Associate Product Manager

Yext Associate Product Managers design and innovate our ground-breaking Knowledge Engine. We meet customers, design product improvements, work closely with partners, drive software projects, and manage launches. Our role is highly cross-functional - we are constantly presented with opportunities to learn new things and have a big impact throughout our business. We encourage outstanding individuals interested in having a key role at a great company to apply for this challenging and rewarding position!
What You’ll Do

• Meet with current and prospective customers to understand their needs to drive product planning
• Follow industry trends through exploring complementary and competitive products, meeting with partners, attending conferences, and investigating new technologies
• Contribute to company-level product planning by developing concepts into specs, evaluating them, and participating as we build a strategic product roadmap
• Generate, gather, and coordinate ideas for features and improvements for the Yext local marketing cloud, prioritize feature requests, and maintain part of the roadmap
• Investigate and analyze requests from customers, partners, and internal stakeholders, design solutions for them, and drive their implementation
• Design product enhancements and communicate designs orally, through diagrams, and through PRDs
• Facilitate software development projects, working with our design team, engineering team, and other stakeholders
• Coordinate feature launches, including orchestrating testing, documentation, training rollout sequencing, customer communication, and adoption measurement
• Work with partner companies to explore and drive business development initiatives
• Serve as a resource for other employees who have product questions, feature requests, and other needs
• Present current and future capabilities to both internal and external audiences

What You Have

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or similar college level education
• Product mindset - inclination and ability to envision a product and then marshal and drive resources to realize that vision
• Flexible, fast learner who thrives in a constantly changing work environment
• Able to generate creative, simple solutions to complex problems
• Ability to quickly understand, reason about, and fluently discuss existing and proposed software systems
• Excellent writing and presentation skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to work efficiently in a collaborative team environment
• Works well under pressure
• Effective time-management skills and the ability to balance multiple projects
• Solid work ethic

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The base salary at the time of hire for this position is expected to be between $98,550-$180,000. Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee’s job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the above-referenced range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits, and successful candidates may also be eligible for equity (stock) based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.