Principal Product Manager
Tracksuit
Product
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Oct 10, 2024
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Are you our new Principal Product Manager
We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to help us track every brand in the world. You’ll be responsible for scaling our survey sampling: the heart of the Tracksuit product. This is great for a “zero-to-one” style product manager: someone who can start something from scratch and effectively build a new business / product within Tracksuit. That business is finding commercially viable ways to find more survey respondents. This is not your run-of-the-mill product role: this is closer to a Founder / Chief of Staff / Commercial Director role.
We’re forming a small, tight-knit team to lead this effort. You’ll be working with a Principal Engineer, a Senior Data Scientist, and have support from market research experts. A small but impactful team that has high agency and high accountability.
Please note — while we have listed this role as being based in our Sydney office, we are also open to Auckland applicants and this person working from our NZ office. We are open to assisting with relocation to either location, however you will need the legal right to work.
The Important bits:
You will report to our Head of Product, Harry, sitting within our Product function. You’ll join us as a individual contributor. This full time permanent role is benchmarked as Level 5, with a salary range of $190,000 - $220,000 AUD plus generous ESOP and a full suite of benefits.
This role is exciting because:
- You’re working on one of the most impactful projects in the company: You’ll be solving a problem that’s core to our ability to scale and retain product market fit.
- You get to be hands-on: negotiating with third-parties, building partnerships, working across the business, sitting alongside engineers, and implementing solutions.
- We don’t have a roadmap dictated to us: you’ll have a clear high-level outcome (finding more survey sample), but it’s up to you to define the problems and solutions that contribute to that outcome.
- You’ll work across the entire business: especially with an international focus. Finding more sample is not just an ANZ challenge: it’s across all of our markets, especially the US and the UK.
- We’re backed by product-legend Lenny Rachitsky: founder of Lenny’s Podcast and Lenny’s Newsletter. In Lenny’s words: “Across the thousands of startup decks I've looked at, I've almost never seen a growth trajectory like the growth Tracksuit has seen.”
As our Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Building a strategy to scale how we find survey sample
- Thinking like a founder: being commercial, entrepreneurial, and doing whatever is needed to acquire more survey sample
- Working with engineers, data scientists, and other roles to build the product and implement the strategy
- Maintaining and scale the solutions
- Negotiating with third-party survey panels and other external vendors
- Building a commercially viable way to scale our survey needs
- Building partnerships with people in the market research industry
- Leading the implementation of integrating different sample sources
- Leading the launch of new survey products to drive acquisition and retention
- Maintaining data quality and integrity
That's the role, so who are you?
- You have 5+ years experience in a product-focused role in a high growth SaaS business
- Proven track-record on critical projects: you are someone who’s comfortable with running high profile projects within the business.
- Kind: A kind, low-ego, smart, and genuine human with a growth mindset
- Technical and data-literate: The world of surveys is a technical, data-heavy one. You should be comfortable with technical and data-focused products.
- You will have proven experience working collaboratively with engineers: to discovery, build, maintain, iterate, and scale a solution
- You will be commercial minded: have the ability to think commercially and create a profitable way to find sample. Can work with external vendors and negotiate.
- Partnership-focused: have the ability to build relationships within the industry.
- A founder-like mentality: you are someone who is entrepreneurial, will do whatever is needed to produce results, and wants to be accountable for an outcome.
- Experiment-driven and able to de-risk work.
Why join us at Tracksuit?
As one of Australasia's fastest growing startups, we've hand-picked a world-class team of kind, ambitious, generous, and smart humans. But don’t take our word for it! You’ll be joining the:
⦿ Mumbrella Marketing Company of the Year 2022
⦿ HRD Employer of Choice <200 Staff 2024
⦿ NZ Hi Tech Awards, Emerging Company of the Year 2024
⦿ AFR Best Place to Work Media and Marketing (4th place) 2024
At just over 3 years old, we're incredibly grateful and excited to be working with over 500 epic brands across AU, NZ, USA, Canada and UK, like frank body, MyFitnessPal, Sharesies, Bondi Sands and more.
Tracksuit’s vision is to be used in every strategic growth conversation for the best consumer brands of today and tomorrow. We’re doing this by becoming the common language to measure and communicate the value of brand building. We've built beautiful, always-on, radically affordable brand tracking — taking an old-school, $100k+ market research product and making it 10x easier to use and 10x more affordable.
We’re a tight-knit, supportive, and ambitious team, driven to empower companies to use brand to drive success. Our culture thrives on complete transparency, trust, learning, and constant development and improvement.
Underpinning the experience are our great benefits, including:
⦿ Compensation: Competitive market rate remuneration. Our radically transparent compensation policy ensures that salaries are fair across the entire team.
⦿ Bonus Scheme: An annual company-wide performance bonus to celebrate hitting our targets together.
⦿ Employee Share Option Program (ESOP): So that everyone on the team has a share in Tracksuit’s success.
⦿ Progressive health and wellness benefits: Including an annual wellness bonus, access to a premium EAP platform, and 6 weeks of paid annual leave.
⦿ Generous parental benefits: 12 weeks’ paid parental leave for either caregiver, additional sick leave for IVF, gradual return to work.
⦿ A $1000 personal L&D budget for each Trackstar, plus additional growth opportunities including mentorships, speaking engagements, and travel.
⦿ Flexible working: We have beautiful offices in Auckland, Sydney, London, and New York. We are office first but offer full flexibility day to day and adopt a balanced approach to WFH/in-office work.
⦿ Most importantly, when you join, you’ll receive an epic Tracksuit which reflects our vibe. We are built for speed and comfort, we're fun and informal, and we're practical and ready for anything.