Associate Product Manager
The Associate Product Manager at Confidential Client is an entry-level role focused on supporting the full product lifecycle of innovative mobility solutions. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to conduct market research, define product requirements, support agile development, analyze product performance, and assist in product launch and commercialization efforts. This position offers a structured career development path toward product leadership within the smart mobility sector.
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Role summary
Confidential Client is hiring an Associate Product Manager (entry-level) to join a product team building mobility, payments, and SaaS solutions. This role is based in Norcross, GA and offers hands-on exposure to the full product lifecycle: discovery, requirements, delivery, launch, and analytics. The position is an excellent fit for recent graduates or early-career professionals who enjoy analytics, cross-functional collaboration, and learning modern product practices.
What You’ll Do
- Support customer and market discovery: conduct interviews, synthesize feedback, and analyze market/competitive data.
- Help define product vision and roadmap priorities with Product Managers.
- Translate customer needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements.
- Assist with backlog management, sprint planning, and agile ceremonies.
- Participate in feature reviews, testing, and release-readiness activities.
- Build dashboards and reports to measure product performance, adoption, and KPIs.
- Support product launches and go-to-market readiness including documentation and training materials.
- Coordinate across Engineering, UX, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Operations to drive execution.
- Contribute to financial and business analysis for prioritization and investment decisions.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, Economics, or a related field.
- 0–5 years of professional experience (entry-level to early career).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable working with data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint).
- Curious, proactive, and eager to learn product development and commercialization.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to travel occasionally as business needs require.
Preferred
- Internship, co-op, academic project, or work experience in product management, software, analytics, consulting, or mobility/transportation.
- Exposure to Agile methodologies.
- Experience with data analysis, reporting, or visualization tools.
- Familiarity with product tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Figma, or Miro.
- Interest in transportation technology, smart cities, mobility payments, or platform SaaS products.
What success looks like (first 12 months)
- Contribute to multiple initiatives from discovery through launch.
- Deliver user stories and requirements used by engineering teams.
- Produce customer and market insights that influence roadmap decisions.
- Build foundational expertise in mobility technology, SaaS, and payments.
- Become a trusted cross-functional contributor and position for advancement to Product Manager roles.
Key competencies
- Product thinking and customer centricity
- Analytical problem solving and data-driven decision making
- Business acumen and strategic curiosity
- Communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration and project management
- Learning agility, adaptability, and ownership mindset
Work environment & accommodations
- Primarily an office-based role in Norcross, GA with standard desk work, computer use, and occasional collaboration meetings.
- Confidential Client complies with federal and state disability laws and provides reasonable accommodation for qualified employees with disabilities. If you need accommodations during the hiring process, please let Careertakes know.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
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