About this role
ZeeMee is looking for a resourceful Product Manager who is excited to help millions of students connect with other people who share their interests, values, and aspirations.
What is ZeeMee?
ZeeMee is a social platform where prospective and current college students are encouraged to express their truest selves, develop relationships, and establish inclusive communities centered around specific colleges, hobbies, causes, or identities. It also does double-duty as an innovative engagement tool that over 100 colleges and universities (including UC Berkeley, USC, Smith, and University of Washington) use to recruit and retain incoming students.
Your responsibilities will include...
Working with our CEO to define a product vision and strategy that will delight our users and deliver on business objectives
Spearheading discovery efforts to identify students’ social needs as well as our college partners’ enrollment needs and leading our Product Designer and Engineers to find the solutions for them
Pitching ideas to the Leadership team, communicating which metrics will inform the efficacy of new features, and driving consensus around their urgency and importance
Drumming up enthusiasm, urgency, and a sense of purpose across the company as you make progress against, and continually add to, the product roadmap
Driving product development by crafting tickets, prioritizing them, leading stand-ups, and completing user-acceptance testing
Completing and sharing post-launch feature analyses, and bringing the voices of our users to our company for continual improvement and motivation
Communicating new feature releases via in-app product marketing efforts, newsletters, and partner meetings
We’re looking for someone with...
A positive attitude who is very comfortable asking for help and self-directing from there
Demonstrable empathy for high school and college-aged students
An interest in social discovery/dating/community building (previous experience is a plus!)
A basic sense of mobile design principles and curiosity for UI and interaction design
Experience as a Product Owner or Scrum Master and sincerely enjoys being part of a development team
The ability to break big initiatives into smaller more manageable chunks and the discipline to measure the outcome of each release
Great verbal and written communication skills that will be leveraged to articulate product intent and detailed requirements
Why work at ZeeMee
We are a small, but mighty team of about 20 people and each one of us shows up to work with heart, humor, and humility. As the builders of a community-focused product that serves a diverse audience, we make an ongoing effort to continually discover and celebrate each employee’s talents, life milestones, and interests. Our team is spread around the world but we stay close through a variety of tools and programs, and are looking forward to bringing back our annual retreats!