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Join Thumbtack, a transformative platform that empowers homeowners and accelerates local businesses, and contribute to innovative initiatives as a Product Specialist.
Overview
Salary
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Location
Remote, Philippines
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary
Thumbtack is a revolutionary platform that leverages AI and a unique hiring experience to empower millions of homeowners and a thriving community of over 300,000 local businesses. As the go-to solution for home maintenance and improvements across the U.S., we strive to deliver top-tier, user-focused solutions that inspire trust and encourage growth.
Role Summary
- Steward product quality by efficiently triaging bugs and analyzing user feedback for product improvement.
- Proactively engage in addressing issues, delivering exceptional user experience.
- Stay up-to-date with product updates and features to deal effectively with bugs and feedback.
- Provide prompt and accurate support to internal product inquiries.
- Exhibit leadership in responsibilities including feedback, metrics, data analyses, and quality audits to enhance processes and KPIs.
- Collaborate with teams to improve product performance and user experience.
- Successful delivery of special projects, trackers, reports, and analyses in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
- Assist in documentation or best practices related to product usage, bug resolution, and feedback management.
Role Requirements
- Strong research or investigative skills.
- Experience with Salesforce, Coda, and Jira or similar tools.
- Proficiency in Google Workspace including Forms, Sheets, Docs, and Slides.
- Excellent collaboration skills, detail orientation, and process-driven mindset.
- Strong problem-solving capabilities and critical thinking.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.
Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.
About the Product Operations Team
The Product Operations team acts as a bridge between our users and product teams, bringing both operational rigor and strong user advocacy to product development. As subject matter experts, we develop a deep understanding of product functionality, business workflows, and user sentiment to support the delivery of the best products and features that effectively attract, engage, and retain our users at every point in their Thumbtack journey.
About the Role
Product Specialists play a vital role in driving our product quality initiatives by efficiently triaging bugs and actively supporting the validation and analysis of user feedback to drive product improvements. By proactively addressing issues, this position ensures the delivery of a high-quality user experience, contributing to the team’s efforts in providing a reliable, user-focused solution that aligns with business objectives and continuously meets user needs.
What you’ll do
- Stay well-versed in the Thumbtack product, continuously learning about recent updates and new features, to effectively manage bugs and feedback.
- Consistently respond to product inquiries from internal customers across designated Slack and Tack (Salesforce) channels, ensuring timely and accurate support.
- Create and leverage data-driven insights to influence decisions and drive improvements within your function, actively contributing to better outcomes.
- Engage in team huddles and make a positive impact by proactively sharing valuable insights, offering solutions, and addressing potential challenges.
- Take ownership of key responsibilities, including managing big reports, feedback reports, metrics, data analyses, and quality audits. Use these insights to identify opportunities to enhance KPIs, guidelines, and processes.
- Exhibit strong critical thinking by effectively addressing bugs and feedback. Provide constructive feedback, engage with team members, and collaborate with internal customers to resolve knowledge gaps and errors.
- Successfully manage special projects, trackers, reports, and analyses, while coordinating with relevant stakeholders to ensure timely and efficient delivery.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with other teams (e.g., Eng, Enablement, Quality) to improve product performance and user experience.
- Assisting in the creation and maintenance of documentation or best practices related to product usage, bug resolution, and feedback management.
In order to be successful, you must bring
- Strong research, navigation, and investigative skills, with a keen ability to gather relevant information.
- Experience with Salesforce, Coda, and Jira or similar tools.
- Proficiency in Google Workspace, including Forms, Sheets, Docs, and Slides.
- Team player with excellent collaboration skills, capable of gaining the cooperation of colleagues to achieve common goals, particularly on time-sensitive projects.
- Detail-oriented and process-driven, with a focus on identifying inefficiencies and implementing continuous improvements to workflows.
- Clear and effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
- Strong problem-solving capabilities and critical thinking.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously.
Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.
Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: [email removed - click apply for more details].
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