Principal Product Manager, Data
Levelset
Join us as a Principal Product Manager, Data in our Austin office, and be instrumental in helping achieve our vision to change behavior and revolutionize payment in the gigantic and increasingly tech-savvy construction industry.
A Principal Product Manager, Data at Levelset will be responsible for cross functional data analytics products to distribute our insightful data through various (API's & Streams) as well as consumer applications. You will be at the ground floor of standing up and maturing our analytics practice. You will have early influence on building out the teams, how organize the work streams, and establish development processes. Our construction data platform assembles, transforms, and loads large data sets (>10M) about US contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers, projects, payment documents, etc... across various internal and external sources (i.e. Saas applications and data systems, US County Clerk data). The scope of this data product lane is to make our raw data assets insightful using advanced analytics and data science to engage our end users. Our stack currently consists of technologies like MySQL, PHP, Neo4J, Redis and other modern tools in a highly scalable microservices architecture.
Responsibilities
- Collaboration and Decision Making
- Defining data analytics use cases and requirements gathering from both internal and external constituents to support both corporate and data roadmap KPI’s
- Accurately use key data and metrics to support assumptions, recommendations, and drive data product development
- Offer short and long terms data solutions to business problems from a data platform and data science perspective while balancing data complexity, data resource availability, and execution efforts
- Develop relationships with our customers (internal and external) to build empathy for their data needs, inform data product strategies, and develop new data product offerings
- Work cross functionally with data scientists, data engineers, data researchers, data analysts, and software engineers to identify and implement complex data systems, services, and pipelines
- Establish and Execute on Monthly / Quarterly Releases
- Release / user story grooming scoping (technical feasibility and data prepping / cleansing)
- Write technical data specs, create wireframes (as needed), prototypes, test plans, release checklists and communicate analytics enabled functionality
- Provide pre-development data analysis, data workflows / design, and systems analysis to improve development forecasting and improve development velocity
- Implement and enforce data quality processes through development / content (editorial) alignment
- Deliver on data analytics, machine learning, or data science enabled product feature sets and offerings
- Identify and fix process gaps around execution, roll-out, and ongoing support of data projects
Qualifications:
- Computer science degree or equivalent experience with high volume data aggregation and advanced analytics data products
- 7+ years in a technical data leadership / product management role working on data driven applications and / or tools (i.e. recommenders, auto-enrichment) and creating engaging UX
- 7+ years experience and fluency in SQL and/or other advanced query languages and data extraction tools; curiosity for data structures, data quality, and data management toolsets
- Have delivered on data enabled product offerings or feature sets using advanced analytics, machine learning, or data science techniques as a product manager or data science leader
- Analytical mindset with the ability to structure and process qualitative data and draw insightful conclusions
- Strong knowledge of statistics and machine learning concepts and theory
- Problem solver able to take a complex business request and transform it into a clean, simple data solution
- Quick learner and open to new ideas and technologies, and willing to offer creative data solutions
- Background in fintech, insuretech, or credit / risk domain is a plus
- Strong communication and leadership skills
About Levelset
Levelset has been named one of the "Best Places to Work" by New Orleans CityBusiness four years in a row for our mission-driven culture and commitment to internal and external growth. We are growing rapidly and looking for new exciting team members to add their unique talents to our mission. We empower contractors to always get what they earn, and our software platform makes lien rights, payment paperwork, and compliance in the construction industry simple and stress-free, so contractors and suppliers can get paid faster, have easier access to capital, and less surprises.
With the recent $500 Million acquisition by Procore, a leading provider of construction management software, Levelset will continue to empower people in construction to get payment under control, facilitating smooth payments and successful projects. Together both companies will deliver on our joint missions to improve the lives of everyone in construction even faster!
With offices in Austin, Texas, Cairo, Egypt and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana Levelset team is 350+ people and growing.
Why Levelset
- We’re a rapidly growing team working on interesting and worthwhile problems
- With a newly distributed workforce, we make engagement and employee wellness even more of a priority. We want you to love your job!
- We believe professional growth (i.e. building your skills) is essential. Working here provides the opportunity for increased responsibility, continuous learning, and more.
- We have a very welcoming culture that starts at the top with our CEO.
- Nothing is a secret here, we think honesty and transparency create a productive workplace.
- Recognition for hard work and demonstrating our core values is important to us.
Benefits
- Competitive health benefits, including mental, emotional, and behavioral health benefits and an easy to use Employee Assistance Program.
- Flexible sick & personal leave policy needed for health, family, and parenting during this tough time.
- Open vacation policy without a cap on the number of days-off. We do require employees to take a minimum of 5 days off in a row each year.
- Equity, per company’s general stock grant plan
- 401k account through Betterment which allows you to seamlessly save money for retirement directly from your paycheck
- Learning and Development Opportunities: In the spirit of our core value to Learn Enough, we offer a book reimbursement program. If you share what you learned from a book with the team, we'll reimburse you for it. We also provide ample room for learning and development opportunities through Coursera online courses, outside speakers, and opportunities to learn skills from your colleagues.
Levelset is committed to providing an environment where any and all people feel welcome, respected, and free to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identities, sexual orientation, educational background, religion, ethnicities, veteran status, and citizenships.
Full Time