Product Manager

The **Product Manager** role with Minerva is a full-time remote role, with occasional (quarterly) in-person opportunities to meet and get to know the rest of your team.

**Role Overview**:
**Responsibilities**
- **Product Strategy**: Develop and refine the product vision and strategy, considering market trends, customer feedback, and business objectives.
- **Product Development**: Lead cross-functional product development teams throughout the product lifecycle, from concept to launch, and ongoing enhancements.
- **Market Research**: Conduct market research to identify customer needs, competition, and opportunities for product improvement.
- **Roadmap Creation**: Develop and maintain a product roadmap that aligns with the company’s strategic goals and prioritizes feature development.
- **Requirement Gath**ering: Collaborate with stakeholders, including customers, to define and document detailed product requirements.
- **Feature Prioritization**: Prioritize features and enhancements based on a deep understanding of customer needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
- **User Experience (UX)**: Ensure a seamless and user-friendly product experience through collaboration with UX/UI designers and the research efforts surrounding this work.
- **Release Management**:Plan and manage product releases, including coordination with development and testing teams.
- **Analytics and KPIs**: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess product performance, and use data-driven insights to make informed decisions.
- **Customer Feedback**: Collect and analyze customer feedback to continuously improve the product and address issues promptly.
- **Competitive Analysis**: Stay up to date with industry trends and competitors to maintain a competitive edge.
- **Stakeholder Communication**: Communicate product updates and strategy to internal and external stakeholders, including executives, sales, marketing, and support teams.

**About You**:

- Customer-centric mindset.
- You are a fan of iterative development, working with customers as well as cross-functional teams to hypothesize, plan, execute, measure impact, and learn in order to iterate on future roadmap plans.
- You enjoy building products that are easy to adopt and use.
- You are always looking for ways to improve.

**Ideal Background**:

- A minimum of 5-7 years experience as a Product Manager in the SaaS industry
- Strong understanding of SaaS product and software development lifecycle.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- A strong passion for listening to customers and delivering outstanding user experiences.
- Strong quantitative analysis skills, including market sizing analysis, business case definition and competitive analysis.
- Ability to work effectively and coordinate people and activities across cross-functional teams, with strong capabilities in communication and interfacing between Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success teams..
- Experience with project management and product management tools (Jira, Notion or similar)
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies.

**About Minerva**:
Minerva’s culture is built on saying what we mean, meaning what we say and being impeccable with our word. We are responsible for our words and actions and its impact on others. There is no room for disrespect and discrimination, but infinite room for diversity and daring. We like our policies, processes and procedures tight and to the point. We always ask ‘what problem are we trying to solve before we create solutions?’. Our value is measured by the efficiency and efficacy with which our clients can identify and disrupt financial predators.

Join us to help shape Minerva’s product initiatives as we strengthen and grow the industry overall. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in an early-stage startup, where your strategic thinking and operational excellence will be highly valued.

**Benefits**:

- We offer competitive overall compensation which includes base annual salaries, benefits, and employee stock options.
- We believe strongly in ensuring that our team benefits together with the growth of the company, and will reward those who take these first steps with us to scale the company toward our larger vision.
- Unlimited vacation (4 weeks minimum) and time off‍ when you need to recharge
- 100% Remote, but available coworking access in our Toronto space or in a co-working space convenient for you
- Small team = lots of autonomy to make an impact
- Being able to make a real impact on financial crime prevention