Associate Product Manager, Listings

At Yext, the product team leads all aspects of the entire product development lifecycle. We work closely with customers and partners to understand their problems and invent solutions; we work with UI/UX designers to build new intuitive, usable product features; we work with engineering to build features and manage prioritization; and we work with sales and marketing to launch and promote new products and features. As an Associate Product Manager, you will assist with every aspect of this process. APMs will focus on and eventually own a single product area under the direction of a senior member of the product team.
What You’ll Do

• Investigate and analyze requests from customers, partners, and internal collaborators, design features to solve these problems, and drive their implementation.
• Contribute to company-level product planning and execution by developing concepts into specs, evaluating them, and participating to build a strategic product roadmap.
• Work closely with UI/UX designers to craft new features, providing an intuitive and flexible user experience.
• Manage large engineering projects by collaborating with engineering leaders and advising on prioritization.
• Follow industry trends through complementary and competitive product exploration, partner meetings, conference attendance, and investigation of new technology
• Coordinate feature launches, including orchestrating testing, documentation, training, rollout sequencing, customer communication, and adoption measurement
• Help build sales and marketing materials for new features, as well as enable the rest of the company on selling and servicing new features.
• Conduct data-driven analysis of product features and customer data using tools such as Excel, Tableau, SQL, and Python.
• Write guides, training, and other public documentation for product features.

What You Have

• BA/BS in Computer Science or a similar field, or similar college level education.
• Ability to learn sophisticated systems and technical concepts quickly, ask the right questions, and be extremely curious.
• Self-sufficient and able to work with minimal direction. Ability to decide what to do without being told what to do.
• Extremely strong written and verbal communication. Ability to tailor communication style to different audiences, ranging from customers to engineers to C-Suite executives.
• Time-management skills. Ability to juggle multiple projects and synthesize requests from many different partners.
• Technical proficiency. Ability and willingness to learn new technical concepts ranging from front-end development to database design to machine learning.
• Data-driven mentality. Experience working with databases, statistics, and machine learning is a plus.
• The ability to code is not required but is a plus. Most relevant frameworks/languages include Javascript, Typescript, Python, SQL, and React.

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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.