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We need a top-notch Product Manager to come join our growing team at IK to lead our product development initiatives across all our platforms.
Who you are
- You have 7 - 12 years experience.
- You love the buzz of a highly productive and fast moving team.
- You’ve had 5+ years of experience developing and managing the product life cycle of world class products.
- You have your ear to the ground on what competitors are doing and look for partnership avenues.
- You work with Sales and Marketing to define our GTM strategy and the messaging around it.
- You work closely with Design and the tech team to build simple and elegant products.
- You integrate usability studies, market analysis and research into product requirements and your user stories and personas.
- You are looking to grow fast with a company that's on a rapid growth path.
What will excite us
- Previous startup experience or experience being part of early teams.
- You are highly metrics driven and love defining and measuring the success factors of products.
- You are a whiz at communicating with stakeholders, with users and with business partners and are deft at managing expectations.
- You love simplicity - in design, in user stories and in integrations.
- You love working with incredibly smart engineers.
- You are good at working with cross functional teams
- You are an excellent problem solver
What will excite you?
- Complete ownership
- Experiment, fail and learn.
- High pedigree, high caliber team.
- Contribute to every area of our business. Have a real impact with your work.
- Top of the line compensation.

About Interview Kickstart
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Interview Kickstart is currently the Gold Standard for Technical Interview Prep - nothing else comes close. We have helped more candidates get their dream jobs that anyone else, including many folks who have consistently failed interviews in the past. Our flagship platform UpLevel combines some of the best innovations in content, learning paths, videos, curriculum and assessments to create a powerful medium for students to become the best versions of themselves.
We are a growing team of passionate people who dream of creating the world's largest career upleveling platform, and we intend to build a company that will have a real, tangible impact on people's lives. We are profitable and are constantly on the lookout for the best of you to come join us.
Take a look at our open jobs and apply to the one that excites you. Our interview process is unique and is designed to help you succeed. We're looking forward to talking to you soon.
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