Product Specialist

Location

Chicago, IL (based in Chicago, IL office)

Join Technomic’s fast-paced Products team! Our passion is Ignite, the premiere SaaS platform for food service insights, dynamically answering questions like “which pizza toppings are trending?” and “why do Millennia ls love cold brew so much?” We work side-by-side with our developers to create high-quality, intuitive tools for the largest restaurant chains and food manufacturers. You’ll work closely with users, product owners, and designers to groom our product roadmaps.

As the ultimate product expert, you’ll prioritize and break requirements down into bite‑sized chunks. When your new features go live, you’ll feel the satisfaction of making a real difference for our clients.

• Develop deep expertise in the product and be passionate about creating the absolute best customer experience
• Gather and develop business requirements into epic and stories to build products that delight users
• Proactively engage stakeholders in design, priority setting, and implementation of the project
• Build coalitions among the various stakeholders to move projects forward
• Manage product development from the ideation phase to client launches
• Lead the communication plan for product launches
• Ensure new features meet requirements and identifies current or potential problems
• Track usage and provide solutions on how to increase it ongoing
• Analyzes problems encountered in testing and works with the team to determine the corrective changes
• Offers feedback on usability for a wide range of products
• Reviews user interfaces for consistency and functionality
• Provide solutions to make data imports and processes more efficient
• Work with Product Owners, Designers, and Software Developers in an Agile team environment

• Bachelor’s degree minimum
• 1 year of product-related experience in a software development environment
• Strong critical thinking and analytical problem‑solving skills
• Strong sense of ownership
• Actively seeks challenging assignments, is genuinely excited by a challenge
• Communication in an organized and knowledgeable manner
• Manages time working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work on a team and individually
• Strong work ethic
• Self‑motivated
• Strong proficiency in Excel and Power Point

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in‑person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague groups and networks promoting a positive, supportive, and collaborative work environment
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on‑demand access to thousands of courses on Linked In Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 15 days PTO rising to 20 after three years and 25 after six years, plus 10 national holidays, a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

The salary range for this role is $48K-60K/YR, based on experience.

This posting will automatically expire on Dec 15, 2025.

If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and, or in the advertised position, please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence. At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed.

As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all that are protected by law.