About The Opportunity
The primary goal of a product manager is to craft excellent product solutions for our clients and ensure that we deliver exceptional consulting, technology, and creative services at all times. PMs are front and center at Sidebench and play a leading role both internally and in the eyes of our clients.

You will be expected to drive the product vision and delivery of our client projects while keeping both client and internal teams up to speed on the project roadmap, as well as leading analysts, designers, and developers, managing project budgets, and identifying and escalating risks to the Sidebench leadership team.
 

Responsibilities

• Use research, data, industry best practices and a product-focused mentality to make decisions that define you as a respected product and team lead  

• Own every phase of the product life cycle from initial requirements gathering to QA

• You use extreme attention to detail to establish a strong project foundation that ensures the success of your product decisions

• Challenge design and development decisions to advocate for your users and the client’s business strategies

• Define, analyze and measure KPIs for a product

• Prioritize features, build backlogs and roadmaps to illustrate and own the product vision

• Work with lead engineers to define the technical decisions required to support maximum usability, product scalability, and client business needs

• Use software management best practices to maintain strict accountability for the project budget, scope, and timelines

• Constantly build and maintain detailed project plans — your development sprints are always up to date and all internal and client stakeholders know how your teams are tracking.

• Provide timely status reports and communication to internal and client stakeholders

• Communicate risks and wins to both internal and client stakeholders

Requirements

• You have 3-5 years of experience managing and successfully delivering complex web and mobile products in an agency or consulting environment

• You see yourself as a client-facing, product delivery all-star, you kick ass on a regular basis, and you have the experience to back this up

• You have the ability to run and prioritize multiple client projects at a time

• You constantly seek value in what you create and verify every product decision with data, user feedback, business cases, and technical feasibility

• You have a deep understanding of the purpose for each Scrum event: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective

• You have familiarity with common software analytical tools (i..e Google Analytics, MixPanel, etc.)

• You look at data to drive product decisions on behalf of our clients

• You are familiar with the use and configuration of one or more Agile development management tools

• Updating projects plans and running well-organized sprints is your jam

• You have a strong understanding of how different technologies work together and are comfortable discussing it with technical architects and developers

• You have strong stakeholder management skills and are comfortable leading and pushing back on client stakeholders when necessary

• You are process-oriented with a high attention to detail and get excited about running an efficient and well-oiled project team machine

• You are determined to help build the best interactive consulting agency in Los Angeles