Product Manager (India-based)

About Aspire

Aspire is a leading provider of influencer marketing software and services for social commerce at scale. Since 2014, Aspire has helped brands build and manage relationships with millions of influencers, inspiring marketers to think bigger, plan smarter, and deliver outsized value. Brands and creators use Aspire to find and vet each other, activate influencer marketing campaigns of any size, and put the magic of branded content to work at scale.

As a recognized leader by Forrester Research, Aspire has paid out over $100M to creators and is trusted by over 1,000 top brands from fashion to fitness and everything in between.

We’re growing across the board - and we're looking for a Product Manager to join our distributed remote Product team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager / Sr. Product Manager to join our product team in India to help lead Aspire through an exciting period of growth. As a Product Manager, you will define and contribute to the strategic vision and own the long-term roadmap for major suites of the product. You will use your customer obsession, product domain expertise, and ownership to lead products and teams through strategic and technical ambiguity to ultimate success. You will be responsible for aligning multiple teams and stakeholders, work closely with designers, engineers, marketing, and customer success and more to deliver value to our customers and business.

As Product Managers, we are responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle - from discovery to feature definition and prioritization, product messaging, go-to-market strategies. We are also responsible to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market and technical and business outcomes, communicating goals and KPIs, and desired outcomes. You have a proven track record of product management, experience driving strategy, and influencing executive leadership. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, approaches complex business questions with data and curiosity, is technically minded, and loves to dive below the surface to identify the root cause and help drive a path forward.

The role will report directly to the SVP of Product and Design.

What you'll be working on:

• Define the product direction and strategy for product areas you own
• Understand our customers, our products, and our competitors to identify needs & opportunities to advance our product and innovation.
• Lead your product team to design, build, and launch elegant features that solve customer problems.
• Own the end to end customer experience and be a constant bar raiser for improving and delivering excellent product solutions.
• Define clear product metrics and set ambitious targets for your team.
• Closely collaborate with our Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience teams to understand their needs and to ensure that your roadmap is addressing customer needs.

What we're looking for: *(Job Requirements/Must have) *

• 3+ years experience in a Product Manager role at SaaS companies
• Demonstrated ability to define a user-centric long-term strategy supported by clear tactics and milestones
• Strong UX/UI sensibility - a keen sense of design and bar for high quality UX and the impact it can have on customer outcomes.
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills. Excited by the idea of managing multiple responsibilities at once and ruthlessly prioritizing the highest impact work.
• An empathetic and attentive listener; someone who is committed to understanding and anticipating the needs of our customers and key stakeholders
• A proactive, self-starter; someone who can roll up their sleeves and solve problems on their own initiative.
• A data driven product manager who understands the right questions to ask and figures a path to get objective data to understand and inform the decisions we make.

Bonus Points:

• Work in a DTC (Direct to Consumer) experience or marketplace solutions would be a bonus - but not required.

Benefits and Perks

• Health, Dental & Vision
• Unlimited PTO - Refuel and rest with our unlimited paid time-off policy.

Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.