Associate Product Manager

First Resonance

$80K — $95K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of experience in product management or engineering roles.
  • Customer-centric mindset with a strong desire to understand new users' challenges.
  • Proven execution skills to meet deadlines and communicate progress effectively.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to utilize data for problem-solving.
  • Familiarity with modern tools, especially related to AI and product development.
  • Clear communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Growth mindset to learn and adapt in product management.

Responsibilities

  • Interact with new customers to ensure effective onboarding and initial success.
  • Own the development of product features for user onboarding from discovery to launch.
  • Collaborate with senior product leaders to solve customer adoption barriers.
  • Act as liaison between Engineering and Design teams for assigned features.
  • Use data and user feedback to monitor feature success and suggest improvements.
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies such as stand-ups and sprint planning.

Benefits

  • Health insurance, including medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
  • Paid parental leave for new parents.
  • Employee stock option plan for ownership in the company.
  • Team outings and social events to foster team building.
  • Flexible Fridays and paid time off (PTO) for work-life balance.
  • 401K retirement plan options.
Full Job Description
Associate Product Manager

Overview

As an Associate PM, your primary focus will be interacting directly with new customers to ensure a strong onboarding experience and seamless product adoption. You will translate customer needs into functional requirements, and work daily with engineers to ship high-quality features. You will join a high-impact team where you will be mentored by senior leaders while taking direct ownership of specific product modules that shape the first-time user experience.

Responsibilities & Duties

As an Associate Product Manager, your primary goal is to contribute to the design and delivery of product experiences that help new customers realize the value of our platform quickly. You will manage the lifecycle of specific features, from initial discovery through to launch and optimization.
  • Customer Onboarding & Advocacy: Interact directly with new customers to ensure strong onboarding and early success. Support user research sessions and customer interviews, translating user feedback into product improvements to ensure features meet customer needs.
  • Feature Execution & Delivery: Take ownership of defined product areas related to user onboarding, ensuring the backlog is prioritized and that the engineering team has clear, actionable user stories and requirements.
  • Problem Solving: Work with senior product leaders to break down customer adoption barriers into manageable product tasks and functional solutions.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact for Engineering and Design on your assigned features. Collaborate directly with Customer Success and Sales to ensure a smooth transition for new customers and that new releases are easily understood.
  • Data-Informed Contributions: Use data and user feedback to track the success of launched features and suggest iterative improvements based on actual usage patterns.
  • Product Rituals: Participate in and help facilitate agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.


Minimum Qualifications & Skills
  • 2 - 4 years of experience in product management, product engineering, solutions engineering, or manufacturing engineering.
  • Customer-Centric Mindset: Deep empathy for users and a strong desire to interact directly with new customers to understand their goals, challenges, and workflows during the onboarding phase.
  • Strong Execution Skills: Proven ability to manage tasks effectively, meet deadlines, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders.
  • Analytical Mindset: Ability to use data to understand problems and a willingness to learn advanced product analytics tools to monitor user activation.
  • Familiarity with Modern Tools: Proficiency in (or a strong desire to learn) leveraging AI tools for drafting specifications, organizing feedback, and streamlining the product development process.
  • Communication: Clear verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical team members and confidently lead customer-facing meetings.
  • Growth Mindset: A proactive approach to learning the discipline of Product Management and building great software.


Desired Qualifications
  • Foundational experience working within an Agile/Scrum framework.
  • Experience in a customer-facing role
  • Basic understanding of how web applications work (e.g., an interest in how APIs, JSON, or data flow works between systems).
  • Passion for technology and a desire to improve the lives of the people using complex software tools.
  • Strongly Desired: Experience working on the manufacturing floor. Experience as a manufacturing engineer is highly desired.


Benefits & Perks
  • Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.
  • Paid Parental Leave.
  • Employee Stock Option Plan.
  • Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.
  • Paid holidays, sick days.
  • Flexible Friday and PTO.
  • 401K.

Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.

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