Senior Product Manager, Partner

About Niche

Niche is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students, by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply.

Niche is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day. We want Niche to be a place where people truly enjoy working and can thrive professionally.

About The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated Product Manager to join our team and lead a product team focused on partner fulfillment. Niche helps guide students and families through the school search process and helps connect interested searchers with schools and colleges. This role is dedicated to the partner onboarding experience and inventory management, creating the best connections between searchers and school partners. 

What You Will Do

For this role, you’ll work closely with the Product Development Organization and other key stakeholders, such as sales and operations, to understand our users, partners, and internal needs to inform the prioritization of backlogs. Additionally, you will act as the product owner on a product team working closely with the team’s designers, and developers to build and regularly release using agile methodology. Lastly, you will be responsible for analysis and reporting to validate and inform development and strategic initiatives.

During the First Month:

• Learn about Niche by meeting with various team members to learn more about our company through our Onboarding meetings
• Collaborate with various team members to learn about the company
• Work with members of the Product Management and Operations teams to begin to understand the current state of partner onboarding and inventory management
• Attend product team meetings to begin to understand the workflow and build relationships across the product development organization 
• Collaborate with product managers and project managers across the Product department to learn about our tools, workflow, and analytical process
• Shadow product management team members to learn more about how we collaborate with other areas of the business and how your role fits with external stakeholders and teams

Within 3 Months: