Product Manager

Company Description

Assent is the leading solution for supply chain sustainability tailored for the world’s top-tier, sustainability-driven manufacturers. Hidden risks riddle supply chains, many of which weren't built with sustainability in mind. That's where we step in. With insights from experts, Assent is the tool manufacturers trust for comprehensive sustainability.

We are proud to announce that Assent has crossed the US$100M ARR milestone, granting us Centaur Status. This accomplishment, reached just 8 years following our Series A, makes us the first and only Certified B Corporation in North America's SaaS sustainability industry to celebrate this milestone.

Our journey from $5 million to US$100M ARR in just eight years has been marked by significant growth and achievements. With our $350 million US funding led by Vista Equity Partners, we're poised for even greater expansion and are on the lookout for outstanding team members to join our mission.

Hybrid Work Model

At Assent, we proudly embrace a remote-first work model, valuing the flexibility and autonomy it provides our team. We also acknowledge the intangible benefits of occasional in-person workdays. For team members situated within 50 kms / 31 miles of our five global offices in Ottawa, Eldoret, Penang, Columbus, Pune and Amsterdam, you can expect to come into the office at least one day a week. Similarly, those near our co-working spaces in Nairobi and Toronto are encouraged to work onsite once a month.

Job Description

The Product Manager (PDM) role is instrumental in guiding Assent's product evolution. Embracing a continuous discovery approach, this role demands deep engagement with customers and users, leveraging insights to shape product strategy and execution. The Product Manager will lead through empowerment, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration across internal teams to deliver solutions that meet and exceed expectations. This role demands a balance of technical savvy, strategic insight, and a deep commitment to user-centric principles, driving the product forward through informed, collaborative, data-driven decision-making.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities

• Collaborate directly with Engineering and Design team members to produce working software solutions
• Lead team collaboration activities in alignment with established practices
• Document collaboration outcomes in alignment with established standards
• Work closely with Senior Product Managers to translate their value-driven feature outcomes into actionable bodies of work (Epics and Stories) for the Delivery Team
• Understand customer needs, market trends, and potential technological advancements;
• Regularly engage with customers, conduct user research, and validate hypotheses through experiments;
• Work closely with your product Delivery Team, with product management focusing on value and viability, product design leading on usability and engineering representing the feasibility perspective;
• Manage individual products or specific product features, develop and execute the product roadmap based on market data and insights;
• Advocate for and implement continuous delivery practices to ensure rapid and reliable product releases;
• Focus on delivering value to customers through iterative development and learning;
• Utilize data and analytics to inform product decisions, measure success, and adapt strategies based on actionable insights and performance metrics;
• Ensure that business objectives are still being met, when dealing with unforeseen change during delivery of scope;
• Maintain knowledge of new trends and products in the market and in adjacent products;
• Collaborate with and support internal groups to help launch products and features;
• Contribute to the correlation of product definitions and market needs;
• Collaborate with regulatory, marketing and sales to define solutions and understand market;
• Contribute to product launch activities, and monitor product metrics

Qualifications

We strongly value your talent, energy and passion. It will also be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications

Additional Information

Life at Assent

Wellness : We believe that you and your family’s well being is important. As a result, we offer vacation time that increases with tenure, comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country), life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits : It’s not all about the money – well, it’s a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary, a corporate bonus program, retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent : There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options, volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning : At Assent, curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent, we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included, valued, and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included, treated with dignity and respect, promoted on their merits, and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

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