Our Job of the Week column this week features an opening for a Product Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax.
Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.
The Job of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.
Here are excerpts from this week’s posting:
Halifax
Dash Hudson
The world's most important companies use Dash Hudson to create and share photos and videos that people care about. Brands like Condé Nast, Apple, Sephora, and Home Depot use Dash Hudson daily to make every interaction on social meaningful.
Our visual marketing software surfaces actionable insights for Instagram and Pinterest. Dash Hudson equips brands with the tools and data they need to build deeper relationships with online consumers, maximize social ROI, and streamline scheduling and reporting processes. We take it to the next level with AI technology that helps marketers make better decisions, faster.
THE OPPORTUNITY
A Product manager at Dash Hudson is responsible for setting a product vision and strategy for their defined area of expertise. They are able to work independently conducting proper research, qualitative and quantitative, to ultimately distill meaningful outcomes from many information sources. They will work to uncover customer problems worth solving, gaps in the market worth filling and articulate the importance and strategy for these to the larger product team. Not only will they be able to define problems, they are quick design-thinkers that can get their ideas and solutions on paper and articulate the business value behind their thinking. PMs are comfortable outlining the requirements and critical path for their features and are able to iterate or remove ideas and features that prove to be insufficient during the process, all with the understanding of how their work fits into the larger product picture at Dash Hudson.
Broadly, we are looking for someone who operates independently, can lead the work of a product development team and is ready to be responsible for a dedicated product or customer journey. They are confident making decisions, even with little information, as well as providing their support and reasoning for those decisions. The person we are looking for is a strong multi-tasker that can work on different products/features that are in different build stages at the same time. Because of their strong knowledge of the customer, their domain, and the market, their expertise can be relied on to make decisions quickly.
Responsibilities
- Set a product vision and strategy for your set of products and features.
- Take an idea from problem definition to launch.
- Communicate user stories, product requirements, and the business importance of a feature with all stakeholders involved in the product process.
- Be able to ideate and come up with potential solutions prior to involving other stakeholders in your discovery process- flex your design thinking skills.
- Process, review, and understand customer usage patterns to uncover new product insights.
- Gather and organize feedback from customer-facing teams to help guide product roadmap decisions.
- Maintain the idea backlog for future feature consideration.
- Execute quality assurance testing pre-launch to ensure product design and functionality requirements are met.
- Ensure smooth launch and support of new features cross-functionally.
- Define and monitor success metrics pre and post product launch.
Qualifications
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment.
- Hyper-organized and detail-oriented with a high expectation of quality.
- Highly ambitious, self-starting, and self-motivating with the ability to jump into any conversation and work collaboratively across all teams at DH.
- Experience in Product Management is preferred.
- Experience in SaaS or a start-up environment preferred.
- Successfully manage and execute on multiple projects at one time.
- Strong critical thinker.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills. . . .
