Product Manager - Team Lead - Mobile
Join the team transforming the way coaches and athletes interact.
* One of Outside Magazine's Best Places to Work for 6 years *
If you are interested in playing a role in designing and implementing innovative web app solutions for coaches and athletes then you have come to the right place. At TrainingPeaks we share a passion for creating the next best thing in the world of endurance training software and are looking for an experienced Product Manager - Team Lead to define and execute mobile strategy, reporting to the President and Director of Product.
Core Functions:
Exhibit strong servant leadership qualities, focusing on collaborative problem-solving and inclusive decision making within team
Use Agile and Lean techniques to break customer problems into iterative deliveries, focusing your team on steady cadence and continuous deployments while maintaining a healthy sustainable work-balance. Manage alpha and beta releases and customer feedback
Run all team ceremonies & meetings and welcome conflict within those, expertly facilitating exchange of ideas and resolutions; ultimately, you are the tiebreaker and final decision maker
Primary point of contact outside the team, responsible for working with stakeholders to gather the vision and continuously evolve it in an agile fashion, then communicating it into the team. Communicate progress, risks, opportunities to outside stakeholders striving to avoid surprises by maintaining a steady flow of customer value delivery
Improve product features at a detailed level with customer empathy as the Product Owner and gain a deep understanding of the business model and how the product supports revenue generation in order to always align feature development with company strategy
Own the final decision on feature development and quality of the delivered features and the business outcomes; delegate quality assurance work within team, managing a QA strategy based on company QA best practices and engineering principles, working with our data team to gather the right metrics. Work with other business leaders to continuously align execution to strategy and collaborate across business boundaries
Demonstrate intrinsic leadership in ambiguous, complex, human situations. Turn ambiguity, uncertainty, and risk into cohesive action based on a mindset of “knowing what needs to be done” through initiative, grit, and genuine care for the people and the business
Understand the core TrainingPeaks customers (coaches and athletes) and market and how the mobile platform addresses differing needs; use this understanding to define a clear mobile growth strategy
Responsible for prioritization of user stories within the team. Establish sustainable cadence and predictability of team flow. Progress tracking and schedule management through milestones, MVP, and confidence intervals
Collaborate with leadership and be able to articulate and communicate product vision and strategy
Identify room for continuous improvement in our High Maturity (Horizon 1) product portfolio through market research and data analytics working closely with our data team. You identify product requirements (customer problems, desired outcomes), discover and measure the appropriate metric, and apply agile principles to help the teams execute
Understand and work within the existing engineering agile process, to keep yourself and the teams accountable to the principles. Provide feedback, input, and eventually guidance on a strategic product development process, including helping to define growth horizons
Required Qualifications:
Experience as a product manager in the SaaS industry with proven results - able to show us numbers, walk us through initiatives, tell us a story of how you improved a product!
3-5 years Agile experience, as a ScrumMaster or Agile Coach.
Strong analytical problem solving skills, highly detail oriented, with Lean and Agile practice experience.
Strong people skills and are able to motivate teams through vision and communication.
Experience at the strategic level, helping with long-term road maps as well as product development process & frameworks.
Desired Qualifications:
Previous experience in Product Management position for 5-10 years
Experience as a strong software engineer, that has experienced technical debt and scaling problems.
Outdoors enthusiast or endurance athlete and have used TrainingPeaks in your own training.
For More Insight into This Role:
The Mobile team is a cross-functional, native iOS and Android development team responsible for full end-to-end delivery of the TrainingPeaks Mobile applications. The mobile applications are currently considered companion applications to the core Web application, as well as being further developed to provide full stand-alone value to athletes. As a leader of this team, you are responsible for working with strategic product leadership and the other team leads to define and execute a cohesive mobile strategy within the broader product strategy and company vision. The Team Lead runs a cross-functional, autonomous product development team focused on a clear business mission and is responsible for successful execution of a product vision by delivering incremental functionality to our customers.
Benefits and Perks Include:
100% company paid medical plan for employees with buy-up options as well as dental and vision insurance for employees (dependent coverage available)
$1,200/year fitness reimbursement to purchase any items related to healthy living
3 weeks of PTO for all new hires; increase in PTO at various years of service
4 week paid sabbatical for all employees after 7 years of employment
Stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks
Dog friendly office
Music Studio for all to practice, jam, and record
On-site workout area access: treadmill, bike trainers, rowers, and full weight lifting gym with CrossFit equipment, with changing rooms and showers and towel service
Corporate discounts on gym memberships and top-brand gear
Lynda.com subscription
Beautiful North East Boulder, CO location
- Flexible work schedule in a culture of trust
