Product Manager

About the Role or Who you are

As a Product Manager at Thrive TRM you'll be responsible for delivering on a product roadmap that enables executive recruiters to attract world class executive talent to new job opportunities.

The ideal candidate possesses an intuitive sense for what makes great SaaS software products, has excellent written and verbal communication skills, has the ability to support their point of view while keeping an open mind, and can build consensus towards the best outcomes for our customers.

Responsibilities or What you’ll accomplish

• Work with our customers, prospects, and partners to understand the challenges their businesses face and translate that into best-in-class solutions.
• Define and document features that enable platform scalability and drive growth.
• Run product discovery, define and validate problem hypotheses, and gain a deep understanding of user experience
• Create well-written product briefs that clearly articulate the customer problem that the product or feature being developed will address.
• Break down epics into discrete user stories with acceptance criteria and highlight the value delivered to the user with each story.
• Lead refinement sessions to ensure that the user stories are clearly defined, well-understood, and ready for development.
• Lead sprint planning sessions and set goals for the sprint to make sure that the work being done is well prioritized and aligns with business objectives.
• Guide the development team each sprint to ensure that the software delivered at the end of the sprint meets the acceptance criteria outlined in user stories and designs.
• Partner with the client success and marketing team to write release notes outlining the features released at the end of a sprint.
• Represent the product team in launch activities and evangelize new product capabilities internally and with clients.

• 2+ years of product management experience.
• Demonstrated success defining and launching valuable software products using an agile software development methodology (scrum, kanban, etc.).
• Ability to clearly communicate product decisions and the rationale behind them, tailoring verbal and written communications to the audience.
• Ability to build consensus towards the best outcomes for our customers.
• Experience working with B2B SaaS products preferred.

• We’re small enough to be a startup, but large enough to have stability.
• You will have a major impact and contribute directly to the success of our customers and our business.
• Learning is an important part of our culture, we offer educational reimbursement for continuing education.
• We foster a supportive, inclusive environment and provide many comforts - always-stocked snacks and beverages, relaxed dress code, sit/stand desks, MacBook Pros, ping pong.
• We offer competitive salary, medical/dental/vision insurance, Health Savings Account with employer contribution, 401(k) plan with company matching, FSA and commuter benefits.
• Our office is located in Haddonfield, NJ - a beautiful, tree-lined historic town within walking distance of lots of shops and restaurants and which is just a quick Patco ride from Center City Philadelphia.

This is a full-time position. You may choose to work in one of our offices or work remotely from a home office, but you must be authorized to work in the U.S. and operate a normal 8 hour working day between the hours of 8am and 8pm EST.

About Thrive (a True Company)

Thrive is a fast-growing software company based outside of Philadelphia with about a third of its employees distributed throughout the US. Our mission is to make hiring for executive leadership positions easier, faster, and more equitable. Thrive’s clients include some of the world’s largest search firms, venture capital/private equity firms, and corporate executive recruitment teams including Starbucks, NEA, and Boyden.

Executive hiring is unlike typical staffing and recruiting. Most executives are passive candidates, meaning they don't apply for positions. They are commonly found through well-maintained networks and relationships. Unfortunately, most popular recruiting tools and CRMs don’t work well for this use case. Enter Thrive, purpose-built software for executive recruiting and leadership talent management. We are aggressively investing in building disruptive solutions that help talent professionals find the best leaders, build curated talent networks, and place executives.

Thrive was born out of True, one of the fastest-growing organizations in the talent advisory space. 

True is a global platform of companies that optimizes value creation by placing executive talent, developing business leaders, creating diverse and inclusive networks, and using innovative technology to advance executive talent priorities. With offices in North America, EMEA, & APAC, True’s team of industry and functional experts leverage their deep networks to connect companies with leading talent to transform businesses and industries.