Product Manager

Obsidian Systems is looking for Product Managers!

About us:
Obsidian Systems is an end-to-end software product consultancy that specializes in solving real-world problems. We serve everyone from recently funded startups bringing their dream to life to large institutions needing innovative solutions to longstanding problems. We have been deploying products and honing our processes for over a decade and are leaders in the field of implementing sophisticated applications to a wide variety of platforms—from mobile to the cloud and everything in-between.

Unlike giant faceless firms or status quo maintainers, Obsidian Systems offers a fresh perspective on process, a delightfully eager approach to learning the client's domain, and a technology stack that has proven to be highly effective. Our technology choices and commitment to repeatable processes make the software we design and deploy easier to maintain and extend, cheaper to own, and most importantly, more adaptable to change.

We're based in New York but we're a distributed, remote-friendly workplace.

About the role:
Product Managers at Obsidian play a vital role both in our client relationships and our internal management. PMs dive deeply into client domains to ensure that we have stakeholder-level understanding of the software we're going to build. A typical deep-dive involves an understanding of the client's: product idea, business requirements, timeline, stakeholders, competitive landscape, designs, and user profiles. The aim is not just to transcribe what the client wants, but to collaborate with them in designing a product that's true to their vision and within their constraints.

PMs are responsible for conveying this evolving product to our internal design and engineering teams so that detailed technical planning can take place and, ultimately, so that we can execute on the vision. As we iterate on the software, PMs take results back to the client and iterate on the vision: the two are interdependent.

A process, like a piece of software, is never finished. You can always find ways to improve it, to resolve bugs, to get that extra bit of efficiency. We take pride in the processes we've developed over time, but we're always looking for further improvements. As a PM at Obsidian, you'd play an important role in shaping the future of our process organization-wide.

About you:
Given the breadth of industries, technologies, and clients we work with, we highly value intellectual curiosity, clear thinking, and constant questioning. We need PMs who are able to learn quickly and are not afraid to jump into fields new to them, who are excited about being at the beginning of things, and who derive satisfaction from steering things from vision to reality.

We're looking for some combination of experience designing, building, or managing a technology product or team, but we're also open to other experiences that demonstrate your ability to succeed in this role.

Benefits:

A competitive benefits package is available for full-time employees.

Applying:
Along with your resume, please submit a cover letter of no more than 125 words.