Are you endlessly curious, rather technical, consider yourself a structured thinker, and a people person with natural leadership traits and great communication skills? If so, we’re looking for you.

An Associate Product Manager at Sidebench is an entry-level position, usually reporting to a Director of Product. This is often a mentorship position and the start of a product manager's career where you’ll be supporting larger products and in some cases leading smaller engagements. 

An Associate PM has the opportunity to learn from senior product leadership and form a strong foundation on product management. They will gain an understanding of design and development of new products. The responsibilities of an Associate Product Manager include supporting UI/UX designs, defining new ideas and features, analyzing data, and constantly looking for new ways to improve the product. Associate PMs will also often manage the SCRUM activities and ceremonies associated with a product and will help in the creation of PRDs, User Stories, and other artifacts associated with successfully managing a product.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Managers and Engineers to assist with discovery, documentation, feature development and bug tracking
• Prepare presentation materials to highlight design and development initiatives with internal stakeholders and client partners
• Lead some of the agile/scrum ceremonies and create release notes and client communications
• Team up with the Head of Product and Product Managers on building and launching various products
• Coordinate releases and task reviews with the engineering and QA teams
• Lead user testing initiatives to collect data and propose improvements to key aspects of the business
• Conduct research to identify customer and stakeholder needs and requirements
• Work with QA to troubleshoot and investigate issues and bugs
• Build competitive analysis frameworks to ensure our products can deliver unique value propositions
• Analyze funnels, KPIs, improvements and trends to share them with team members
• Sync with design to translate product requirements from relevant stakeholders

Qualifications

• Relevant coursework or work/internship experience in product, data, operations, or analyst related positions
• Comfortable leading a team of designers and engineers with the ability to ask the right questions at the right time
• Familiar with what an agile/scrum environment is and have experience using data visualization tools
• An endlessly curious personality with a bias toward action 
• Strong communication skills and constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery
• A team-first mentality and ability to demonstrate servant leadership
• The ability to confidently make decisions and stick by them to own your outcomes
• A data-driven mindset that leads to facts over feelings driven feedback and suggestions