Product Manager III / Sr. Product Manager

SponsorCX helps sponsorship teams and the brands who invest in them move off spreadsheets and disconnected tools, centralizing and automating the sponsorship lifecycle from pitch to renewal. Our customers include some of the most recognized properties and brands in the country.

Why Work At SponsorCX

• We're building a platform that's changing how sponsorships get managed, and our customers see the difference it makes in their day.
• We put the customer at the center of every decision we make.
• We've raised multiple rounds of funding and are well-financed for our next stage of growth.
• Our leadership team is committed to a performance-based culture where excellence is rewarded and careers grow.
• We do well with people who bring a player-coach mentality, value cross-functional teamwork, and choose perseverance over shortcuts.

Job Summary

The Product Manager III (Sr Product Manager) owns the full product lifecycle across a strategic domain — from problem framing and discovery through delivery, iteration, and roadmap planning. This role operates with a high degree of independence, bringing structured recommendations to leadership rather than open questions, and driving alignment across Engineering, Design, Customer Success, and Sales. A Product Manager III manages a portfolio of initiatives simultaneously at different stages of the development lifecycle, sets the pace for their cross-functional team, and is accountable for both the outcomes and the commitments their product area makes to the business and its customers. They actively leverage AI tools and workflows to increase their own leverage and contribute to the company's AI product direction.

Responsibilities

• Own the full product lifecycle for a strategic domain — from discovery and problem framing through delivery, iteration, and roadmap planning
• Manage a portfolio of initiatives simultaneously across different stages of the development lifecycle — discovery, design, execution, release, and iteration
• Drive discovery end-to-end — synthesizing customer insight, CS feedback, sales input, and market signals into a clear, recommended direction before prescribing solutions
• Bring structured recommendations to leadership — framing problems with proposed paths, risks, and trade-offs rather than open questions
• Own delivery planning and execution against customer and company commitments, proactively identifying risks and timeline adjustments before they become escalations
• Lead cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Design, Customer Success, and Sales
• Independently manage complex prioritization across roadmap commitments, discovery work, technical constraints, and emerging business opportunities
• Navigate complex customer and stakeholder dynamics, balancing roadmap integrity with strategic business needs
• Write and maintain clear product requirements, engineering tickets, and customer-facing documentation
• Actively leverage AI tools and workflows to accelerate discovery, analysis, communication, and execution — and contribute to the company's AI product direction
• Provide mentorship and craft development to PM II and other less senior product team members

What Success Looks Like

• Delivery of product initiatives on time and within scope
• Proactive identification and resolution of delivery risks before they become escalations
• Quality and clarity of recommendations brought to leadership with problems framed with a proposed path, risks, and trade-offs
• Customer satisfaction and feedback
• Alignment between product delivery and business goals
• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across Engineering, Design, Customer Success, and Sales without direct authority

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience in product management or related roles
• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience
• Experience working with engineering teams to deliver software products
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to translate business and customer needs into product requirements
• Experience working in a SaaS or technology environment, ideally with some exposure to self-serve or usage-based growth motions
• Experience building customer-facing AI products
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment where agility and ownership are required in equal measure

Preferred

• Proven experience scaling a freemium or free-trial SaaS product via bottom-up adoption
• Ability to measure and improve the free-to-paid funnel, including user activation, conversion, and revenue expansion over time

Schedule

This role works a hybrid schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days remote. Fast-paced environment with evolving priorities. Flexible schedules with an emphasis on communication and accountability.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Majority of medical and dental insurance paid
• Unlimited PTO with a leadership team that encourages taking time off and using it to recharge
• Fourteen paid holidays, including one week off at the end of the year
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Stocked kitchen and company activities