Product Manager - Develop the Largest Online Workspace

Product Manager - Develop the Largest Online Workspace




As a Product Manager for Elance, Inc. based in Mountain View, CA, you will create awesome web tools that empower people and make users smile. We help businesses hire online professionals and collaborate with them to get projects completed in real time. While Elance was used to complete over 50,000 projects last year, the opportunity is just getting off the ground. Imagine developing the world's largest online workspace, where small and medium businesses find the experts they need, and where millions of projects - including design, marketing, programming, research, web development, and writing - are awarded and completed each year. If you are passionate about user experience and have the talent to become a leading authority in product design, this may be the opportunity you have been looking for. Become a part of Elance's inspired team and help create an amazing internet solution that connects talented people in a meaningful, hugely productive way.


Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Elance is led by a team of passionate and experienced executives from leading e-commerce and professional services businesses. Elance's Board of Directors is comprised of world-class business leaders, including Raymond J. Lane, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins and former president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corporation. Elance's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, NEA, Pequot Capital Management, and Ram Shriram.


In this role, you will capitalize on your Internet product design success in search, social networking, e-commerce or online collaboration, to influence direction and create our next generation platform and web tools Excellent leadership and communication skills will allow you to build strong partnerships with category management and product development to test your ideas and bring them to life. You will interact with colleagues and customers to define entirely new products as well as enhancements to existing functionality. You will lead usability testing sessions to gain feedback on current and future products, and also analyze customer profiles and assess competitive offerings. Your product management, problem solving, project management and analytical skills will enable you to develop compelling PRDs and to work with engineering to manage product development and release cycles. Elance is a place where your passion and expertise for designing Internet products will make a real and measurable impact.


All applications for this position are accepted via our online interview system, managed by Accolo. You can begin the interview process or REFER someone you know by going to this link: http://jobs.accolo.com/6111


Once you have completed the interview, your information will be sent directly to the hiring manager for decisions on the next steps. Regardless of the outcome, Elance or Accolo will keep you updated as to your status by e-mail or phone.


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