Principal Product Manager (SaaS)
Location: San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
Blooma is the leading AI-powered digital underwriting platform for commercial real estate lending. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to direct product development and ensure high return on investment. You’ll translate ideas into user stories and execute the product roadmap.
This is a high-profile role working in a fast-paced environment and demands a dynamic individual with great communications skills, acumen and the ability to assimilate lots of information quickly. We are looking for a strong candidate with proven experience in SaaS B2B products, along with specific subject matter expertise in commercial real estate, banking, prop tech, or other fintech.
Responsibilities
- Document requirements and write user epics and stories
- Maintain and groom backlog
- Help define product strategy and competitive positioning
- Work with management and key stakeholders to understand objectives & key problems, and transform them into product roadmaps, business and functional requirements, as well as technical specifications
- Have a high degree of creativity and innovation with a proven track record in working on complex projects
- Drive product and feature development through the agile scrum process
- Understand and practice product management best practices by evaluating each new product feature for usability, simplicity, maintainability, and ROI
- Create streamlined user experiences that promote product adoption and stickiness
- Serve as scrum product owner in a development scrum team
- Identify workflow bottlenecks and streamline processes
- Drive the implementation of new features, as well as resolve operational issues
- Monitor and incorporate industry and technology innovations into the product roadmap
Required Experience
- 5+ years of software (SaaS/B2B) Product Management experience is a MUST
- Background in at least one of the following a strong advantage: banking, financial services, credit analysis, asset management, commercial real estate
- Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent SaaS products
- Experience with agile, requirements, and scrum tools (JIRA)
- Business analysis experience, including requirements gathering, use cases, user stories, and producing clear and concise documentation
- Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent
- History of leveraging product adoption data and/or customer insights to drive strong product adoption
Required Skills
- Strong attention to detail and an unwavering commitment to quality
- Communicates openly and effectively in a manner consistent with the audience
- Excellent customer service skills – the ability to be empathetic, accurate, compassionate, responsive, resourceful, and conscientious
- Demonstrates an adaptive style that is flexible and effective in gaining cooperation of both technical and non-technical people
- Self-managed, proactive and entrepreneurial with the ability to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced environment
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies, values, and procedures
- Ability to run dynamic meeting, keeping schedule and agenda on point
- Adaptable and flexible
- Self-starter with a solutions-oriented attitude
- Excellent communicator
