Product Manager

VARITE is looking for qualified Product Manager 3 in San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

An American computer software company that offers a wide range of programs from web design tools, photo manipulation and vector creation, through video/audio editing, mobile app development, print layout and animation software.

Established in the Year 2000, VARITE is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With 850+ global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence to its customers by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services.

Job Title:

Product Manager 3

Location:

San Francisco, CA, 94107 (Hybrid)

Contract Duration: 24 months with possible extension

Pay Range: $85.00/hr. to $93.20/hr. on W2

Work Authorization: US Citizen or Green Card only

• We are seeking a Product Manager/Product Owner to build and improve company's site-wide capabilities, spanning internal and external digital technologies, data, and integration platforms.
• You’ll help drive new capabilities across our platform ecosystem - including our Personalization Platform, which is increasingly powered by conversational AI and LLM-based experiences.
• You will interface regularly with internal business stakeholders, other product managers, program managers, engineering, web production, experience design teams, and 3rd-party vendors.
• This is an exciting role where you’ll drive and deliver highly valuable, visible results that significantly impact many of our customers and prospects.

• Lead the evolution of company's platform capabilities, developing them as critical infrastructure for the company's consumer and enterprise solutions
• Use data, customer and competitive insights, and industry standards to identify opportunities for new capabilities and compelling experiences - including chat and conversational AI touchpoints
• Assess new market opportunities and strategic areas of growth within our audience
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to drive a wide range of research (E2E reviews, audits, user testing, A/B testing, analytics deep dives)
• Create business cases outlining projected impact for each initiative to prioritize the roadmap
• Work with Experience Designers on customer journeys, UX flows, and page designs
• Translate requirements into feature specs/user stories with clear acceptance criteria for engineering
• Define goals, set priorities, and drive a backlog of features adapted to your markets
• Actively manage ambiguity and change within the product backlog
• Assess and report on results of initiatives vs. expected impact
• Align key partners on vision, roadmap, and prioritization of platform capabilities
• Present convincingly to executives, partners, and users/customers
• Make tough trade-off decisions to maximize impact

• 3-5+ years of product management/product owner experience, ideally spanning web/mobile platforms; experience with personalization, segmentation, or conversational/chat-based products a strong plus
• Working knowledge of GenAI/LLM-powered product patterns (chat interfaces, conversational flows, retrieval-grounded responses) - enough to scope requirements and partner effectively with engineering, even without a deep technical background
• Experience working cross-functionally with design and engineering teams - user stories, UX flows, customer journeys
• Strong day-to-day execution: backlog grooming, writing tickets, setting up test cases
• Highly analytical; relentless focus on using data (A/B testing,…