Product Manager

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Contract
• Duration: 6 months
• Company: HER

Description: HER is the world’s largest sapphic dating app. Our mission is to create meaningful, amorous connections in a way that feels nourishing and delightful. We will always prioritise and celebrate sapphic behavior and culture and lead the change we want to see. We’re a remote team that’s looking for smart and driven people who care deeply about the LGBTQ+ community to help us grow and scale HER to millions more queer folks across the world.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Product Manager to join our team on a 6 months contract basis. This role will support product execution by refining requirements, coordinating sprints, and facilitating cross-team alignment to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality features. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the dating app market, LGBTQ+ community, marketplace and subscription products, extensive experience in product management, and a proven track record of driving growth and innovation in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in consumer mobile product management, preferably within the dating space.
• Skills:
  • Proven experience in developing and executing growth strategies that drive significant user and revenue growth.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
  • Experience with product management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Asana).
  • Understanding of the LGBTQ+ community and its needs.
  • Familiarity with marketplace and subscription products.

Responsibilities

• Sprint & Delivery Management:
  • Prepare and organize sprint planning in collaboration with the development team.
  • Ensure that requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria are well-defined.
  • Work closely with engineering and design teams to maintain sprint health and ensure smooth execution whilst communicating this consistently to all teams.
  • Track progress, surface risks, and proactively resolve blockers.
• Requirement Gathering & Documentation:
  • Define clear and detailed acceptance criteria for User Stories to ensure alignment with product goals.
  • Work closely with engineers to break down requirements into actionable development tasks.
  • Ensure that all acceptance criteria are well-documented and easily understood by the engineering team.
• Quality Assurance & Release Readiness:
  • Conduct QA testing to validate that features meet acceptance criteria before release.
  • Work with engineers and designers to identify and fix usability issues, edge cases, and defects.
  • Ensure early communication and visibility and smooth handoff to customer support and marketing for new feature rollouts.
• Cross-Team Communication & Alignment:
  • Provide regular updates on sprint progress, key decisions, and release timelines to relevant teams.
  • Serve as a liaison between engineering, design, marketing, and support teams to ensure alignment.
  • Be constantly and consistently updating specs in Notion and team knowledge in slack based on revisions and agreements during the product cycle
  • Facilitate stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and syncs as needed.

Application Instructions

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