Product Manager

Sago Mini is an award-winning company devoted to play. With three subscription services and over 10 million monthly active users, Sago Mini creates apps that seed imagination, grow wonder, and bring thoughtful design to life for preschoolers and parents worldwide. Proudly Canadian, Sago Mini is a subsidiary of Spin Master, a leading global children’s entertainment company. Along with sister studios Toca Boca and Originator, Sago Mini is part of the Piknik bundle – a collection of the world’s best apps for kids in one subscription.

About the Role

Product Manager roles can vary greatly depending on the context, so what does being a Product Manager (PM) at Lylli entail? Our PM is dedicated to uncovering the best ways to showcase our incredible content, ensuring it delivers maximum value to kids and parents using our app, while also inspiring authors through our studio tools.

Lylli is an innovative app that brings thousands of children’s books to life by creating a captivating experience that promotes children’s cognitive development, establishes reading habits, and invites them into a life as readers.

This involves a wide range of responsibilities, including conducting research, defining our value proposition, planning roadmaps, optimizing onboarding and navigation, and much more. It’s a role that demands a diverse skill set, but at its core it’s rooted in business acumen and a passion for helping our products grow and reach new audiences.

Product Management is a cornerstone of our success and we're excited to be expanding our team with a Product Manager!

You'll thrive in this role if you...

• Have an entrepreneurial mindset and love to apply your business skills to help products grow and connect with their audience.
• Come from a business, technical, or design background or have a strong interest in all three.
• Possess a solid understanding of the fundamentals of product management and have natural leadership skills.
• Can bring together qualitative as well as quantitative insight to make well-reasoned decisions.
• Thrive in an agile product development environment and lean toward action
• Enjoy working in a team and leading them through tough challenges.
• Have level-headed problem solving abilities, a lack of ego, and a ‘hands-on’ approach to getting things done.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the product strategy and serve as the product’s biggest advocate to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Own the product roadmap; constantly prioritize re-prioritize features against company goals.
• Oversee the implementation of new features.
• Identify and assess growth opportunities within the products.
• Set up experiments to continually improve KPIs.
• Have a deep love for uncovering customer needs and market trends.
• Manage stakeholders across teams to work toward a single vision.

Qualifications and Skills

• 2+ years of product management or related experience, preferably in SAAS development.
• 5+ years professional experience working in software or game development.
• Strong data analysis skills.

The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Toronto is $100,000 to $120,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.
 

About the Process

• You’ll get an email response confirming we’ve received your application, and we’ll let you know within a few weeks if we’d like to schedule a follow-up.
• If you’re moving ahead, we’ll book a call to learn more about your experience.
• If that goes well, we’ll send you a short homework assignment to get a better feel for your skillset.
• If the assignment goes well, we’ll book an interview with you and the hiring team to dive deeper.
• To wrap up the process, you’ll meet with a couple more members of our team for a brief chat prior to a decision being made.
   

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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Based in Toronto, Sago Sago Toys is a subsidiary of Spin Master Limited a leading global children’s entertainment company that creates, designs and manufactures a diversified portfolio of innovative toys, games, products and entertainment properties. We hire humble and collaborative people who care about doing great work. Sago Mini is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company.