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Weedmaps

Senior Product Manager (Search & Discovery) (Hybrid)

Weedmaps, Austin, Texas, us, 78716

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Overview Product Management at Weedmaps is responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap in order to realize our mission of being the hub for all things cannabis. As a Product Manager focused on Search and Discovery, your number one goal is to ensure we have the absolute best search experience for customers. You will have a combination of best in class geo tech, AI, and ML at your disposal to maximize our ability to help customers find the products they are looking for. As our content types evolve, this Product Manager will be critical for ensuring we can surface this content in the right ways at the right times in the customer's journey.

Additionally, you should have a proven ability to build relationships and influence across the organization at all levels, as well as superior communication and presentation skills.

The impact you'll make

Define a roadmap that achieves a world-class Search and Discovery experience

Own the Core Search Algorithms that power our search results across the B2C experience

Translate Business Goals and Customer needs into a logically sequenced and optimized product roadmap

Maintain and prioritize a backlog and ensure that new features and enhancements are validated and clearly specified

Lead a cross-functional team to implement the product vision efficiently

Monitor adoption, usage and revenue impact of new products and features and report on release impact as necessary

Collaborate with product, program and engineering leaders across the organization to guide the platform roadmap pinpointing new requirements, features, and policies

Oversee enterprise-level product planning including identifying new opportunities as well as incorporating a rolling roadmap of business projects and technology initiatives

Write complete and detail-oriented product requirements documents and ensuring clear communication of those requirements to the business, design, usability and development teams

Engage with customers through a variety of channels and serve as the voice of the customer internally

Strive to deliver high-quality technology products/services in a very high growth environment where priorities and structures shift rapidly.

What you've accomplished

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

4+ years product management experience in a technological industry

Deep data background using self service analytics tooling (mixpanel, amplitude, heap, etc)

Experience working with ML based search models or platforms

2+ years experience in consumer-facing online commerce, point-of-sale, or marketplace

4+ years experience owning a Search Tech Stack and Platform

Bonus Points

Strong strategic aptitude; proven ability to define a winning business strategy and product roadmap

Excellent customer experience intuition; demonstrated success in creating innovative and user-friendly websites and customer-facing features

Excellent communication and persuasion skills; demonstrated success building buy-in for an innovative and bold vision

Strong analytical and quantitative skills; strong bias towards data-based decision making and comfort with pro-forma financial and operational analysis

Implementation orientation; demonstrated ability to translate strategic differentiators into innovative and detailed product requirements

Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members

Proven ability to make smart feature (customer experience) versus time-to-market trade-offs; experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions and assertions of business value

Nimbleness and comfort with ambiguity; comfort responding quickly to rapidly evolving threats and opportunities

Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams through influence versus direct management; excellent interpersonal skills

Experience managing agile software development with scrum preferred

The base pay range for this position is $153,750.00 - $168,100.00 per year.

Benefits for Full‑Time, Regular Employees

Employee - employer paid premium 100%

Company contribution to a HSA when electing the High Deductible Health Plan

For plans that offer coverage to your dependents, you pay a small contribution

Free access to CALM app for employees and dependents

Employee Training

Mental Health seminars and Q&A sessions

Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000

401(k) Retirement Plan (with employer match contribution)

Generous PTO, Paid Sick Leave, and Company Holidays

Supplemental, voluntary benefits

Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings - including a company contribution

FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)

Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance

Critical Illness Insurance

Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance

Pet Insurance

Family planning/fertility

Identity theft protection

Legal access to a network of attorneys

Paid parental leave

Generous PTO and company holidays

Why Work at Weedmaps?

You get to work at the leading technology company in the cannabis industry

You get to play a meaningful role in helping to advance cannabis causes, including helping improve the lives of patients who rely on the benefits of cannabis

You get to shape the future of the cannabis industry

You get to work on challenging issues in a collaborative environment that encourages you to do your best

You get to work in a casual and fun environment; no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!

Numerous opportunities and tools to learn and grow your professional skills

Endless opportunities to network and connect with other Weedmappers through speaker series, Employee Resource Groups, happy hours, team celebrations, game nights, and much more!

Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that any of those characteristics may be present. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, please visit https://www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

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About Weedmaps WM Technology, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: MAPS) mission is to power a transparent and inclusive global cannabis economy. Now in its second decade, WM Technology has been a driving force behind much of the legislative change we’ve seen in the past 10 years.

Founded in 2008, WM Technology is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry, comprising a B2C platform, Weedmaps, and B2B software, WM Business. The cloud-based SaaS solutions from WM Business provide an end-to-end operating system for cannabis retailers. WM Business’ tools support compliance with the complex, disparate, and constantly evolving regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. Through its website and mobile apps, WM Technology provides consumers with the latest information about cannabis retailers, brands, and products, facilitating product discovery and driving engagement with our retail and brand customers.

WM Technology holds a strong belief in the power of cannabis and the importance of enabling safe, legal access to consumers worldwide. Since inception, WM Technology has worked tirelessly, not only to become the most comprehensive platform for consumers, but to build the software solutions that power businesses compliantly in the space, to advocate for legalization, social equity, and licensing in many jurisdictions, and to facilitate further learning through partnering with subject matter experts on providing detailed, accurate information about the plant.

Headquartered in Irvine, California, WM Technology supports remote work for all eligible employees. Visit us at www.weedmaps.com.

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