At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. All salaries ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region.
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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:
- Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
- Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company
Guild is hiring a Senior Product Manager to join our team and to advance our capabilities in exchanging data with our Learning Partners. In this role, you will work alongside Engineers, Designers, PMs and Operators to act as the owner of our merchandising data, collecting program, pricing and calendar data from Learning Partners and enabling the creation of catalog tools and member-facing catalogs.
You will design and lead product decisions, discovery and delivery, defining and monitoring performance, and making recommendations for well-informed decisions, pivots, and iterations as needed. In the near-term, you will improve our existing services to simplify and de-risk existing processes. In parallel, you will craft a vision to modernize this entire stack, from data collection to catalog generation, in order to allow us to scale our Learning Marketplace and meet Guild’s strategic goals.
As a Senior Product Manager you will:
Lead the Learning Marketplace product team that is responsible for collecting catalog and calendar data from our Learning Partners, in order to enable catalog-building tool and member-facing catalogs
To do this, we expect you to:
- Act as the product person accountable for the end to end product development lifecycle. This starts with deeply understanding the problem space and current operations, to solution definition and demand capture and ends when we successfully solve that problem in the market.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to establish a vision for Learning Partner catalog data exchange, to ensure that all investments ladder up seamlessly into the broader picture, while also solving their specific, differentiated pain points.
- Be a key advocate for Guild’s overall Learning Marketplace, internally and externally. This will involve everything from influencing how we work with and choose Learning Partners to populate the Learning Marketplace and operating the marketplace to further Guild’s strategic goals, to working directly with Learning Partners on a technical and executive level and deepening our competitive advantage via the Learning Marketplace..
You are a strong fit for this role if you are:
You are able to work with ambiguity, carve your own path, and iterate quickly.
Expected Skills and Competencies
- Obsession with building great, simple products for your users that solve complex problems
- Experience starting with scrappy operational processes and maturing into scalable products
- An unrelenting growth mindset, with a strong confidence in your ability to rapidly teach yourself and your team new things
- Situational adaptability, including thriving in ambiguity and capable of juggling multiple competing priorities
- Effective, concise storytelling and communication skills, with the ability and desire to own relationships from senior client stakeholders to internal support specialists.
- A full suite of product skills from the development of user stories and translating business requirements up to delivering clear, coherent market plans and product strategy.
- Passion about Guild’s mission, with an existing working knowledge of the education and future of work spaces
- Experience with merchandising systems and migrations between alternative merchandising options.
This role will require fairly significant in-person engagement, both with teams based in Denver and with external partners. Candidates should be willing to travel, approximately quarterly, if not based in Denver.
We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $150,000 - $195,000, as well as company stock options.
At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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What We Do
Guild’s Career Opportunity Platform™ enables forward-thinking employers to invest in their employees, unlocking life-changing opportunities for personal and professional growth through education and learning programs, career development, and one-on-one coaching. Guild partners with the nation’s largest employers — including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, Providence Health, and The Walt Disney Company — to create cultures of opportunity that will help them attract and retain top talent, and build the workforce of the future. Guild offers a marketplace of curated education and learning programs designed for what working adults need to succeed in their programs. Layered onto that is support, guidance, and resources at every step to help ensure the new skills employees are building translate into career pathways that are in demand at their companies — all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Why Work With Us
As a certified B-corp with a double-bottom line business model that does well by doing good, we're looking for people who want to help us expand economic opportunity through education. You’ll join a driven and collaborative team, be challenged every day and go home knowing you’re helping to make a difference in the lives of working adults.