Senior Product Manager

Join Acuity Insights’ startup-to-scaleup journey as a Senior Product Manager. In this fully remote role, you’ll play a pivotal role in helping scale a company with high global growth potential in the higher education sector - and beyond.

You’ll work on innovative, market-leading assessment products that identify and showcase people's potential, shaping the academic journeys of thousands of future professionals.

This role is ideal for a data-driven and delivery-focused product manager with strong foundational practises, user empathy, and a solid grasp of design and engineering who is looking to be part of a people-centric company that prioritizes work-life balance, invests in professional growth, and creates socially impactful products.

What We’re Building

Imagine a world powered by everyone’s FULL potential. 

At Acuity Insights, it’s the future we are building. 

We founded our company to meet the need for a higher education admissions method that goes beyond academic performance and considers traditionally unseen or undervalued skills and qualities in applicants that are predictive of educational and professional success. 

Today, our solutions help discover, nurture and realize potential, supporting holistic success from admissions to graduation for students, education programs, and higher education institutions across North America, the U.K., Australia and Saudi Arabia.

Our core assessment product, Casper, provides education programs with a more holistic view of applicants' potential by measuring their soft skills. Incorporating Casper's insights into the admissions process results in a larger and more diverse applicant pool, greater student success, and better professionals. Since 2014, over 600 higher education programs have adopted Casper, and more than 1 million applicants have registered for the test.

Through our core education management solution, One45, we help medical schools and health professions programs streamline the complex processes of curriculum management and student assessments, providing the data-driven insights needed to graduate competent healthcare professionals.

With our fast-growing data and insights solution, Analytics, we leverage critical integrations with our data warehouse and powerful dashboards to provide medical schools with deep insights and intelligence on student and program performance, powering real-time decision-making and continuous quality improvement.

Opportunity & Impact

As Senior Product Manager, you’ll work remotely from Canada, be a valued member of our Product organization, report to the Director of Product - Assessments, partner with Product Management and Product Marketing Manager peers on the Assessment team, and collaborate with team members from Design, Engineering, Research, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.

You'll spearhead the launch of our innovative new suite of talent assessment tools. These include solutions designed to evaluate candidates' soft skills and communication styles (both verbal and nonverbal) and track their development throughout students’ educational journeys. You'll be instrumental in bringing these groundbreaking tools to market, shaping the future of talent evaluation and development.

Additionally, the products you lead will drive revenue growth and support our long-term goal of becoming the global leader in identifying, developing, and showcasing people’s potential in higher education and workplaces.

As part of our Product team, you will contribute to building a world-class product management function. Leveraging the product management expertise you’ve built, you get to introduce, lead, and implement change, like improvements to how we develop roadmaps and conduct daily scrum ceremonies. You'll help figure out how we can move faster from problem statement to prototype and consistently hit quarterly release targets. Plus, you'll support our ongoing adoption of PDLC to accelerate product time to market so product innovations can be a more significant contributor to revenue growth.  

As a Senior Product Manager, your key areas of day-to-day contribution are: 

Collaboration & Communication

• Drive cross-functional alignment: Lead collaborative efforts with design, engineering, marketing, and sales teams to ensure a shared understanding of product goals, strategies, and priorities.
• Champion the user: Actively engage with users and key stakeholders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and effectively communicate product updates and progress.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies: Expertly guide stand-ups, sprint planning, and backlog grooming sessions to foster a collaborative and efficient development process.
• Translate vision into action: Distill complex product features into clear, concise user stories and acceptance criteria for the development team.

Strategy & Planning

• Shape product vision: Define and refine the product vision and roadmap by staying abreast of market trends, analyzing user needs, and incorporating data-driven insights.
• Prioritize strategically: Prioritize features and define product requirements based on a deep understanding of user value and business objectives.
• Analyze and iterate: Continuously analyze product data and metrics to assess performance, identify areas for improvement, and inform product strategy.

Execution & Delivery

• Own the product lifecycle: Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and discovery to development, launch, and post-launch optimization.
• Guide the development process: Manage the product backlog, conduct user testing, and gather feedback to ensure the product meets user needs and expectations.
• Launch with impact: Coordinate product launches and marketing campaigns to drive user adoption and achieve business goals.
• Measure and optimize: Track and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success and ensure alignment with business objectives.

To thrive in this role, you:

• Operate as a senior-level product manager and have built expertise in core product management practices like discovery and problem identification, roadmapping, scope management, and agile delivery.
• Have worked within a strong product management function in a technology company, consultancy or boutique agency and have developed a point of view on what effective product management looks like. 
• Developed SaaS B2B or B2C product roadmaps and delivered products with over 10,000 monthly active users.
• Are naturally inclined to focus on delivery and speed and have taken a product from idea to market in 6 months or less or brought a feature, MVP, or product line to production in under 3 months. 
• Excel at effectively communicating with partners, influencers and decision-makers and adapting to your audience. You have pitched product ideas to business leaders, stood up to and persuaded people with strong opinions, can express your ideas and feelings through different forms and listen to diverse input to influence product decisions. 
• Have a strong understanding of design practices and recognize that a good UX/UI resonates with the majority of users. You’ve collaborated closely with product designers and have led design sprints.
• Bring deep knowledge of engineering practices, including CI/CD and modified scrum focusing on high-quality and timely delivery of usable products.
• Demonstrate deep care and empathy for the end users your product serves and fully commit to its success by doing whatever is within your control to ensure its growth and impact. 

Selection Process

We review every application. We consider all your professional experiences and how you have applied your skills and knowledge to add value and make an impact. We also look for evidence that you are naturally caring, curious, driven, and resilient in rapidly changing environments.

To ensure a fair process, you will receive equal consideration whether you apply, get introduced as a referral, or directly contact the manager or recruiter for this role.

Applicants who do not live in Canada or have a work permit will automatically be disqualified.

Interview Process

We have designed our interview process to be a two-way discovery and create space for meaningful conversations.

We want to get to know you personally and professionally, understand your career journey and experiences, relevant skills, professional interests and priorities, and assess your alignment with our business needs and what we can offer you.

We also want you to have the information you need to make an informed decision about this opportunity. That’s why we encourage you to stay curious and ask questions every step of the way. 

Here are the steps you can expect:

• Application Review. A human reviews your application for potential and fit.
• Conversation with Recruiter. Have a 60-minute phone call during which you get to share your professional journey, career interests and priorities and learn in-depth about the company, culture, and team.
• Meet the Product Leaders. Spend up to 45 minutes with each of our two Product leaders. These video conversations will focus on your product management practices, and you’ll get more insights into the Product team and life at Acuity Insights. 
• Meet Peer & Collaborators + Manager AMA. Meet with members of the Software Development and Product Marketing teams, to explore how you’ll collaborate and learn more about life Acuity Insights, followed by a Q&A session with your potential manager.
• Wait For a Decision. The Hiring Manager consolidates and evaluates feedback from the team to make a hiring decision. This typically takes 2-4 days.
• Offer & Reference Check. If we find a mutual match, we'll invite you to an offer conversation. The offer is contingent on completing a reference check. 

Compensation 

Several factors will inform our offer: your unique qualifications, experience, expected contributions and salary needs, market data, budget, and internal pay equity.

The target annual compensation for this role is $120,000 to $140,000 CAD. While this range does not represent the full Senior Individual Contributor salary band, it reflects the budget allocated to fill this position. 

Benefits From Day 1

• Flexible and remote work. Have the freedom to work from anywhere within Canada and work from abroad for up to 6 weeks per year, and configure your schedule and work hours to best suit you. 
• Prioritize rest and time off. Join the team in our two-week year-end company closure, enjoy flexible, self-directed vacation (most take 4-6 weeks annually), and enjoy an extra Friday off each month from February to November.
• Invest in your growth. Access a $3,000 yearly learning budget to support your professional and personal development. 
• Stake in the company. Become a partial owner of Acuity Insights when you join, sharing in long-term value creation and financial success through our employee stock option plan.
• Save for retirement. Join our GRSP matching program through Wealthsimple. We match contributions up to 2% of your salary. 
• Support for health & wellness. Access comprehensive health benefits for yourself and your dependents through Equitable Life of Canada and Nivati to nurture and enhance your holistic health and well-being. 
• Grow your family. Take parental leave, regardless of your role in expanding your family, and receive a top-up for 16 weeks beyond EI benefits.

Life & People at Acuity Insights

At Acuity Insights, you’ll be part of a community of over 125 professionals, mostly based in Canada. While we primarily collaborate remotely, our team members connect socially and occasionally co-work in person in our larger people pockets, too.  

Human Qualities That Help People Thrive at Acuity

Our team is built on a set of shared values: caring, curious, and driven. We value people who show empathy, listen actively, and act with integrity. We want our team members to be naturally curious and open to exploring new ideas and viewpoints and bring urgency and creativity to problem-solving. Our team thrives on continuous improvement, resilience in the face of changes around us, and self-awareness. Above all, we believe in purposeful work that aligns with our shared values and makes the world a better place. 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Belonging

We strive to create a workplace where every person feels respected, valued, and fully supported. Our workplace and supporting policies are designed to foster a culture of belonging, equity, and work-life balance. We embrace the unique strengths and lived experiences each team member brings, recognizing that diversity enriches our environment and drives our success.

We encourage applicants from non-traditional backgrounds or historically marginalized and underrepresented groups to join us.

Thanks for considering Acuity Insights as your next employer!