Zendesk

Senior Product Manager

Zendesk$182K — $274K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years in Product Management for customer-focused SaaS products.
  • Experience in designing and shipping full-stack solutions including front-end, back-end, and APIs.
  • Strong collaborator skilled in working with engineering teams to find solutions.
  • Ability to navigate complex systems while balancing performance, cost, and user experience.
  • Self-starter with a problem-solving mindset and ownership mentality.
  • Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences including customers and executives.
  • Proficient in using analytics tools for informed decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of an approvals workflow engine to enhance productivity.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert, engaging with internal and external customers to gather insights.
  • Set and articulate the product vision and roadmap for the approvals area.
  • Drive the execution of new product capabilities in collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Advocate for a user-centric design approach, collaborating with UX/UI designers.
  • Define and track OKRs and success metrics for product performance.
  • Ensure scalability of services to manage significant rule executions without impacting infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model offering flexible remote and in-office schedule.
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact projects with cross-functional teams.
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment that emphasizes learning.
  • Supportive company culture focused on connection and celebration.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Senior Product Manager Approvals & Automations

We9re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the following product area

  • An approvals workflow engine that can enable mult-step approval processes, improve productivity for our customers and can fast track our investments in Employee Services.
  • Integration of Approvals steps and actions with the AI Agents integration platform and with the Zendesk MCP server for external Agentic AI to action upon approvals


In this role you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to deliver a robust and user-friendly workflow solution that meets the needs of our customers. Your expertise in product management and deep understanding of workflow processes will be essential in driving the success of this initiative.

As a Senior Product Manager for Approvals & Integrations you9ll...
  • Be a subject matter expert in this product area, and work with customers both internal and external to understand their needs
  • Be a strategic leader for this area, setting and articulating a vision and roadmap
  • Drive the execution of new capabilities and enhancements with your own engineering teams as well as work cross-functionally with other product areas including, Integration partners and Go-To-Market teams (i.e. sales & customer success) to support their initiatives.
  • Advocate for a user-centric approach in product development. Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and engaging user interfaces that enhance the overall user experience.
  • Define OKRs, success metrics and review performance against those.
  • Be responsible for scaling these services to manage thousands of rule executions with minimum impact on the Zendesk infrastructure.


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor9s Degree, with 5 years of Product Management experience under your belt, delivering products that met business goals.
  • Your work experience will include customer-focused SaaS, designing and shipping 4full-stack4 from front-end, to back-end, and APIs.
  • A great collaborator that knows that to deliver anything of value is a team effort and likes to dig in with intelligent and passionate engineers to find the best solution to a problem.
  • Ability to understand complex systems, and balance appropriate tradeoffs between performance, cost, and user experience.
  • A self-starter with a bias for action who is motivated to solve problems and deliver results with an owner mentality.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for varying audiences: customers, engineering, marketing, program management, and executives.
  • The drive to deeply understand our product, the market, our customers, and when to use the right data to measure success, using analytics tools to aid in decision-making.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Past experience building an enterprise product based on BPMN standards


The US annualized base salary range for this position is $182,000.00-$274,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

About Zendesk

Zendesk is a customer service software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol ZEN and is a constituent of the Russell 2000 Index. The company provides a cloud-based customer support platform which allows quicker and easier interaction between businesses and customers. Zendesk has over 4,000 employees and serves 150,000 customers in 160 countries. The company was founded in 2007 by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour.
Learn more about Zendesk
Size
2,570 employees
Market Cap
$10.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$218.1 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+33.7%
Revenue
$1 billion
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