Product manager - affiliate marketing industry

As a Product Manager at City Innovations, you will play a pivotal role in one of our key ventures, focused on building a cutting-edge SaaS solution in the affiliate marketing industry. Your primary responsibility is to manage the product lifecycle from ideation to execution, ensuring our solutions meet client needs and drive business success. Utilizing key City Innovations frameworks such as Lean Canvas, Jobs to Be Done (JTBD), Market Validation Funnel, Google Design Sprints, and Agile, you will deliver sustainable and scalable results.

In this crucial role, you will not only develop and execute strategic product plans but also create narratives that resonate with customers, investors, and key stakeholders. Your ability to tell a powerful story will shape the perception and success of our products, fostering long-term relationships and driving client satisfaction through proactive engagement and strategic guidance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Strategy and Vision: Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's goals and market needs. Create compelling narratives that effectively convey the vision, value proposition, and strategic goals of the SaaS solution.
• Client Engagement: Act as the primary point of contact for our corporate partner, leading the strategic and operational aspects of product delivery from inception to completion. Foster strong client relationships through proactive engagement and strategic guidance.
• Product Development: Lead the end-to-end product development process, from ideation to launch, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality output.
• Market Analysis: Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify opportunities, validate product ideas, and stay ahead of industry trends.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to define product requirements and ensure alignment across the organization.
• Roadmap Management: Create and maintain a product roadmap that prioritizes features based on business goals, customer needs, and technical feasibility.
• Project Management: Collaborate closely with the Project Manager to manage deliverables, assist with change orders, pricing, and delivery.
• User-Centric Approach: Advocate for the customer by understanding their needs, gathering feedback, and ensuring that user experience is at the forefront of product decisions.
• Metrics and KPIs: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and drive continuous improvement.

About City Innovations:

We help companies build digital ventures that will matter to the world. We are a Venture Studio of strategists, technologists, idealists, pragmatists & capitalists all working together to make sure you build the right thing, and it gets to the market faster. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with peers creatively to bring ideas to life in the digital world.

City holds tightly to our Core Values…

• Care: Value Community and People First
• Own: Have an Ownership Mindset
• Serve: Serve the Needs of Others
• Learn: Freedom to Try Something New And To Make Mistakes
• Enjoy: Enjoy and Embrace the Journey

City Innovations’ Employee Value Proposition:

At City Innovations, your growth is our priority. You will join a global team who loves building the right thing. Our culture champions innovation and collaboration with initiatives such as an annual allowance for professional development, wellness programs, our annual Team Week, and dynamic design sprints that turn your ideas into real-world solutions. The flexibility to work remotely, supported by resources such as home office stipends and co-working space memberships helps ensure your career progresses no matter where you choose to be.

City Innovations not only recognizes your achievements with reward systems such as shared success compensation bonuses for key roles, but also provides the tools and flexibility needed for your success.

Other Benefits Include:

• Health insurance
• Paid Time Off in addition to Wellness Days
• Paid parental leave and company observed holidays
• Monthly internet stipend

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience within delivery or product management, with a proven track record of successful project execution and client management.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Technology, Human Centered Design or a related field a plus.
• Proficiency in using frameworks such as Lean Canvas, Jobs to Be Done, Market Validation Funnel, and Agile methodologies.
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to manage complex projects and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on strategic thinking and problem-solving.
• Experience in the affiliate or direct marketing industry is preferred but not required.

Work Environment - Office

In this role, your primary work environment will be your home office, complemented by our co-working space in Grand Rapids, MI. Our teams work virtually but co-work is expected between 9am to 5pm Eastern. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands - Office

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions but it is understood that this role requires 10-25% travel to client and team meetings. While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to use computers, telephones, and other office equipment. The employee must also occasionally lift and/or move items up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

City Innovations is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and we are committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.