Product Manager

When you join Accurate Background, you’re an integral part of making every hire the start of a success story. Your contributions will help us fulfill our mission of advancing the background screening experience through visibility and insights, empowering our clients to make smarter, unbiased decisions. Job Description: As a Senior Product Manager, you’ll be developing your products strategy and overseeing the end-to-end product lifecycle. This includes product ideation, strategic planning, tactical initiatives, product vision, product roadmap, supporting product development and product distribution. This individual will collaborate with key business stakeholders and is the facilitator and planner ensuring that product lifecycle deadlines are met, and updates are communicated across channels. Finally, you will be analyzing and reporting product data for effective launches, and ensuring that quality, usability, and reliability standards are met. Accurate Background is a fast-growing organization, focused on providing employment background screenings and building trustful relationships with our clients. Accurate Background continues to exceed expectations by offering an array of innovative and cutting-edge background check and credentialing products to meet the needs of human resource, loss prevention, and security/legal professionals in employment screening and vendor certification. Responsibilities: Be the voice of the customer. Listen to the market (internal and external users) and clearly define the market problem. Use market information to drive short-term and long-term product strategy. Act as a product ambassador internally and externally, as well as the product subject matter expert and the product’s primary contact. Analyze market trends and competitive landscape and become the team’s expert on industry trends. Work with your team to translate the company’s high-level vision and goals into actionable tasks, maintain a prioritized roadmap and timeline for platform features and user stories, and produce quality requirements. Work with project managers and technical leads to determine program and product development cycle scope and priorities, highlighting dependencies and risks. Manage and own end-to-end product lifecycle for your product, including prioritization of bugs/enhancements, along with building and launching new offerings. Track product performance metrics to ensure we are meeting or exceeding targets, and pivot product roadmap direction as necessary. Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure product roadmap is aligned with stakeholder needs. Experience with day in the life client visits and synthesizing all market data into a meaningful strategy to take the product to the next level. Create and drive improvements in product messaging and or positioning.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in a business or technology field, advanced degree preferred. Minimum 5+ years of experience in a hands-on Product Owner or Product Manager role Product Owner Certification (CSPO or Pragmatic Marketing) a plus. Customer-focused with a passion for user experience. Highly analytical with strong organizational skills. Strong interpersonal, collaboration, relationship building and negotiating skills. Track record in building and launching profitable products. Excellent written and verbal communicator who is comfortable presenting to senior leadership and key clients. Up to 25% travel (as necessary) Benefits: We offer also offers Group Life Insurance, Group Income Protection, Critical Illness, Health Cash Plan, Employee Assistance, Salary Exchange Pension Scheme. The Accurate Way: We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. We have an unwavering commitment to diversity, ensuring everyone has a complete sense of belonging here. To do this, we follow four guiding principles – Take Ownership, Be Open, Stay Curious, Work as One – core values that dictate what we stand for, and how we behave. Take ownership. Be accountable for your actions, your team, and the company. Accept responsibility willingly, especially when it’s what’s best for our customers. Give others every reason to trust you, believe in you, and count on you. Rise to every occasion with your personal best. Be open. Be open to new ideas. Be inclusive of people and ways of doing things. Make yourself accessible and approachable, and communicate with genuineness, transparency, honesty, and respect. Embrace differences. Stay curious. Stay curious even as you move forward. Tirelessly ask questions and challenge the status quo in your pursuit of new ideas, ways to solve problems, and to continually grow and improve. Work as one. Work together to create the best customer and workplace experience. Put our customers and employees first—before individual or departmental agendas. Make sure they get the help they need to succeed. Equal opportunities Accurate is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to hiring talented and qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Accurate will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. If residing in the UK a basic criminal record check with DBS will be required for all successful applicants, having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances of your offences. Special Notice: Accurate is aware of schemes involving fraudulent job postings/offers and/or individuals or entities claiming to be employees of Accurate. Those involved are offering fabricated employment opportunities to applicants, often asking for sensitive personal and financial information. If you believe you have been contacted by anyone misrepresenting themselves as an employee of Accurate, please contact [email protected]. - Please be advised that all legitimate correspondence from an Accurate employee will come from "@accurate.com" email accounts. - Accurate will not interview candidates via text or email. Our interviews are conducted by recruiters and leaders via the phone, Zoom/Teams or in an in-person format. - Accurate will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with the Company. Apply To This Job