Staff Product Manager

Staff Product Manager

JustAnswer is the leading AI + Human professional services platform, on a mission to revolutionize how people access expert help. Since 2003, we've connected millions of customers across 196 countries with verified professionals in real timeanytime, anywhere. With a powerful combination of human expertise and cutting-edge AI, we're transforming the future of professional services. Rooted in boldness, humility, and innovation, we take a data-driven approach to solving complex problems and continuously improving through lean principles.

About the Role

As a Staff Product Manager, you will be a key driver in evolving the expert-side product experience, helping shape how millions of customers and experts connect and engage on JustAnswer. You'll partner closely with cross-functional leaders across Expert Operations, Engineering, UX, and Analytics to design and scale technology that enables experts to deliver exceptional quality and customer satisfaction. This role is pivotal in advancing how we leverage AIparticularly conversational AIwithin expert workflows. You'll play an instrumental role in defining how our experts engage with customers, ensuring a seamless experience from the start of the interaction through resolution. While the exact focus areas for 2026 will evolve, this role will anchor around the expert-facing experience, with potential touchpoints in conversation management, expert-customer matching, and quality optimization. We are seeking a product leader who combines strategic vision, operational understanding, and strong stakeholder management. You'll need to influence without authority, own outcomes end-to-end, and navigate the complexities of working with multiple stakeholder groups in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment.

What You'll Do

• Drive ownership and accountability across the full product lifecyclefrom strategy to executionfor initiatives that impact expert performance and quality outcomes.
• Collaborate with Expert Operations, Engineering, UX, and Analytics to define and deliver technology solutions that improve expert effectiveness and customer satisfaction.
• Lead the ideation, technical development, and launch of tools, interfaces, and AI-driven workflows supporting experts in their day-to-day interactions with customers.
• Integrate voice of the customer and voice of the expert insights into decision-making, using qualitative and quantitative inputs to define priorities.
• Champion the use of AI and machine learning within product development and expert operationsfocusing on conversational AI and applied AI for analytics and workflow optimization.
• Operate with a "business owner" mindset, understanding the downstream operational and business implications of product decisions.
• Foster collaboration across stakeholder groups, navigating complex dynamics with tact, clarity, and influence.
• Balance strategy and execution, crafting actionable roadmaps while adapting to changing priorities and information.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of product management experience, preferably in consumer internet, marketplace, or SaaS environments creating product strategy and managing roadmap.
• Proven record of end-to-end ownership, with the ability to take initiative, manage ambiguity, and drive measurable business outcomes.
• Experience in operations-heavy or cross-functional environments; prior exposure to Expert Operations or similar business models strongly preferred.
• Strong voice of customer orientationproven ability to uncover user pain points and translate insights into impactful solutions.
• Experience applying AI and ML technologies, particularly conversational AI, to enhance product and operational outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build trust across technical and non-technical teams.
• Strategic and analytical thinker who can also operate tactically to execute plans and deliver results.
• Experience in balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution, including comfort working in dynamic and evolving environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of operating at senior levels within the organization.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree a plus.
• Prior startup or marketplace experience strongly preferred.

Preferred Backgrounds

While we welcome diverse experiences, candidates with backgrounds from marketplace, e-commerce, or expert services platforms (e.g., Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor, Amazon, or Wayfair) will find their experience especially transferable. Candidates from structured corporate environments (e.g., Google, Microsoft) who thrive in agile, fast-paced contexts are also encouraged to apply.

Remote From These States

California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Pay Transparency

JustAnswer will provide pay transparency information upon application to those in qualifying jurisdictions.

Why Join Our Team

At JustAnswer, we blend the best of AI and human expertise to make a real impact. Our mission-driven culture values bold ideas, continuous learning, and global collaboration. We offer a flexible, remote-first environment with equitable rewards, career growth opportunities, and a supportive community where your contributions truly matter. Join us and be part of something bigger, helping people, one answer at a time.

Our JustAnswer Promise

We strive together to make the world a better place, one answer at a time. JustAnswer's mission is to help people. We do this by connecting our members with verified Experts to help answer life's questions and solve problems. It's not every day in your life that you get to be a part of a simple yet powerful mission. We pride ourselves in doing things the JA Way. Data driven: Data decides, not egos Courageous: We take risks and challenge the status quo Innovative: We're constantly learning, creating, and adapting Lean: We focus on customers, using lean testing to learn how to serve them best Humble: Past success is not a guarantee of future success If these things matter to you, come join the team here at JustAnswer!

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where professional services are readily available to all. If you have curiosity, passion, and a collaborative spirit, come work with us. JustAnswer is committed to an inclusive workplace. JustAnswer is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.