Senior Product Manager - Guild Grow

About the role

To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. You can read about our culture principles here. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here.

Responsibilities

• Build strong working relationships with cross-functional partners and senior stakeholders to align on goals and priorities.
• Synthesize input from customers, employer partners, internal teams, and data to inform product decisions.
• Identify risks, trade-offs, and dependencies within your product area and proactively surface them to partners and leaders.
• Contribute to a collaborative product culture through clear communication and shared accountability.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for a defined product area within Guild Grow, aligned with company and product-line goals.
• Lead discovery efforts to deeply understand customer needs, pain points, and opportunities.
• Translate insights into clear product requirements, hypotheses, and success metrics.
• Use data, experimentation, and customer feedback to iterate and improve product outcomes.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for incremental and step-change improvements within your domain.
• Partner with engineering and design to plan, prioritize, and deliver high-quality product increments.
• Manage backlog, scope, and trade-offs to ensure timely and impactful delivery.
• Track progress, dependencies, and risks, adjusting plans as needed.
• Support continuous improvement in team delivery practices and execution quality.
• Help resolve execution challenges within your product area, escalating when necessary.
• Develop strong domain knowledge across your product area and its supporting systems.
• Collaborate with engineering on technical design decisions and trade-offs.
• Use data analysis to monitor product performance, diagnose issues, and identify opportunities.
• Contribute to improvements in scalability, reliability, and maintainability within your scope.
• Communicate product vision, priorities, and progress clearly to cross-functional partners.
• Create concise narratives and artifacts (PRDs, roadmaps, updates) that enable alignment and decision-making.
• Tailor communication style and depth to different audiences, including leadership and delivery teams.
• Serve as a strong product partner and role model within the product organization.
• Share learnings, best practices, and feedback with peers.
• Support the development of more junior product managers through collaboration and informal mentorship.
• Continuously develop your own product craft and domain expertise.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of product management experience, ideally in B2B, enterprise SaaS, or platform products.
• Proven ability to own and deliver product strategy and execution for a defined product area.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through discovery, delivery, and iteration.
• Strong customer empathy and data-informed decision-making skills.
• Solid technical fluency and comfort partnering closely with engineering.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve productivity and speed across product management workflows.
• Comfort building quick prototypes or concept artifacts using AI-assisted tools to validate ideas and drive alignment.
• Clear, effective communicator with the ability to influence without authority.
• Experience in benefits, payments, education, or global products is a plus but not required.

Pay

This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $160,000 - 200,000 and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.

Schedule

The role is remote, with occasional travel to Denver and other locations as needed.