Product Manager - Legalfit

About the Company 

At Centerbase, you’ll get the best of both worlds: the fast-paced dynamo of startup-esque growth with the additional stability of a larger company. At our core, we provide legal software to mid-size law firms, helping them to meet the modern expectations of clients and legal professionals while reaching their optimal productivity and profitability levels. As a company, we look at ourselves as more than merely providing a software platform. We come to work every day dedicated to streamlining the client lifecycle, providing ingenuity and commonsense measures for both attorneys and the clients they serve.

About Legalfit, a Centerbase Company

At Legalfit, a Centerbase Company, we are passionate about helping attorneys and law firms be more successful by providing best-in-class, smart web marketing through our predictive platform. Legalfit is purpose-built for the legal industry and strives to partner with our customers so that they can do what they do best – practice law!

Our belief and commitment are built on 3 Centerbase core values:  

Own it with Action, Better Everyday, Win as One

About this Role:

Product Managers are leaders that push the envelope and move the needle. As key decision-makers at Centerbase, they combine their intellectual aptitude, business insight, analytical skills, and technical understanding to formulate strategies that support and strengthen the company’s overall vision. As a voice of the product and the user, they listen to concerns and needs while having a “knack” for what will work. The leadership they exhibit, by persuading and aligning management, stakeholders, & internal teams, enables their teams to design, develop, and deliver competitive products.

Responsibilities:

• Write clear and concise acceptance criteria, requirements, and user stories
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape user stories, groom, and prioritize the backlog
• Incorporate feature requests into product roadmaps
• Oversee implementation, coordinate tests, and observe initiation of the system to validate the performance
• Identify user needs, translate ideas into strategy and user stories,
• Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
• Develop and implement product strategies consistent with the company's vision
• Work with senior management to identify areas of opportunity, evaluate the competitive landscape, and create product plans and roadmaps
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan product releases, and clarify or update requirements
• Make creative recommendations to expand the product base and vision
• Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end-users
• Analyze preferences and requests of end-users & keep track of industry trends
• Communicates with radical candor about flaws in the product, process, and more
• Have operational knowledge of software products within the company
• Performs other job-related duties and responsibilities as assigned

Requirements:

• 1-3 years of previous experience as a Product Manager. Experience with software development and web technologies
• Experience in Legal tech is prefered but not required 
• Proficient in Agile software development methodologies and principles
• Experience leading and managing cross-functional agile teams that deliver user-facing products
• Solid ability to communicate effectively and at a relatable level with internal teams & all levels of management
• Ability to usually make correct sound decisions even in the presence of major ambiguity
• Ability to frame the right questions, evaluate multiple facets of a problem, derive solutions, and simulate possible outcomes
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Confident and have a knack for knowing what ideas will and won’t work
• Can empathize with the user(s) of the system to determine solutions that provide value
• Organizational and leadership abilities
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects

This is a remote position anywhere in the United States. Preference will be given to candidates in the Dallas, TX and Kansas City, KS/MO metros.