Pickaxe is looking for multiple talented product managers who enjoy meeting users, love data and have a practical business sense about why our users value it, and can work closely with developers, designers, and other teammates to drive the product roadmap. 

Pickaxe is an insights platform; we connect to our customers existing data, partners and tools, we analyze the data via proprietary machine learning and statistical analysis systems and provide our customers with real time insights that help them understand the so what and now what about their business.

As a Product Manager on the team you’ll work with customers and creative developers throughout the full product lifecycle from identifying gaps/opportunities, gathering requirements, packaging and positioning features, and executing on delivery, launch, and adoption.  More specifically you will:

– Work closely with our customers over time to understand their pain points, help translate those needs into requirements for features and benefits we can deliver. 

– Identify key opportunities in the market space for the product that are currently underserved

– Work with developers to scope, size, and prioritize the roadmap and backlog 

-Assist QA with making sure what we show our clients is impeccably accurate and easily understandable

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Essentials:

• You’re proactive, entrepreneurial, and collaborative; you can work well with cross functional teams of Analysts/Dev/QA and clients, you can spot gaps, and can manage your own work stream.
• Customers like working with you.  You’ve been customer facing, you like building features for users, and you know how to spot trends in user feedback across verticals and brands.
• You’ve got 5+ years of work experience in product management.  And you can act as your own project manager when necessary.  
• Ideally you’ve been a subject matter expert on either Data Analytics or tools like Adobe Analytics/Omniture, MixPanel, Heap, Amplitude, Google Analytics, Google Search console, billing systems, Shopify, inventory managers, CMS’s, etc. You won’t use them all, but you have to feel comfortable understanding how different data collection systems work and how you might match up data between multiple systems.
• Extra credit if you have a have a strong background in e-commerce, digital marketing (awareness or direct response), social publishing, media, or subscription businesses.
• Experience with database analysis is a plus (R, SQL, BigQuery, Python)

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Specializations:

• Clear understanding of concepts and application of product management, agile development, and the ideals and realities of the software lifecycle
• Clear understanding of concepts and application of statistics, predictive analytics and machine learning, and a desire to learn more
• Experience in business analytics; you’ve reported on and evaluated at least one of site performance, marketing campaigns, programmatic media platforms, optimization tests, CRM, and social analytics
• You’re interested in using AI to solve business challenges, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG), machine vision, and deep learning techniques

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This job is primarily remote. Some travel to New York, LA, SF, and London may be required.