Senior Product Manager

Karbon is looking for an experienced Product Manager to take a new initiative from concept to market launch and beyond. You will work on everything from market analysis, design, build to go to market activities. We want you to have a passion for SaaS products and be willing to roll up your sleeves and build this new product with high autonomy. This is an office-based role at our new office on Pitt Street.

Overview of Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the business and product, and drive a vision for your aspect of the Product roadmap.
• Continuously collaborate with Karbon customers and stakeholders to understand pain points, opportunities and requirements.
• Analyse user needs and feedback.
• Analysis of data to understand user behaviour and success metrics.
• Follow our competitors and the industry, understand the market and contribute Product ideas.
• Champion the backlog of small-sized customer requests into Sprints.
• Assess value, develop use cases, and prioritize features, epics, stories and themes to ensure work is aligned with product strategy.
• Ensure that your sprint team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on.
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.
• Run the Sprint retrospectives.
• Ensure the final product is user-centric, whilst considering the efficiency of delivery and business needs.
• Ensure Quality Assurance testing of bugs and features.
• Report bugs and errors to the development team and aid in their successful resolution.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships both within the development team and the wider organisation.

Reports to

• Chief Product Officer

Direct Reports

• none

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a Product Management role delivering high-quality solutions
• Entrepreneurial mindset and passionate about building great products that meet our customer’s needs
• Experience working on SaaS apps that target businesses or consumers
• Driven to understand customer insights and champion their voice
• Analytical skills and desire to dig into the data to understand user behaviour and success metrics
• Ability to create roadmaps backed by solid business cases
• Ownership of the product lifecycle from requirements gathering through design, development, and release
• Champion the backlog of small-sized customer requests into Sprints
• Contribute to sprint planning by balancing features, continuous improvement tasks, tech debt and bugs
• Be a team player who is able to establish rapport, credibility, and trust throughout the organization at all levels

This position description is intended merely as a guideline of the responsibilities involved in the position. The employee is expected to perform any other duties as reasonably required by their Manager.

Why work at Karbon?

• Gain global experience across USA, New Zealand, UK, and Canada
• 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a year
• Flexible working environment
• Work with (and learn from) an experienced, high-performing team
• Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within
• A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development, and provides consistent feedback
• Generous parental leave