Hybrid Senior Product Manager

at Auror

• Job title: Senior Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: NZ$150,000 - NZ$170,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Tableau
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Auckland, New Zealand

About the role

• Senior Product Manager driving product growth and strategy for Auror's intel & mobile product streams. Engaging with customers to deliver insights and leveraging AI responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers and key partners to deeply understand the problem space, pain points, and opportunities for actionable insights. Champion the customer voice throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to align product strategy with our customer needs, company goals, and objectives. Define and own the vision and roadmap for your product streams.
• Play a key role in ensuring we ship high-quality products, at a high cadence, that consistently deliver on customer outcomes, partnering with engineering, design, data, and commercial teams to ensure smooth execution, balancing technical feasibility with delivering customer and business value. Drive go to market activities to ensure adoption of your product in partnership with product marketing and other stakeholders.
• Lead strategic decisions to ensure product-market fit, scalability, value delivery and ROI. Understand the commercial impact of your product stream on customers and the business. Observe and respond to changes in the competitive landscape.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, and drive innovation to ensure our products remain cutting-edge and competitive.
• Identify opportunities to integrate AI and advanced analytics into the platform in a sensible, safe, and impactful way. Collaborate cross-functionally to drive ethical AI practices.
• Define and track key product metrics. Communicate progress, outcomes, and learnings to stakeholders and the wider business.
• Finding moments and opportunities to level up the team through coaching, and mentoring.

Requirements

• A proven track record delivering world-class B2B SaaS products to market.
• A strong "customer-centric" mindset in designing roadmaps and building products that meet our customers' current and future needs.
• Not only able to shape a high-level strategic initiative but can also roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Experienced using data to drive areas of improvement and product strategy.
• Strong strategic thinker with a proven track record of contributing to and driving product strategy.
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen with the ability to drive the financial side of a product.
• Coach/mentor other product managers either inside or outside your organisation.
• Strong executor with a proven track record of shipping products fast to a high quality.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Thoughtful, high empathy and social intelligence, with the ability to deliver all types of information and context to different people in ways that resonate.
• A proactive self-starter, organised, focused, and with a strong bias for action and forward momentum.
• **Nice to have**
• Experience working on products with a global scale (and teams in multiple regions and timezones)
• Experience building product features that turn data into actionable insights, which may include embedding analytics tools (such as PowerBI, Tableau, or Looker), using LLMs to generate summaries, or providing context-aware information and recommendations.
• Experience innovating with new technologies (including AI & machine learning)
• An understanding of machine learning techniques and their capabilities, such as traditional models (logistic regression, boosted decision trees), large language models (LLMs such as ChatGPT), and image models (such as CNNs).
• Working with partner service providers to understand the mechanics of their services that results in strong value for customers.

Benefits

• **Competitive salary range: **Depending on level of experience, between $150,000 - $170,000 (IC4).
• **Employee share scheme: **You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
• **Flexibility: **We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
• **Shorter work weeks (at full pay): **Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
• **Focus on mental and physical health:** We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including Wellness Days, and up to $750 NZD for expert sessions every year.
• **Health insurance:** We prioritise looking after your health by covering 100% of your individual health insurance plan through nib health insurance.
• **Family-friendly: **We offer comprehensive paid parental leave - 12 weeks for birth parents and 6 weeks for non-birth parents following birth, adoption, or surrogacy, available to all Aurors from day one.
• **Personal growth:** We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
• **Team love: **We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.