Senior Product Manager (Contract)

We are open to candidates based +/- 4 hours PT

At Metalab, we ship beautiful, successful products that are rooted in true business and user needs. As a Senior Product Manager, you ensure that we aren’t just shipping features, but that we are shaping and shipping products that have a lasting effect on businesses and their customers. You’ll contribute to defining the core product definition and lead the successful delivery of the product through hands-on collaboration with your project team and clients. 

Your responsibilities:

• Contribute to the product strategy definition and creation and maintenance of product roadmaps by incorporating stakeholder inputs, user needs, market research, project timelines, and business objectives.
• Contribute to the creation of the product architecture and definition, collaborating with engineering and design teams to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business goals and user needs.
• Manage the delivery process, including feature prioritization, release planning, and coordination with engineering and operations teams to ensure timely and successful product launches.
• Lead ongoing requirements gathering, feature definition, and documentation for research, design, and engineering. 
• Prioritize design and development activities to keep the team and client laser-focused on solving the right problem at the right time.
• Generate various product artifacts, such as backlogs, user stories, sprint plans, briefs, requirements documentation, dependency diagrams, and logic flows, to support the design and engineering teams and keep them unblocked.
• Collaborate with engineering leads and project management to define technical implementation methods, assess backend requirements, generate technical estimates, and mitigate delivery impediments. 

The must-have short list: 

• Experience in shipping consumer and/or B2B products, with a demonstrable portfolio of products that are currently in the market.
• Excellent understanding of and experience in the software development process, including gathering requirements and defining specifications, prioritization, driving the QA process, and compiling and disseminating product documentation
• Experience supporting the shaping of a product, including the product strategy, definition, and roadmap creation.
• Have an understanding of how products are brought to market and operationalized.
• Experience in and appreciation for user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement.
• Ability to quickly understand, simplify, internalize, and communicate complex or technical concepts.
• Ability to work within software development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Notion, ProductBoard and Smartsheet
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a remote environment