About Geocaching HQ

We are the global headquarters for the game of geocaching. Our apps and Geocaching.com website allow a global community of more than 10 million people to join in a real-world treasure hunt.

Our mission (and yours should you choose to accept it) is to inspire and enable adventure, exploration, and discovery. Basically, everyone’s job here is to enable millions of people to have fun outside. How cool is that? 

Position Overview

As Senior Product Manager, you’re a born collaborator with a broad range of skills - you can talk technology with developers, user experience with designers, acquisition and retention with marketing, numbers with finance, and strategy with executive leadership. You’re a subject matter expert recognized as a fierce customer advocate with keen market insight. You’re an entrepreneur at heart and thrive in ambiguity and can handle competing priorities with ease. At the end of the day, you deliver.

What You’ll Do

• Be a leader on the Product team, using your influence and experience to ensure a cohesive road map and strategy for the product. 
• Hypothesize, gather, and analyze data in partnership with data scientists regarding user interaction with the product; aggregate into meaningful insights and solution proposals.
• Be proficient in identifying new opportunities via qualitative and quantitative research, ethnographic studies, A/B testing, funnels, and polls/surveys
• Contribute to the high-level company vision and business goals and creatively direct resources toward achieving them, while delivering value to the customer.
• Serve as an agile Product Owner: manage a prioritized backlog; define user stories with detailed acceptance criteria; participate in daily standup and sprint reviews of engineering work products
• Actively monitor project risks and scope-creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them.
• Ensure stakeholders are aligned and committed to delivery per agreed project plans; Act as a central point of communication for all stakeholders
• Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports, document feedback and data, track timelines, and organize everything into a medium to be shared and referred back to as needed.
• Stay abreast of current trends and processes in product development and technology in the industry, and implement updates to our processes when appropriate
• Provide mentorship to junior members of the Product team
• Be an active participant in the game.

Qualifications & Required Skills

• 6+ years experience in a product role.
• Superior interpersonal and listening skills (in other words: can listen much more than they talk).
• Proven success in delivering technology products in an enterprise environment.
• Proven ability to adapt workflow to the needs of a team to maximize productivity.
• Proven leadership ability in a software development environment.
• Superior project management and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; proven ability to leverage data in decision-making.
• Values passion, authenticity and effectiveness, and knows that all three are needed to be successful.
• Significant geocaching experience highly desired.
• Bonus: experience in JIRA, Podio, and Google Analytics.
• BA/BS or equivalent experience

Behaviors

• Leads by example and exemplifies our values in actions and behaviors
• Superb communication, interpersonal, analytical and negotiation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exhibits tact and proper judgment under pressure and in sensitive situations
• Desire to learn and a “quick study” with new concepts, systems and technologies
• Self-starting, self-directed, and open to coaching/feedback
• Uses independent judgment to plan, organize, and prioritize workload

Physical Demands and Work Environment 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain stationary for long periods of time. In this position you must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

This job description should not be construed to imply that these requirements are the only duties, responsibilities, and qualification for this job. Incumbents may be required to follow any additional related instructions, acquire related job skills and perform other related work as required.
 

Geocaching HQ embraces a diverse and inclusive workplace. Authenticity is one of our company core values and we strive to celebrate our differences. We encourage everyone to apply.