About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Product Manager based in Spain.
This is a hands-on product role focused on owning the day-to-day development and operations of a student-facing digital platform.
Responsibilities
- Own and continuously maintain the product backlog, including bugs, feature requests, enhancements, operational requirements, and feedback from students, coaches, customer success, operations, and leadership.
- Translate business needs, user feedback, and operational pain points into clear product requirements, prioritized backlog items, and actionable development work.
- Create and maintain PRDs, feature briefs, user stories, rollout documentation, acceptance criteria, and other product documentation.
- Write detailed engineering tickets that clearly define the problem, expected and actual behavior, scope, out-of-scope items, edge cases, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
- Review incoming product requests and bug reports, reproduce issues where necessary, identify duplicates, and ensure that problems are documented accurately before entering development.
- Break larger product initiatives into practical, shippable phases while maintaining clear priorities and controlling scope.
- Partner with engineering and UX/design teams to assess feasibility, clarify requirements, review designs, resolve blockers, and keep product development moving.
- Facilitate product working sessions with engineering and technical leads to triage, scope, prioritize, and prepare work for development.
- Coordinate QA activities, verify fixes and new functionality after deployment, and ensure issues are properly retested before and after release.
- Support launch readiness by coordinating access rules, permissions, cohort logic, phased rollouts, release requirements, and post-launch monitoring.
- Prepare clear internal launch announcements and feature updates that explain what changed, why it matters, and how different teams should use or respond to the changes.
- Monitor post-launch feedback, identify recurring issues and themes, and translate learnings into future product improvements.
- Act as an effective bridge between engineering, design, customer-facing teams, operations, and leadership, ensuring everyone has the context needed to make decisions and execute effectively.
- Maintain strong product operations discipline by keeping priorities, documentation, follow-ups, and delivery status organized and visible.
- Use AI-powered tools where appropriate to improve product documentation, research, ticket creation, workflows, and day-to-day product operations.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in product management, product operations, technical project management, or a comparable software-related role.
- Demonstrated experience managing and prioritizing a product backlog in a software development environment.
- Strong experience writing PRDs, feature specifications, engineering tickets, user stories, acceptance criteria, technical documentation, or similar product materials.
- Ability to translate complex business or user needs into clear, structured, actionable requirements for engineering and design teams.
- Experience collaborating closely with engineering, UX/design, customer-facing teams, operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to keep multiple initiatives moving without losing track of follow-ups.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt messaging for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong scope-management skills and a practical, execution-oriented approach to product development.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote-first environment with distributed teams and limited supervision.
- A strong bias toward execution and shipping, with the judgment to distinguish between valuable improvements and unnecessary complexity.
- Availability to collaborate during core overlap hours of 9:00 AM–1:00 PM Pacific Time, with most recurring U.S. team meetings taking place between 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM PT.
- Comfortable collaborating with teams across both European and U.S. time zones.
- Experience in EdTech, admissions, coaching, student platforms, or service-oriented products is a plus.
- Familiarity with tools such as ClickUp, Jira, Linear, Asana, Notion, Slack, Figma, or similar platforms is advantageous.
- Experience with phased releases, permissions, access rules, cohort-based rollouts, or entitlement logic is a plus.
- Experience coordinating QA or release readiness is desirable.
- Familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or comparable solutions for product documentation, ticket writing, research, and product operations is beneficial.
Conditions
- Base salary: USD 40,000–50,000 per year, depending on experience and location.
- Full-time remote position.
- Bi-weekly payroll with 26 pay periods per year.