Junior Product Manager (REMOTE)
The Junior Product Manager at Confidential Client is responsible for defining and evolving customer segmentation products that enable the organization to understand and act on meaningful customer groups. This role involves translating business needs into a clear product vision and roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable segmentation capabilities, and driving adoption across analytics and personalization functions in a fully remote, contract-to-hire position.
About Careertakes
👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, IT Services and IT Consulting.
Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.
What You’ll Do
This is a remote, contract-to-hire Product Management role focused on customer segmentation and analytics capabilities. As the Junior Product Manager (Customer Segmentation), you will:
- Define and evolve product vision, roadmap, and backlog for enterprise segmentation capabilities aligned to business priorities.
- Lead discovery and prioritize use cases based on customer needs, strategic alignment, feasibility, and business value.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into clear product requirements and an MVP scope that balances value, risk, and dependencies.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders — business, data, analytics, technology, architecture, and governance — to design and deliver trusted, reusable segmentation capabilities.
- Evaluate vendor solutions and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions; manage vendor relationships and measure vendor performance.
- Manage the segmentation capability lifecycle: definition, validation, publication, versioning, refresh, change management, and retirement.
- Drive product adoption and operationalization across analytics, insights, personalization, engagement, and measurement workflows.
- Define, monitor, and report product success measures; use quantitative and qualitative insights to influence improvements and investment.
- Communicate priorities, tradeoffs, progress, and decisions to delivery teams, governance forums, and executive stakeholders.
What We’re Looking For
Required qualifications
- 3+ years of Product Management or related product experience.
- 3+ years working across software, technology, or analytics product lifecycles (discovery through delivery, adoption, and measurement).
- Experience partnering with cross-functional business, analytics, and technology teams to deliver products or enterprise capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business problems into product strategies, roadmaps, and prioritized backlogs.
- Strong prioritization, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience managing analytics products, customer intelligence capabilities, audience/segmentation solutions, or enterprise data capabilities.
- Track record of driving adoption of a product or capability across multiple business functions.
- Familiarity with customer data, behavioral analytics, personalization, or customer experience initiatives.
- Experience evaluating and managing vendor solutions and contributing to build-versus-buy decisions.
- Experience in complex, highly regulated organizations is a plus.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, mathematics, business, or a related field OR equivalent experience as determined by the Confidential Client.
Role Details
- Employment type: CONTRACTOR (Contract to Hire)
- Duration: 6+ months (Contract to Hire)
- Location: Remote (Confidential Client is based in Pittsburgh, PA)
- Work schedule: Normal M–F hours (flexible as agreed)
- Pay: $40.00–$42.85 / hour (W-2)
- Screening: Candidates may be asked to complete a short assessment relevant to the role.
Legal & Hiring Notes
- Careertakes and the Confidential Client comply with applicable U.S. federal, state, and local employment laws. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States; the Confidential Client will not sponsor work visas for this role.
- Employment is subject to background checks and other pre-employment screening where permitted by law.
- Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities are available upon request during the application process. Please notify Careertakes if you need assistance.
Why Join (Quick Sell)
- Hands-on Product role owning customer segmentation capabilities that power analytics, personalization, and measurement.
- Remote work with a contract-to-hire path and competitive hourly pay.
- Cross-functional exposure across data, analytics, product, and technology in the IT Services and IT Consulting space.
- Opportunity to shape adoption and lasting product impact across an enterprise.
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
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