Senior Product Manager

Job Description

This is a full-time, remote position. Please note that at this time, we can only hire in the following locations: United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, United Kingdom. At Help Scout, we make support software that empowers more than 12,000 customer-centric businesses to serve people in the most human, helpful way. We're a remote company with 125+ employees in over 80 cities worldwide — and we've been remote-first from day one . We believe that when teams represent different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, magic happens. The result is better products and a culture that enables everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. As a Certified B Corporation , we are using business as a force for good. We are held accountable for inclusive, sustainable practices and their impact on our team, customers, community and the environment.

The opportunity

• Ha Nguyen says, “Build products customers love — not like. It’s not ‘nice’ or ‘fine.’ People have to love it so much they’ll tell their friends about it. That’s when you know you’ve hit gold.”
• Ever worked on a product where the requirements were dictated to you? Not at Help Scout. We believe in human-centred design, autonomous teams, and the customer breaking the tie. This means you will be working on a cross-functional team with engineering and design, which shares the same focus: learning from our customers and using that knowledge to decide what problems to solve and how to solve them. This is why we look for practitioners who are experienced design thinkers, good at understanding people and driven by the love of building products that customers love.

About the role

• Starting with qualitative and quantitative research and partnering with Sales, Customer Success and Marketing, your job is to lead your team in deeply understanding the problems you need to solve for our customers.
• You will leverage product synthesis frameworks such as personas, journey maps, interview breakdowns, and other methodologies to create clear insights around which the team can make decisions.
• Writing insightful, clear, and helpful product briefs is part of daily work that ensures everyone on the team has the context they need.
• You will be the voice of the business within the team. You deeply understand the market, emerging trends, and where the business opportunities lie and use this to inform vision, prioritization, roadmap, and strategy.
• You will spend most of your time working hands-on with cross-functional design and engineering teams to design solutions and deliver value to our customers that also make sense for Help Scout.
• You'll be responsible for successfully launching everything the team ships, which means being accountable for the solution's quality and impact on both customers and the business. You'll define meaningful outcomes and measure results against those standards to ensure we're always meeting our high standards of excellence.
• You provide thought leadership, iterating tools, processes, and techniques to help define better ways of working, taking advantage of technological advancements and cutting-edge practices.
• Salary: We have an internal transparent salary matrix for each team. Read more about how we approach compensation here !

About you

• You are a skilled facilitator and collaborator with high emotional intelligence. You know the best results happen when a team has psychological safety and works well together. You constantly inspire them by providing context(the why) and strong evidence of the customer and business value of their work.
• You are driven by making things people love to use. You are excited by solving complex problems in the simplest possible way and know what tools to apply when to get there.
• You can identify what a great product looks and feels like and have the confidence to challenge the team to produce the best possible result when you know it’s not up to standard.
• You are thoughtful, organized, and disciplined. You have a bias to action; take the initiative and ownership to see things through to completion.
• You’re comfortable and confident in a remote work setting.

Your experience

• A strong track record of employing human-centred design in discovering and delivering successful digital customer experiences with cross-functional teams.
• Leading with qualitative and quantitative customer research.
• Facilitating team collaboration and problem-solving.
• Managing the balance between business and customer needs.
• An analytical approach to understanding performance and testing new features.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to take complex and technical subjects and break them down using clear, straightforward writing.
• Experience or understanding of how to work and collaborate with a remote, distributed team.

Who you'll work with

• Kelly May - Director of Product Management (Direct Manager)
• JC Cousins - Engineering Coach
• Kylie Dunkley - Senior Product Designer
• Zu Sekerova - Senior Product Manager
• Cameron Mitchell - Product Support Analyst
The team can't wait to meet you!

A note about time zones

• You’re located between UTC-5 and UTC+1. You must be able to work hours that overlap with the core hours of the Communications team, which are 11 am - 3 pm EST.

#LI-Remote Benefits Competitive salary - Our salary formula is public to all employees (but doesn't divulge your specific salary) and we update it at least once per year. Your salary is the same no matter where you live. Our goal is to pay at or above the market rate of a US-based tech hub like Boston or Seattle. Health and dental insurance - We cover you and your family's health/dental insurance 100%. If you are based in the US, we'll cover you on our Aetna policy. If you're based outside the US, we'll reimburse your out-of-pocket health and dental insurance costs. Long-term/short-term disability insurance & life insurance - we cover 100% of the premiums for LT/ST disability insurance and base life insurance. You also have the option to purchase supplementary life insurance through our provider (currently US only). Flexible vacation - Take time off when you need it! We recommend 3-4 weeks in addition to public holidays, but there are no firm rules. We trust you. Sabbatical - After you've been at Help Scout for 4 years, you get a month of paid vacation (in addition to regular vacation) and $2,500 to spend towards travel, learning, projects or anything else during your time off. Read about what our CEO did. Paid parental leave, including adoption and foster care - 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents. 401k with 1% match - via Betterment for Business (currently US only) Personal Development stipend - Up to $1,800 per year to improve your craft Bonuses - everyone is eligible to receive a quarterly bonus up to 8% based on shared company revenue goals. Set you up for success — we’ll get every new teammate a Mac laptop or equivalent of their choice, and provide a $1500 stipend so you can feel ready to work from home. We also cover up to $350 USD per month if you'd like to rent a co-working desk somewhere. Complete transparency - Everyone has full access to business metrics and financial information about the company. About Us Help Scout is made by roughly 160 people in 80+ cities around the world, all with a passion for helping others. We come from diverse backgrounds and are united by an enthusiasm for great products and delightful customer experiences. Help Scout launched in 2011 and today we have more than 12,000 paying customers in 140+ countries. Why Help Scout? We're remote. It doesn’t matter if you’ve worked remotely before — we’ve been doing it for nearly a decade and are helping to write the playbook — we’re happy to show you the ropes. Most folks that get a taste of working in a "remote first" company have a hard time going back to the old way of doing things. We’re passionate about diversity and inclusion. The data is abundantly clear about diverse teams being more successful, and we're dedicated to setting the team up for success. Today our leadership team is 62% women, and that's just the start. Here's our DEI Dashboard where you can see all of our team demographic data and read about our commitment to this work. We're committed to SMBs for the long term. Help Scout is focused entirely on serving small and midsize businesses, typically up to 500 employees, because those companies view customer service differently. It's not a cost to be optimized, it's their most effective marketing tool and a key differentiator from the competition. We built Help Scout for companies that truly value being customer-centric (like us) and want a product that shares their values. We're leaving the world better than we found it. Did you know Help Scout is a certified B Corporation, with a mission to give away at least 1% of our product through Help Scout for Good ? Our company exists not just to help ourselves, but to invest in our team, our customers, our community, and our environment. Our commitment to you We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a company that embraces and celebrates diversity and inclusion . We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We have read the studies and understand that diverse teams build better products, bring more perspective to the table, contribute to a company’s financial success and help foster a more inclusive environment for all employees, but the bottom line is that it's the right thing to do. Apply for this job