issues that arise
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Communication
- Clearly communicate the strategy and importance to the company of the initiatives you are driving to achieve team alignment
- Proactively consult with internal and external stakeholders to clarify questions and points of confusion with a given set of product initiatives
- Set and communicate clear expectations for your product initiatives, both internally on the development team and with cross-functional stakeholders
Qualifications
- Mission driven work: Committed to Merit America’s mission to pave pathways to family-sustaining careers, break the poverty cycle, and create upward mobility for low-wage workers
- Effective communicator and listener: Excellent communication and listening skills when working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional team members
- Organization and project management: Attention to detail and experience managing projects
- Independent self-starter: Self-motivated with a sense of deep personal responsibility for team success
- Flexible in ambiguity: Comfortable with the challenges of a remote work environment and the ambiguity of a growing startup
- Demonstrated history of embodying our values: Shared sense of responsibility and ownership for our collective work
- Committed to continuous learning and growth in understanding and addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Passionate about fostering a workplace culture that embraces and values individual differences
Requirements
- Technical and design collaboration: Experience successfully working closely with designers and engineers
- Product experience: Strong understanding of design thinking and agile development best practices
Benefits
- 4-day work week (Fridays are an operating day if there is a holiday closure during the week)
- Medical, Dental and Vision insurance (100% Paid Employee Only Coverage)
- Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account
- Dependent care Flexible Spending Account
- Health Reimbursement Account fully funded by Merit
- Education & personal development reimbursement
- Catalog of courses for professional learning and development
- Short and long-term disability
- Unlimited vacation (after a 90-day introductory period)
- Paid Parental Leave and Adoption benefits (after 1 year of employment)
- 11 federally recognized holidays
- 1 week office closure in July (week of July 4th)
- 2 week holiday office closure in December/January
- 401(k) retirement plan with automatic Merit contribution
- Wellness Benefits/Wellness Resources
- Discount perks at work program
- Phone/technology stipend
- Home office setup stipend
- Affinity groups and community building via virtual, in-person, and/or regional meetups
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Salary
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$131,500
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Remote
Location
USA
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 18, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
