Product Manager

We're building a movement - an education revolution. We're building a world where anyone, anywhere can have access to the best education regardless of where they were born. At our core, we believe education is a right, not a privilege. To that end, we're building a company and a suite of products to lead the charge in transforming access to education.

ApplyBoard is an online platform that empowers students around the world to access the best education by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions. We simplify the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process. Not only do we help students with their study abroad journey, but we also help academic institutions to find the best students globally. Our goal is to help enable better, more diverse, schools that are enriched with cultures from all over the world.

The Role:

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager to join us in building the future of EdTech and ultimately help students find success throughout their education journey. As a member of the Product team, you will play a critical role in defining, communicating, and executing the product vision and strategy across a variety of product areas. Our PMs work across multiple functional groups to define and deliver new products and features, as well as identify opportunities to improve.

As a Product Manager within the FinTech team, you will play a critical role in defining and executing the product vision and strategy that empowers ApplyBoard to provide compelling financial systems and products that help remove the financial barriers in the goal of education as a fundamental right.

What you'll be doing every day:

• Own the strategic roadmap for your domain, continuously critiquing the direction and delivery of key initiatives
• Identify new initiatives that improve customer experience and drive growth, prioritizing them, moving them through concept phases and socializing with key stakeholders
• Work closely with your Engineering, Design and Data Science counterparts to translate the product roadmap into detailed requirements and prototypes ready for execution
• Be a champion in defining and measuring the impact of your product through data and sentiment analysis
• Acts as a product evangelist to build awareness and alignment company wide
• Drive product launches alongside Marketing, Executives, and other product management team members

What you bring to the table:

• 4+ years experience as a Product Owner/ Business Analyst building customer-impactful products at software company
• 2+ years experience with merchant, consumer payments or financial management technology
• 2+ years experience in an e-commerce enterprise
• Technically savvy and comfortable working with a team of developers to understand the challenges and trade offs that come with building your product so that you are able to agree on the best approach
• Experience building products from the ground up; from ideation to launch and beyond
• Understanding of products within a multi-sided marketplace
• Solid technical understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development life cycle, web technologies and agile methodologies
• Proven ability to develop product strategies, effectively communicating recommendations to senior leadership teams
• Strong ability to explore an ambiguous problem space, identify user segmentation, related opportunities, and prioritize solutions
• Exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• MS/BS degree in Finance, Business, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

Ideally, you also have experience with some of:

• Creating low-fidelity wireframes and working closely with UI/UX designers
• Experience with agile methodologies and working with engineering teams to define your roadmap and deliverables
• Payment systems - including credit card processors, eWallets, and other methods of payment
• Backend financial systems (GL, AP, AR, etc).
• Consumer promotion and rewards systems
• Foreign money transactions
• B2B Pay-In/Pay-Out systems

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What We Offer:

• The opportunity to have an impact on a product that is positively affecting change to thousands of students lives every day
• Working alongside a brilliant and globally diverse team based in Waterloo and Toronto
• Great compensation and benefits package to keep you healthy and happy!
• Thank you for your interest in ApplyBoard, however, only those applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.

At ApplyBoard, we understand the value of having a diverse team. That's why we believe in providing equal opportunity regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, and conviction. Please let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process.

Life at ApplyBoard:

By joining our team, you have the opportunity to:

• Join the fastest-growing technology company in Canada, with many opportunities for growth and advancement
• Work alongside a globally diverse team of over 1,600 team members based in 18 countries, who represent over 30 nationalities and speak more than 40 languages
• Make a difference in the lives of thousands of students as they explore educational opportunities
• Want to learn more about Life at ApplyBoard, and be sure to follow us on our Life at ApplyBoard Instagram.

About ApplyBoard:

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process to more than 1,500 institutions across Canada, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. ApplyBoard, headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has helped more than 200,000 students from more than 125 countries along their educational journeys since 2015.

ApplyBoard was named the fastest-growing technology company in Canada by Deloitte, ranking #1 on the Technology Fast 50? list in 2019 and #2 in 2020. ApplyBoard was also been named to LinkedIn's list of Top Startups in 2020 and TechTO's list of top Canadian Rocketship companies to accelerate your career in the Tech Industry.

In 2021, ApplyBoard announced a C$375M Series D funding on a C$4B valuation. This funding will allow us to further invest in our technology, grow our team around the world, and serve more students on our mission to educate the world. Thank you for your interest in ApplyBoard. Please note that only qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.