Senior Product Manager - Guild Grow

Senior Product Manager, Guild Grow Guild is bridging the gap between education and career opportunity. 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 remote role requires availability in one 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. The role includes occasional travel to Denver and other locations as needed. Responsibilities 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. Compensation & Benefits We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $160,000 – $200,000 and stock options. Benefits include: access to low‑cost, high‑quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (Kaiser available in CA & CO), 401(k) plan, vacation policy, 8 days of fully‑paid sick leave, family‑friendly benefits (12 weeks of parental leave for non‑birthing parents, 18–20 weeks for birthing parents, and a 2‑week ramp‑up period after extended leave), employer‑paid short‑term and long‑term disability, employer‑sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits, well‑rounded wellness benefits (free and low‑cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services), education benefits and tuition assistance for future development and growth. EEO Statement Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Guild is a female‑founded, certified B Corp. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class in accordance with applicable laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr Guild