Sr. Product Manager, Advanced Search
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At PitchBook, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We're deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there's going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We're willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.

About the Role:

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other's words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth, and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!

PitchBook is an emerging private equity data provider for investors and companies. We empower them to make informed decisions that keep their investment strategies and portfolios relevant. We lead and pride ourselves on providing a user-friendly platform that sets the standard and makes private equity data easy to discover and use.

The Core Experience – Advanced Search team at PitchBook is on a mission to provide robust and efficient screener experiences that enables users to accurately discover and analyze comprehensive private and public market data to surface relevant insights to inform their decisions. We are looking for a big thinker and customer obsessed Senior Product Manager to improve user visit experiences to drive more visits among PitchBook users. With your proven technical product expertise and passion for great end-user experiences, you will drive innovation, developing new experiences and leveraging new technologies that differentiate PitchBook in the private equity data market. You will create and own a product strategy that delivers tangible results that will ultimately better the experience for end-users to find and discover insights that inform their investment strategies.

Senior Product Managers at PitchBook serve both as strategists and as leaders. You will be the subject matter expert (SME) and go-to resource for your portfolio across PitchBook. You will get to work collaboratively with key stakeholders and project teams to execute initiatives for the Core Experience – Screeners product roadmap. You will be the champion for our clients, and you will have the opportunity to drive awareness of their pain points and identify business opportunities across the organization. You will also have the chance to mentor team members within the Product organization.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap to increase adoption and engagement of PitchBook products among users
• Identify opportunities for product innovation and differentiation by working backwards from the customer journey
• Manage the product lifecycle from ideation to launch to end-of-life
• Keep up with rapidly evolving technologies like Machine Learning, AI, and Natural Language Search (NLS) to ensure our Core Experience – Advanced Search products meet the needs of our customers and are delivered quickly to capture user feedback and insights to learn and iterate
• Collaborate with design, engineering, data science, and adjacent product teams to ensure the Advanced Search products scale and provide meaningful impact to end-users
• Actively define product roadmap prioritization and create business cases for new opportunities
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field
• 5+ years of experience as product manager for a B2C or B2B web or mobile
• 5+ years product management experience creating product strategy, roadmaps, aligning stakeholders, and setting product vision
• 5+ years of experience managing technically complex products that include front-end CX, AI, machine learning, search solutions, recommendations, or related fields
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with cross-functional and executive level leaders
• Self-directed: sets and meets deadlines, multi-tasks, and prioritizes
• Strong bias for action
• Willingness to roll-up sleeves and do what is necessary to meet team goals
• Ability to leverage tools (SQL, MixPanel, FullStory) to quickly access and analyze data to drive product decision making
• Experience influencing senior leadership through data driven insights preferred
• 3+ year experience working with AI/ML technologies preferred

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:

Physical Health

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Additional medical wellness incentives
• STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance

Emotional Health

• Paid sabbatical program after four years
• Paid family and paternity leave
• Annual educational stipend
• Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
• CFA exam stipend
• Robust training programs on industry and soft skills
• Employee assistance program
• Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days

Social Health

• Matching gifts program
• Employee resource groups
• Subsidized emergency childcare
• Dependent Care FSA
• Company-wide events
• Employee referral bonus program
• Quarterly team building events

Financial Health

• 401k match
• Shared ownership employee stock program
• Monthly transportation stipend

*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.

Compensation

• Annual base salary: $150,000-$170,000
• Target annual bonus percentage: 10%

*Starting pay will be based on several factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. We also have a location-based compensation structure; there may be different ranges for candidates by location.

Working Conditions:

We believe our business and our culture are strongest when we work together in person. We also know that it's helpful to have some flexibility to work remotely. Most roles work in the office 3+ days/week, and some are expected to work in the office 4-5 days/week. The current expectation for this role is that you are working in the office 3+ days/week and that you are in the office full-time during the training period, for which the length varies by role. During an initial phone screen, the team will discuss expectations for this specific position.

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.

Life At PB:

We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and our culture is at the heart of our success. It's our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we've heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community.

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

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