Sr. Product Manager, Deal Sourcing
$165k - $200k USD
At PitchBook, a Morningstar company, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company.
Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.
If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you.
About the Role:
As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.
We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other’s words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth, and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!
Are you an exceptional Senior Product Manager with an entrepreneurial spirit, ready to build a new business line from the ground up? We’re seeking a visionary, hands-on leader to drive product strategy, vision, and execution for a new deal sourcing product. This highly visible role will work on an initiative that is a key part of PitchBook's growth strategy. You will be responsible for defining the unmet needs of Private Equity and Venture Capital professionals and delivering a solution that transforms how they identify and qualify their next investment opportunity. This role demands comfort with ambiguity, a strong bias for action, and the ability to seamlessly bridge deep customer empathy with technical execution. Success requires deep collaboration with executive leadership, design, engineering, and sales to find product-market fit and scale a game-changing new product.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Drive user discovery and product market fit: Rapidly identify, validate, and test high-impact workflows through extensive user research, customer interviews, data analysis, and iterative prototyping
- Strategy and roadmap execution: Develop and maintain a clear, compelling product strategy and roadmap, translating business goals and validated customer needs into a prioritized backlog for the engineering team
- Cross-functional leadership: Serve as the core decision-maker and leader for a dedicated engineering and design team, guiding them through the entire product development lifecycle from ideation and alpha to launch and scale
- Data and integration expertise: Partner closely with domain and data product teams to define the critical data integrations and unique data models necessary to power a world-class deal sourcing application
- Business impact measurement: Define and track key performance indicators and business metrics to continuously measure product success, iterate on features, and report on growth and adoption to executive leadership
- Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors
- Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested
Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 5+ years of progressive product management experience, with a proven track record of successfully launching new products or major initiatives, ideally a 0 to 1 product
- Genuine interest and curiosity for the Private Equity, Venture Capital, and M&A ecosystem. Including the challenges of deal sourcing, screening, or origination; Preference for measurable experience within these areas
- Comfort with Ambiguity: Proven ability to lead user discovery and shape highly ambiguous problem spaces into focused, executable product scopes
- Bias for Action and Experimentation: Demonstrated experience using A/B testing, rapid prototyping, and other quantitative/qualitative methods to drive product iterations toward PMF
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating effectively with executive leadership, engineering, design, sales, and marketing teams
- Strong technical acumen, capable of discussing architecture, data models, and technical trade-offs with engineering counterparts
- Experience with enterprise user personas and navigating the complexities of B2B product discovery and sales cycles preferred
- Strong technical familiarity with data-intensive applications, API design, and complex search/filtering capabilities preferred
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:
Physical Health
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Additional medical wellness incentives
- STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance
Emotional Health
- Paid sabbatical program after four years
- Paid family and paternity leave
- Annual educational stipend
- Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
- CFA exam stipend
- Robust training programs on industry and soft skills
- Employee assistance program
- Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days
Social Health
- Matching gifts program
- Employee resource groups
- Subsidized emergency childcare
- Dependent Care FSA
- Company-wide events
- Employee referral bonus program
- Quarterly team building events
Financial Health
- 401k match
- Shared ownership employee stock program
- Monthly transportation stipend
*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.
Compensation
- Annual base salary: $165,000-$200,000
- Target annual bonus percentage: 10%
Working Conditions:
At the heart of our company is a belief in the power of in-person collaboration. Being together in the office fuels our creativity, strengthens our connections, and drives the innovation that sets us apart. Our culture is built on spontaneous moments—those hallway conversations, whiteboard brainstorms, and shared celebrations in each of our global offices—that simply can’t be replicated remotely. This role is expected to be in the office 5 days a week.
The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.
We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.
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