Automattic
Senior Product Manager, CMS
Automattic
$100k - $165k
Worldwide (Remote)

Senior Product Manager, CMS

Overview

Automattic is seeking a senior product manager to work on content management products for large organizations, empowering customers to create connections through the power of content.

Job Description

WordPress VIP, the enterprise division of Automattic, is the world’s leading content management platform. Our goal is to bring the ease and agility of WordPress to the world’s largest companies. We work with customers like Salesforce, Facebook, CNN, Slack, Time, Capgemini and hundreds more to create innovative digital experiences and give them the key insights they need to be sure that their content reaches its potential.

Responsibilities

  • - Deeply understand our customers’ needs, pains, joys, frustrations, and their job to be done
  • - Work with executives and engineering directors to align on product strategy and vision
  • - Collaborate with your partners in a cross-functional team, including engineers and designers, to define solutions which delight our customers, helping them make progress against their outcomes
  • - Effectively communicate with business and product team members to focus a motivated, smart team on the most impactful opportunities
  • - Use qualitative and quantitative measures to determine the impact of the solution

Required Skills

  • - Outcome-oriented. You know your job does not end once a feature has shipped. You measure the success of your work based on results
  • - Customer-obsessed. You have empathy for customer needs and a desire to serve those needs through technology
  • - Iteratively-inclined. You know how to break down a problem or project into small pieces, test assumptions, and ship solutions incrementally and thoughtfully
  • - Industry-aware. You understand the content creation industry, and have opinions on the market and where it’s headed
  • - Naturally curious. Your inquisitive nature drives you to delve into disparate areas of technology and human behavior, bringing new insights from unrelated disciplines and topics
  • - Experience with enterprise product management, particularly with CMS/software platforms
  • - Customer research and needs analysis
  • - Cross-functional team leadership and stakeholder management
  • - Data analytics for measuring product impact
  • - Track record of product strategy development and execution
  • - Iterative product development experience

Benefits

  • - Fully-remote company
  • - Open vacation policy
  • - Compensation philosophy reflecting potential contribution and impact

About the company

We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.