Senior Product Manager - Guild Grow

Senior Product Manager - Guild Grow

At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.

As a Senior Product Manager for Guild Grow, you will be a key product leader responsible for driving the success of the Grow Learner Experience within Guild's Grow product line. This role supports Guild's mission of expanding access to education and skilling benefits worldwide by delivering high-impact, high-outcome learner-centered solutions that align to enterprise talent needs.

You will partner closely with engineering, design, data, and go-to-market teams to define product strategy, lead discovery, and ensure strong execution. This role requires fluency in AI-enabled product management, using AI tooling to accelerate discovery, decision-making, and execution—including rapidly prototyping and testing product ideas. Reporting to a product leader, you will balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, owning outcomes for your product area while contributing to broader Grow objectives.

This role is remote, with occasional travel to Denver and other locations as needed.

Responsibilities

Product Impact and Stakeholder Collaboration

• Build strong working relationships with cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders to align on goals and priorities.
• Synthesize input from customers, employer partners, internal teams, and data to inform product decisions.
• Identify risks, trade-offs, and dependencies within your product area and proactively surface them to partners and leaders.
• Contribute to a collaborative product culture through clear communication and shared accountability.

Product Strategy and Discovery

• Own the strategy and roadmap for a defined product area within Guild Grow, aligned with company and product-line goals.
• Lead discovery efforts to deeply understand customer needs, pain points, and opportunities.
• Translate insights into clear product requirements, hypotheses, and success metrics.
• Use data, experimentation, and customer feedback to iterate and improve product outcomes.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for incremental and step-change improvements within your domain.

Product Execution and Delivery

• Partner with engineering and design to plan, prioritize, and deliver high-quality product increments.
• Manage backlog, scope, and trade-offs to ensure timely and impactful delivery.
• Track progress, dependencies, and risks, adjusting plans as needed.
• Support continuous improvement in team delivery practices and execution quality.
• Help resolve execution challenges within your product area, escalating when necessary.

Technical Product Management

• Develop strong domain knowledge across your product area and its supporting systems.
• Collaborate with engineering on technical design decisions and trade-offs.
• Use data analysis to monitor product performance, diagnose issues, and identify opportunities.
• Contribute to improvements in scalability, reliability, and maintainability within your scope.

AI-Enabled Product Management

• Demonstrate fluency in using AI tooling to accelerate core product management workflows, including research synthesis, documentation, analysis, and planning.
• Build and iterate on lightweight prototypes (e.g., workflows, mockups, or functional demos) using AI-assisted tools to explore and communicate product ideas.
• Apply sound judgment when using AI, ensuring outputs are accurate, ethical, and aligned with customer and business needs.

Communication

• Communicate product vision, priorities, and progress clearly to cross-functional partners.
• Create concise narratives and artifacts (PRDs, roadmaps, updates) that enable alignment and decision-making.
• Tailor communication style and depth to different audiences, including leadership and delivery teams.

Learning, Growth, and Team Contribution

• Serve as a strong product partner and role model within the product organization.
• Share learnings, best practices, and feedback with peers.
• Support the development of more junior product managers through collaboration and informal mentorship.
• Continuously develop your own product craft and domain expertise.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of product management experience, ideally in B2B, enterprise SaaS, or platform products.
• Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy and execution for a defined product area.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through discovery, delivery, and iteration.
• Strong customer empathy and data-informed decision-making skills.
• Solid technical fluency and comfort partnering closely with engineering.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve productivity and speed across product management workflows.
• Comfort building quick prototypes or concept artifacts using AI-assisted tools to validate ideas and drive alignment.
• Clear, effective communicator with the ability to influence without authority.
• Experience in benefits, payments, education, or global products is a plus but not required.