Position Summary
The Senior Product Manager at Assent is a leader and end to end owner of product success accountable for identifying high-impact opportunities making sound investment decisions and ensuring meaningful value is realized for both customers and the business.
You will lead the end to end strategy for Assents high growth B2B SaaS emerging data network platform managing a suite of emerging product capabilities. This role requires a balanced strong commercial judgment deep customer insights cross-functional leadership and the ability to synthesize insights from data and the market into clear execution plans. .
Assent operates in a uniquely complex and meaningful domain at the intersection of global supply chains product compliance sustainability and data. Our products increasingly rely on large-scale data automation and AI-enabled capabilities to help customers navigate evolving regulatory requirements with confidence. If you are energized by solving hard real-world problems with real consequences and motivated by building products that make the world more responsible and transparent this role offers both challenge and purpose.
Key Requirements & Responsibilities
Strategic Ownership & Market Opportunity
Drive Product Strategy: Own the end-to-end product vision and strategy for your portfolio ensuring alignment with Assents broader business objectives and long-term growth targets.
Opportunity Identification: Identify size and prioritize high-impact opportunities by synthesizing customer insights competitive intelligence product analytics and win/loss data.
Data-Driven Business Cases: Clearly articulate the Why and What behind every initiative that defines the customer problem unique differentiation business value (ROI) and measurable success metrics (KPIs).. Develop concise product requirements documentation (PRDs) that also include user workflows and data constriants.
Market Intelligence: Serve as the resident expert on market trends and competitive dynamics. Conduct continuous Voice of the Customer (VOC) research through advisory boards interviews and market analysis to identify unaddressed needs.
Execution & Portfolio Alignment
Roadmap Leadership: Translate strategy into a high-integrity roadmap. Define key features capabilities and timelines that balance short-term wins with long-term platform scalability. Work effectively with Product Owners to ensure user flows logic/rules data constraints and success metrics are robust for writing stories.
Lifecycle Management: Lead cross-functional teams through the full product lifecyclefrom initial discovery and business case development to MVP beta trials and full-scale GTM launches and ongoing enhancements. This includes migration strategies from legacy to new platforms.
Ecosystem Collaboration: Partner closely with fellow Product Leaders to manage dependencies sequence releases and ensure a cohesive user experience across the entire Assent portfolio.
Product Evangelism: Act as the primary internal and external champion for your product line. Influence stakeholders across Sales Marketing and Engineering to ensure the solution effectively meets both user needs and commercial goals.
Data-Centric & AI-Enabled Innovation
Master the Data Ecosystem: Develop a deep technical understanding of Assents complex data environment including supply chain intelligence regulatory content and customer-generated signals to unlock new product value.
Drive Intelligent Automation: Identify and champion opportunities where advanced analytics automation and AI/ML can meaningfully improve customer scalability efficiency and decision-making.
Build Trustworthy Solutions: Partner with Engineering Data Science and Design to architect intelligent features that balance technical rigor with transparency and world-class usability.
Navigate Complexity: Thrive in ambiguity; lead the delivery of resilient product capabilities despite evolving global regulations and imperfect data sets.
Product Craft & Execution Excellence
Lead Discovery & Design: Orchestrate the discovery process with Design and Engineering to ensure every solution is not only technically feasible but also highly desirable and commercially viable.
Synthesize Complexity: Distill intricate market requirements into clear authoritative documentation that serves as the source of truth for cross-functional execution.
High-Integrity Delivery: Partner with Product Owners to translate high-level strategy into well-structured epics and stories. Actively guide delivery through continuous scope refinement and decisive trade-offs.
Validate & Iterate: Oversee Pilot and Early Access phases using rigorous data analysis and direct customer feedback to evaluate success and inform the path to General Availability (GA).
Cross-Functional Influence & Advocacy
GTM Partnership: Collaborate with Product Marketing and Sales to define value-based pricing sharp positioning and high-impact launch strategies that drive rapid market adoption.
Expert Communication: Clearly articulate roadmaps trade-offs and outcomes to both technical internal teams and high-profile external stakeholders.
Product Championship: Serve as the primary advocate for your product line balancing vision with a data-driven response to stakeholder feedback.
Operational Health: Support critical customer escalations with a sense of urgency ensuring immediate resolutions align with the long-term health and architecture of the product.
Qualifications :
Your Knowledge Skills and Abilities
We strongly value your talent energy and passion. It will also be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications
Senior SaaS Leadership: 58 years of Product Management experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS data environment with a proven track record of driving commercial outcomes (revenue retention PLG) rather than just shipping features.
AI & Data Fluency: A strong data-centric mindset with the ability to define and execute opportunities in AI and Machine Learning to solve customer pain points.
Product Craft & Judgment: Mastery of the product discovery process within empowered teams. You possess strong product judgment and are comfortable making high-stakes decisions with imperfect information and navigating ambiguity.
Strategic Communication: Exceptional verbal and written skills. You can distill complex roadmaps for internal stakeholders and present with high-credibility in front of global customers.
Collaborative Influence: A lead-by-influence mindset. You can navigate cross-functional teams (Engineering Sales Marketing) and contribute to the collective success of the broader Product Org.
Education & Certification: Bachelors degree in Business Engineering or a related field; Pragmatic Marketing certification or an MBA is highly preferred.
Domain Expertise (Plus): Familiarity with supply chain manufacturing or regulated industries (e.g. ESG compliance). Experience with complex data structures like BOMs mapping and ERP/API integrations is a significant advantage.
Global Mobility: Ability to travel up to 25% to engage with customers and global teams.
Mission-Driven: A genuine desire to build products that create a resilient sustainable and positive real-world impact.
Why top Product Managers choose this role
Real ownership and meaningful decision-making authority to a high growth scaling portfolio
A strong collaborative Product Management team shaping strategy together
Complex high-stakes problems powered by data and intelligent automation
A mission-driven domain with global reach and real-world consequences
Talented cross-functional partnerships and leadership opportunities
Additional Information :
Life at Assent
Wellness: We believe that you and your familys well being is important. As a result we offer vacation time that increases with tenure comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country) life leave days and more.
Financial Benefits: Its not all about the money well its a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary a corporate bonus program retirement savings options and more.
Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.
Lifelong Learning: At Assent curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.
At Assent we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included valued and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included treated with dignity and respect promoted on their merits and placed in positions to contribute to business success.
If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process please contact and we will be happy to help.
We use AI to support parts of our recruitment process such as note-taking and initial shortlisting based on job-related qualifications. AI does not make hiring decisions. All candidates will speak with a real person and final decisions are always made by our recruitment team.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
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