Product Manager, Discovery

About Us

IZEA Worldwide, Inc. ("IZEA") is a marketing technology company providing software and professional services that enable brands to collaborate and transact with the full spectrum of today's top social influencers and content creators.

The company serves as a champion for the growing Creator Economy, enabling individuals to monetize their content, creativity, and influence. IZEA launched the industry's first-ever influencer marketing platform in 2006 and has since facilitated nearly 4 million transactions between online buyers and sellers.

Leading brands and agencies partner with IZEA to increase digital engagement, diversify brand voice, scale content production, and drive highly-measurable return on investment.

Candidate Location

IZEA’s workforce is currently 100% remote and the ideal candidate thrives with the freedom and flexibility this structure provides.

Due to this being a work-from-home opportunity, it is posted in multiple locations. However, there is currently only one opening.

Product Manager Overview

We are looking for a product manager to focus on our Discovery product. You can learn more about us and watch our latest streaming event .

As a Product Manager, you will monitor the behaviors and expectations of our users and partner with Marketing to identify high-value user segments. You will help define and prioritize customer needs, distill those needs into actionable work, get buy-in for your initiatives, set KPIs and goals and track progress toward them, and be responsible for delivering the best possible user experience to our customers. You will have direct access to end-users and stakeholders, and you are encouraged to build and leverage these relationships in your work.

Aside from the day to day, we can offer you incredible benefits including an annual continuing education budget, a trust-focused team, a flexible and collaborative work environment where balance matters, stock ownership, and an annual company retreat.

The team strives to be ego-free and motivated only by building amazing software for our users. We seek to understand the "why" behind the "what". We regularly break out into small teams to tackle problems, learn new technologies, or just share what we know with others. We test our code and invest in the health of our systems. We push each other, learn from each other, and strive to continually grow.

Essential Functions

• Have a deep understanding of our users, their needs and experiences across our products to use data, market knowledge and industry best practices to define our strategy for both adoption and retention.
• Partner with cross functional teams to implement innovative solutions to iteratively improve the user experience and achieve identified strategic KPIs
• Define product KPIs and data-driven strategies for tracking product success or failure with input from stakeholders
• Analyze the impact of strategic growth initiatives, define and report on KPIs and present recommendations to executive stakeholders
• Communicate directly with customers and/or internal users to understand different user profiles, use cases, and product(s) requirements, and how these requirements can and be integrated with the overall IZEAx ecosystem and workflows
• Define and execute an iterative implementation strategy with a minimally viable set of requirements and planned downstream features, with input from stakeholders, Customer Success, Design, Engineering, and QA
• Manage and facilitate your team’s progress by clearing blockers, answering questions, making decisions, and maintaining status tracking efforts to ensure that work is progressing continually and on track with estimated delivery goals
• Maintain open feedback loops with users, stakeholders, and C-level executives to communicate and demo progress, catch issues early, and ensure that efforts are advancing in line with expectations
• Advocate for and champion your team by encouraging their shared ownership and understanding of the product(s) and their workflows, listening and considering bottom-up input, and sharing and celebrating successes
• Continually identifying and proposing novel solutions to user friction points and opportunities for new features that delight and bring value to users
• Define and communicate product timelines and launch plans necessary to bring your product or feature(s) to market.
• Triage and prioritize initiatives with stakeholders, Customer Success, Design, Engineering, and QA such that user requirements, business impact, and implementation efforts are balanced and optimized. You’re responsible for maintaining your product roadmap and communicating frequent status updates to stakeholders.
  
  

Experience, Qualifications & Requirements

• 2+ years of product management experience
• Prior marketplace experience
• A passion for our industry and the problems we’re solving
• Self-motivated and the ability to thrive is a fast moving environment
• A team player who shares knowledge and information with others and loves to collaborate
• Previous experience leading cross-functional software teams as your team will consist of software engineers, product designers, and QA
• Technical experience enabling you to effectively engage in conversations with our Engineering team in order to understand effort, tradeoffs and architecture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting to executive audiences
• Ability to multitask, balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• A solid understanding of agile methodologies, scrum framework and previous work on agile teams
  
  

The Following Qualifications Will Be Highly Valued

• Experience with Google Analytics, Mouseflow or other analytics tools
• Familiarity with Google Data Studio, SQL
• Prior experience in a role leading existing products or strategies from conception to implementation
• A genuine excitement for storyboarding and decomposing effort
  

Why Would You Want to Work Here?

The act of hiring is not simply to up the headcount or to fill a seat quickly. When we hire at IZEA, it’s to add to our strong existing roster of talent and choose the right individual to impact, collaborate, commit, inspire, and grow alongside our tenured teams.

IZEA has been ranked a ‘Top Place to Work’ by the Orlando Sentinel for the past 4 years and has been recognized as a Deloitte “Fast 500” honoree for the past 2 years. We take great pride in creating a positive work environment for all our employees - from our investment in team member ongoing education, to the ability to influence real change across our business - we are dedicated to your long-term growth and success.

At IZEA, you have an opportunity to make an impact on a global scale. IZEA connects leading brands with a network of over 850,000 opt-in creators ranging from YouTube stars to mommy bloggers and everyone in-between. We are the pioneers fueling the democratization of information, entertainment, marketing, and commerce. Our platforms fuel the burgeoning Creator Economy, filled with the next generation of artists, poets, filmmakers, photographers, thought leaders, comics, actors, and musicians. What you do here will impact hundreds of thousands of people directly and influence the actions of millions more.

We provide an open, flexible workplace that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. IZEA places value on action and results. We seek individuals that thrive in a challenging and fast-evolving work environment. While the company is over 14 years old, our executives remain active player-coaches -- they roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty by working side-by-side with our team members across all levels of seniority to accomplish our common goals. IZEA is focused on promoting an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate the different viewpoints and experiences our diverse group of team members bring to our company.

If you are the very best at what you do and seeking an opportunity to attack the “never been done before” with a passionate team of dreamers and doers, we encourage you to apply.

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