Product Manager

About Geocaching HQ

We are the global headquarters for the game of geocaching. Our mission is to inspire outdoor adventure, exploration, and community. Our products enable a worldwide community of geocachers to make every location an adventure and everyone an explorer.

At Geocaching HQ, we strive to be the best place our employees have ever worked. We foster a workplace rooted in compassion and candor, and we invite you to join us!

Position Overview

As a Product Manager, you’ll contribute to Geocaching’s growth by shaping features that improve user experience, engagement, and retention across both web and mobile platforms. You’ll translate company goals into actionable product work and help deliver meaningful value to our company, and the global community we serve.

You’re hands-on and detail-oriented, skilled at working with cross-functional partners to scope, prioritize, and launch features. You’re comfortable gathering insights from data and user feedback, facilitating collaboration between teams, and helping keep projects aligned with broader business objectives. You bring strong product practices and a user-first mindset to everything you do.

Responsibilities and duties

• Lead product initiatives that directly impact business KPIs like engagement, retention, and revenue.
• Translate user insights into roadmap priorities and MVPs that support company goals.
• Own opportunity spaces, features, experiments, and improvements of our websites and mobile apps.
• Contribute to roadmaps, lead cross-functional teams, and ship features that matter.
• Use data to inform strategy, track results, and iterate.
• Balance geocaching/community experience with sustainable business growth.
• Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills and experience

• 3+ years of experience in product management for digital products, ideally in B2C environments.
• Proven ability to prioritize and deliver outcomes that impact business goals.
• Strong communicator and collaborator with an ability to align teams with purpose across disciplines and stakeholders.
• Experience using product delivery tools like JIRA, Miro, Confluence, PowerBI, GA4, and research tools such as Hotjar or Dovetail
• Passion for building meaningful, user-centered products.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities in a small, resourceful team.
• Bonus: Experience geocaching and interest in outdoor recreation, gaming, or AI technologies.

Company competencies

• Accountability: Actively seeing commitments through to completion; taking responsibility for actions, welcoming feedback, and effectively explaining decisions.
• Adaptability: Demonstrating openness, flexibility, and agility in response to changing environments or circumstances.
• Collaboration: Identifying appropriate contributors from across and within teams; working with them in a way that leads to effective results and positive relationships.
• Problem Solving: Proactively recognizing challenges, analyzing potential responses, and taking initiative that leads to a thoughtful result.
• Results-Oriented: Outcomes matter; taking responsibility for the timing and results of work and projects.
• Self-Awareness: Continually improving upon personal strengths and areas for growth. Recognizing and managing our own emotions; recognizing and responding well to the emotions of others.

Behaviors

• Exemplify our company values: authenticity, effectiveness, passion, inclusivity
• Demonstrate collaborative communication and negotiation skills
• High level of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills
• Support transparency, consensus or alignment with peers and maintain focus on the end in mind
• Ability to discern appropriate judgment and discretion 
• Possess a growth mindset with a desire to learn, develop, and share skills
• Graciously give and receive feedback  
• Effectively plan, organize, and prioritize workload
• Proactive and self-accountable

Physical Demands and Work Environment   

This job description should not be construed to imply that these requirements are the only duties, responsibilities, and qualification for this job. Incumbents may be required to follow any additional related instructions, acquire related job skills and perform other related work as required.

Compensation and benefits

We carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your experience and internal equity, when determining individual pay. The range for this role is $92,800 to $144,770, with an expected starting range of $92,800 to $118,785. This position is eligible for annual salary increases and bonus (dependent on company & individual performance). 

In addition to a collaborative workforce and a variety of office perks, below are some of our current benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package: medical, dental, vision insurance. We cover the health insurance premiums for you and your eligible dependents.
• Employer-paid premiums for Short and long-term disability, basic life and AD&D. 
• Options to enroll in Flexible Spending Account (health and dependent care) and additional voluntary life insurance.
• 401k retirement plan: traditional and/or Roth, plus a 4% employer match with immediate vesting.
• Healthy work/life balance: generous PTO (120 hour accrual for each of the first two years of full-time employment, with increased accruals after that) and 10 paid holidays + 2 bonus days, monthly company social events, unlimited access to our Employee Assistance Program, budget for team outings, and more.
• Free Geocaching Premium Membership (plus one for a buddy!) to cache to your heart's content!
• One month paid Sabbatical every 7 years.
• Free unlimited ski/snowboard lift tickets or reimbursement up to $300/year towards outdoor activities.
• On-site gear closet so you can enjoy the great outdoors.
• Employer paid commute options with ORCA cards and on-site parking.
• Professional development programs and budget tailored to your learning & growth -- not in the cookie-cutter "one size fits all" approach.
• Employer charitable donation matching program, adoption benefits, and reimbursement for child/pet/elderly parent caretaker needs.
• Catered in-office lunches Monday-Thursday
• Two hours of paid geocaching per month.

Statement of inclusivity

Geocaching HQ works actively and intentionally to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company and worldwide community. We encourage everyone to apply and welcome applicants who are historically underrepresented in the technology and outdoor industries.