PitchBook
Sr. Product Manager, Deal Sourcing – PitchBook
At PitchBook, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company. Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence. If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.
About the Role As a member of the Product and Engineering team, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation. This highly visible role will work on an initiative that is a key part of PitchBook's growth strategy.
Primary Job Responsibilities
Drive user discovery and product market fit: Rapidly identify, validate, and test high‑impact workflows through extensive user research, customer interviews, data analysis, and iterative prototyping.
Strategy and roadmap execution: Develop and maintain a clear, compelling product strategy and roadmap, translating business goals and validated customer needs into a prioritized backlog for the engineering team.
Cross‑functional leadership: Serve as the core decision‑maker and leader for a dedicated engineering and design team, guiding them through the entire product development lifecycle from ideation and alpha to launch and scale.
Data and integration expertise: Partner closely with domain and data product teams to define the critical data integrations and unique data models necessary to power a world‑class deal sourcing application.
Business impact measurement: Define and track key performance indicators and business metrics to continuously measure product success, iterate on features, and report on growth and adoption to executive leadership.
Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors.
Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested.
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required.
5+ years of progressive product management experience, with a proven track record of successfully launching new products or major initiatives, ideally 0‑to‑1.
Deep domain knowledge of Private Equity, Venture Capital, and M&A ecosystem, with hands‑on experience or exceptional familiarity with deal sourcing, screening, or origination.
Comfort with ambiguity: Proven ability to lead user discovery and shape highly ambiguous problem spaces into focused, executable product scopes.
Bias for action and experimentation: Demonstrated experience using A/B testing, rapid prototyping, and other quantitative/qualitative methods to drive product iterations toward PMF.
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating effectively with executive leadership, engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams.
Strong technical acumen, capable of discussing architecture, data models, and technical trade‑offs with engineering counterparts.
Experience with enterprise user personas and navigating the complexities of B2B product discovery and sales cycles preferred.
Strong technical familiarity with data‑intensive applications, API design, and complex search/filtering capabilities preferred.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Benefits + Compensation Physical Health
Comprehensive health benefits.
Additional medical wellness incentives.
STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance.
Emotional Health
Paid sabbatical program after four years.
Paid family and paternity leave.
Annual educational stipend.
Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement.
CFA exam stipend.
Robust training programs on industry and soft skills.
Employee assistance program.
Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days.
Social Health
Matching gifts program.
Employee resource groups.
Subsidized emergency childcare.
Dependent Care FSA.
Company‑wide events.
Employee referral bonus program.
Quarterly team building events.
Financial Health
401k match.
Shared ownership employee stock program.
Monthly transportation stipend.
Benefits and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of employment.
Compensation
Annual base salary: $165,000 – $200,000.
Target annual bonus percentage: 10%.
Working Conditions Being together in the office fuels our creativity, strengthens our connections, and drives the innovation that sets us apart. This role is expected to be in the office five days a week. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.
Life At PitchBook We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work. It’s our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we’ve heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community. We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at PitchBook.
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About the Role As a member of the Product and Engineering team, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation. This highly visible role will work on an initiative that is a key part of PitchBook's growth strategy.
Primary Job Responsibilities
Drive user discovery and product market fit: Rapidly identify, validate, and test high‑impact workflows through extensive user research, customer interviews, data analysis, and iterative prototyping.
Strategy and roadmap execution: Develop and maintain a clear, compelling product strategy and roadmap, translating business goals and validated customer needs into a prioritized backlog for the engineering team.
Cross‑functional leadership: Serve as the core decision‑maker and leader for a dedicated engineering and design team, guiding them through the entire product development lifecycle from ideation and alpha to launch and scale.
Data and integration expertise: Partner closely with domain and data product teams to define the critical data integrations and unique data models necessary to power a world‑class deal sourcing application.
Business impact measurement: Define and track key performance indicators and business metrics to continuously measure product success, iterate on features, and report on growth and adoption to executive leadership.
Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors.
Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested.
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required.
5+ years of progressive product management experience, with a proven track record of successfully launching new products or major initiatives, ideally 0‑to‑1.
Deep domain knowledge of Private Equity, Venture Capital, and M&A ecosystem, with hands‑on experience or exceptional familiarity with deal sourcing, screening, or origination.
Comfort with ambiguity: Proven ability to lead user discovery and shape highly ambiguous problem spaces into focused, executable product scopes.
Bias for action and experimentation: Demonstrated experience using A/B testing, rapid prototyping, and other quantitative/qualitative methods to drive product iterations toward PMF.
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating effectively with executive leadership, engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams.
Strong technical acumen, capable of discussing architecture, data models, and technical trade‑offs with engineering counterparts.
Experience with enterprise user personas and navigating the complexities of B2B product discovery and sales cycles preferred.
Strong technical familiarity with data‑intensive applications, API design, and complex search/filtering capabilities preferred.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Benefits + Compensation Physical Health
Comprehensive health benefits.
Additional medical wellness incentives.
STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance.
Emotional Health
Paid sabbatical program after four years.
Paid family and paternity leave.
Annual educational stipend.
Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement.
CFA exam stipend.
Robust training programs on industry and soft skills.
Employee assistance program.
Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days.
Social Health
Matching gifts program.
Employee resource groups.
Subsidized emergency childcare.
Dependent Care FSA.
Company‑wide events.
Employee referral bonus program.
Quarterly team building events.
Financial Health
401k match.
Shared ownership employee stock program.
Monthly transportation stipend.
Benefits and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of employment.
Compensation
Annual base salary: $165,000 – $200,000.
Target annual bonus percentage: 10%.
Working Conditions Being together in the office fuels our creativity, strengthens our connections, and drives the innovation that sets us apart. This role is expected to be in the office five days a week. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.
Life At PitchBook We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work. It’s our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we’ve heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community. We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at PitchBook.
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