Product Manager

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Merit America

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Merit America is an educational organization focused on providing skills-based training for individuals looking to start or advance technology careers. The company offers programs in IT support, data analytics, UX design, cybersecurity, project management, and Java development, among others. Learners can gain industry-recognized credentials through flexible online courses while continuing to work or manage other responsibilities. Merit America supports students with career coaching and job success teams, aiming to ensure employability and career advancement. The program is designed to be accessible with no upfront costs, allowing payment after securing employment, and it offers a supportive community of peers and alumni.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

📚 Education

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• As a Product Manager on our small but mighty team, you will be a key contributor and leader driving our product strategy and execution. • You will gain a deep understanding of our learners, our coaches, their user journeys, jobs-to-be-done and pain points. • You will make product investment recommendations and define OKRs in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team. • You will work with your engineering and design team members to define solutions, validate them, build them and measure their impact. • Through this work, you will help create the future Merit America experience for learners – economically and educationally disadvantaged folks – and coaches – Merit America employees interacting directly with learners to ensure their success in our training and job placement programs. • You will report to our Senior Product Manager, Kristin Li.

🎯 Requirements

• Mission driven work. Committed to Merit America’s mission to pave pathways to family-sustaining careers, break the poverty cycle, and create upward mobility for low-wage workers • Effective communicator and listener. You have excellent communication and listening skills when working closely with stakeholders and cross-functional team members, with successful experience building relationships, presenting a story, and incorporating received feedback • Organization and project management. You pay close attention to details, and you infallibly follow through in a timely manner. You have experience managing projects and driving them forward, and then learning from project outcomes to continuously improve • Independent self-starter. You are self-motivated and have a sense of deep personal responsibility for our collective, team success. You drive projects forward with minimal guidance, proactively seek help when deterred, and lean into hands-on testing of product functionality • Flexible in ambiguity. You are undeterred by the distinct challenges of a remote work environment + the ambiguity and constant change that comes with building a product in a growing startup, and are excited to join and support a diverse, talented, and dispersed team • Demonstrated history of embodying our values, which inform our work and drive our organization's culture • Shared sense of responsibility and ownership for our collective work in making a positive impact on the community we support, true to our value of Win & Lose Together • Committed to continuous learning and growth in understanding and addressing issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion • Passionate about fostering a workplace culture that embraces and values individual differences, aligned with our core value of inclusivity • Technical and design collaboration. You have experience successfully working closely with designers and engineers, and incorporating their technical and design feedback into your solutions. • Product experience. Strong understanding of design thinking and agile development best practices. Experience working directly on product experiences and setting product strategy based on user research.

🏖️ Benefits

• 4-day work week (Fridays are an operating day if there is a holiday closure during the week) • Medical, Dental and Vision insurance (100% Paid Employee Only Coverage) • Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account • Dependent care Flexible Spending Account • Health Reimbursement Account fully funded by Merit • Education & personal development reimbursement • Catalog of courses for professional learning and development • Short and long-term disability • Unlimited vacation (after a 90-day introductory period) • Paid Parental Leave and Adoption benefits (after 1 year of employment) • 11 federally recognized holidays • 1 week office closure in July (week of July 4th) • 2 week holiday office closure in December/January • 401(k) retirement plan with automatic Merit contribution • Wellness Benefits/Wellness Resources • Discount perks at work program • Phone/technology stipend • Home office setup stipend • Affinity groups and community building via virtual, in-person, and/or regional meetups