Product Strategy Manager

About the Role: 

As a Product Strategy Manager at Pangea you will be responsible for ensuring that we have well-researched and vetted product initiatives ready for the product development team to define, build and deliver.  This includes identifying new opportunities through funnel analyses, competitive assessment & qualitative research and quantifying impact using customer surveys, researched benchmarks and compelling business cases.  You will also vet key assumptions and blockers to ensure there is a clear path to execution.  You should be intensely curious, a customer advocate, highly quantitative, value rigor and be an excellent written and verbal communicator.

As Product Strategy Manager, you’ll get to:

• Identify and evaluate new product opportunities through competitive assessment, customer research and quantitative analysis
• Develop a structured roadmap of key hypotheses to validate
• Effectively communicate product strategy to executives and the Product Development team
• Run quantitative focus groups and qualitative research to validate key assumptions and product/market fit of new product opportunities
• Be the in-house expert on our customers, product offerings, industry happenings and competition

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of consumer-facing Product Management, Product Strategy/Analytics or Management Consulting experience in a product-focused company or role.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence others
• An entrepreneurial mindset and propensity to get out of the building to find answers
• Be able to chart out clarity from ambiguity
• Deep understanding of how customers interact with digital products
• Experience working with teams in a fast-paced, iterative environment 
• Experience taking customer insights and translating them product experiences
• Ability to communicate qualitative and quantitative results clearly, succinctly, and confidently to an executive audience
• Analytical mindset for quantitative analysis to mine product opportunities
• Prior experience with customer research or segmentation preferred