Senior Product Manager (Canada)

About Aspire

At Aspire, we don’t just follow trends — we set them. Be part of the team helping iconic brands like Samsung, Dyson, and HelloFresh fuel growth by tapping into the power of influencers, customers, affiliates, and more. Are you ready to make an impact? Aspire.io is the world’s first word-of-mouth commerce platform that leverages your brand’s ambassadors, influencers, affiliates, customers, user-generated content, and social ads to accelerate marketing results across paid, owned, and earned channels. Since 2014, Aspire’s industry-leading software platform, combined with our award-winning Agency Services team, has served household names such as M&Ms, Keurig, Samsung, HelloFresh, Dyson, and many other high-growth ecommerce companies while paying out $100M to creators around the world.

We’re growing across the board - and we're looking for a Sr. Product Manager to join our distributed remote [department] team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment. 

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Product Manager to join our product team to help lead Aspire through an exciting period of growth. As a Sr. Product Manager, you will define and contribute to the strategic vision and own the long-term roadmap for major suites of the product. You will use your customer obsession, product domain expertise, and ownership to lead products and teams through strategic and technical ambiguity to ultimate success. You will be responsible for aligning multiple teams and stakeholders, work closely with designers, engineers, marketing, and customer success and more to deliver value to our customers and business. 

As Product Managers, we are responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle - from discovery to feature definition and prioritization, product messaging, go-to-market strategies. We are also responsible to make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market and technical and business outcomes, communicating goals and KPIs, and desired outcomes. You have a proven track record of product management, experience driving strategy, and influencing executive leadership. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, approaches complex business questions with data and curiosity, and loves to dive below the surface to identify the root cause and help drive a path forward. 

What you'll be working on:

• Define the product direction and strategy for product areas you own
• Understand our customers, our products, and our competitors to identify needs & opportunities to advance our product and innovation.
• Lead your product team to design, build, and launch elegant features that solve customer problems.
• Own the end to end customer experience and be a constant bar raiser for improving and delivering excellent product solutions. 
• Define clear product metrics and set ambitious targets for your team.
• Closely collaborate with our Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience teams to understand their needs and to ensure that your roadmap is addressing customer needs. 

What we're looking for: (Job Requirements/Must have) 

• 5+ years experience in a Product Manager role at SaaS companies
• Demonstrated ability to define a user-centric long-term strategy supported by clear tactics and milestones
• Strong UX/UI sensibility  - a keen sense of design and bar for high quality UX and the impact it can have on customer outcomes. 
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills. Excited by the idea of managing multiple responsibilities at once and ruthlessly prioritizing the highest impact work
• An empathetic and attentive listener; someone who is committed to understanding and anticipating the needs of our customers and key stakeholders
• A proactive, self-starter; someone who can roll up their sleeves and solve problems on their own initiative.
• A data driven product manager who understands the right questions to ask and figures a path to get objective data to understand and inform the decisions we make.

Bonus Points:

• Work in a DTC (Direct to Consumer) experience or marketplace solutions would be a bonus - but not required.

Benefits and Perks

• Work-Life Balance
  • Flexible work from home policy
  • Unlimited PTO - Refuel and rest with our unlimited paid time-off policy.
  • 4 months of Paid Parental Leave - Aspire has an industry-leading parental leave policy for both mothers and fathers.
• Growth
  • Personalized career planning sessions
  • Mentorship program
  • Visibility into operations across the company

Our compensation philosophy: we use a market-based approach to compensation. This means we use a series of compensation tools to help us understand how companies value this role in the U.S. market based on function, level, geographic location, and positions benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location and candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above. We have competitive pay bands for all other countries based on market standards.

Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.