Interfolio is on a mission to build smart, inspired and useful products for faculty and academic communities. By building an engine for faculty activity, decisions, and data, Interfolio has become the first mover in defining and owning the category of faculty-focused technology that cultivates goal-oriented collaboration around academic decision-making.

Interfolio operates the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work, from job seeking to review, tenure, sabbatical, committee work, research, and beyond. Offering colleges and universities increased clarity and insight into faculty data to help achieve their strategic initiatives, Interfolio believes that advancing the faculty will advance the institution.

What’s even better than that?

We’ve crafted a fun, collegial, dynamic culture that celebrates team and individual success almost daily. We’ve got a lean team of super-smart, super-hard working, local and remote colleagues who collaborate closely to produce a valuable service for an industry we’re passionate about. And, we genuinely like working with each other and with our clients

The Product team at Interfolio is a collaborative group dedicated to solving problems for faculty and administrators in higher education. We aim to deeply understand user friction points and continuously collaborate with our colleagues in Engineering and User Experience to create solutions to resolve these challenges, while remaining connected with our client-facing teams. Our products are designed to help solve the many challenges faculty and administrators face in higher education from hiring and retaining quality faculty members to reporting on their activities.

About the Role

As a Product Manager, you will help define the roadmap and vision for products in our data vertical including Faculty Activity Reporting, the Interfolio Data Service, and our growing platform. You will have a solid understanding of the customer and target market, ideally through direct experience in higher education. You will partner with User Experience and Engineering teams to propose and deliver features that resolve user pain points. You will work closely with client-facing teams to prioritize bugs and ideas for feature enhancements.

Responsibilities

A successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate Customer Focus: You will interact with customers to represent requirements and understand key customer needs and market basics.
• Be a data-informed decision maker. You are proficient at independently reviewing and utilizing sometimes conflicting data from various sources to make decisions.
• Participate in Go to Market & Product Marketing Lifecycle: You will execute on go to market launch plans as required by working works directly with internal business partners (e.g., Sales and Client Services teams)
• Are biased towards action: You will lead the execution of a product roadmap for your assigned feature area(s)
• Can demonstrate strategic, commercial, and technical acumen: You can make prioritization decisions based on our strategic and commercial goals (i.e., the why) while also being able to engage with your technical team on discovering the right approach (i.e., the how)

Requirements

• Have 2-4 years of experience in Product Management, ideally with a background in higher education or the EdTech landscape
• Work hours will be in eastern or central time zone
• Demonstrated ability to take a feature through the product lifecycle, from research and development to delivery
• Show excellent written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex content to a range of audiences
• Be able to adapt and flex to deliver multiple priorities in a rapidly changing product environment
• Have an ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders by fostering an environment of mutual trust.
• Preferred: Experience in the following programs— Jira, Monday.com, Sisense