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Product Manager
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- Remote from
- Canada
- Salary
- CAD 164,100–212,300 / yr
- Department
- Product & Operations
- Employment
- Full Time
- Experience
- Senior
- Published
- Apply before
- 28 Nov 2026
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- 31
- Application actions
- 2
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The role, at a glance.
Thumbtack is hiring an entrepreneurial Product Manager to own high-impact consumer marketplace experiences for homeowners and home-service professionals. The role combines 0-to-1 product development, product-market-fit discovery, and iteration of established experiences to improve user lifetime value. This person will lead initiatives from strategy and research through prioritization, resourcing, delivery, measurement, and potential sunset decisions. Success requires strong consumer product judgment, analytical business thinking, and close collaboration with engineering, design, marketing, data, and applied science teams.
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Sample interview questions
I began by defining the target user problem and its urgency through qualitative research and behavioral data. I launched a focused MVP with explicit activation and retention hypotheses, reviewed results quickly, and iterated on the highest-impact friction points until the experience showed repeatable user value.
I would segment both sides of the marketplace, identify the moments that most influence successful project completion and repeat usage, and size each opportunity using user impact, business value, confidence, and delivery effort. I would prioritize initiatives that improve marketplace trust, match quality, conversion, or retention while monitoring effects on both customer groups.
I structured the ambiguity into a clear customer problem, target segment, assumptions, and measurable business case. I used research and lightweight prototypes to reduce uncertainty, aligned stakeholders on success criteria and trade-offs, and then secured the resources needed for staged execution.
I establish leading and lagging success metrics before launch, along with review checkpoints and decision thresholds. If evidence shows the initiative is unlikely to meet its user or business goals after reasonable iteration, I document the learning, communicate the decision clearly, and redirect capacity to higher-potential work.
I evaluate AI opportunities against a real user need rather than adding AI for novelty. I consider output quality, reliability, privacy, user trust, operational risk, and measurable value, then validate the experience through controlled testing and clear human fallback paths where appropriate.
About this role.
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 Management Team
Our team is small but mighty, partnering closely with Engineering, Design, and Analytics to craft a two-sided marketplace that successfully delivers business to our pros while helping millions of customers complete their home projects each year. We have cultivated an environment defined by radical ownership and a strong bias for action, empowering you to move fast, define your own strategy, and drive outcomes quickly. We are outcome-obsessed and strive to spend our time on high-leverage product thinking rather than bureaucracy, minimizing administrative overhead to focus on what truly moves the needle for our users.
About the role
We’re looking for an entrepreneurial Product Manager who is driven by autonomy and fueled by ownership. You will be at the helm of innovation and execution, shaping industry-disrupting user experiences that simplify how millions of people confidently care for their homes and how home service professionals grow their business. This role is about defining product vision, challenging the status quo, and driving outcomes that leave a lasting impact on our customers, local service professionals, and the entire home services industry.
In this role, you’ll drive user lifetime value by creating product experiences that help homeowners and home service professionals accomplish their goals with ease and confidence. You’ll build new 0-to-1 experiences and find product-market fit, while pushing our existing experiences to the next frontier.
What you’ll do
Lead a significant portion of our product experience and be accountable for business outcomes.
Conduct user research and lightweight tests to scope and prioritize product initiatives.
Transform a vague, ambitious idea into a compelling business and product case, secure resources, and lead execution with clear success criteria.
Champion deep learnings and insights as a core metric, valuing them alongside traditional metrics to fuel smarter, more innovative product decisions.
Partner with marketing, engineers, designers, data and applied scientists to ideate, prioritize and deliver great solutions for our customers and professionals.
Coordinate within your team and among teams at Thumbtack to ensure understanding of and alignment around projects.
Drive a high-impact initiative from seed to scale, ensuring sustained focus by thoughtfully sunsetting or culling initiatives that do not meet success criteria.
In order to be successful, you must bring
5+ years of product management experience with a proven track record of launching impactful consumer web or mobile products that users love.
Excellent user-centric thinking with strong user experience and product sense, allowing you to empathize with users and craft excellent experiences.
Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills combined with strong business acumen.
Outstanding teamwork and collaboration skills, capable of considering multiple perspectives and driving cross-functional alignment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a talent for articulating complex customer problems precisely.
Comfort with and strong discerning judgment of AI.
Expected salary ranges
For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia, the expected salary range for the role is currently $164,100.00 – $212,300.00.
Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.
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: recruitingops@thumbtack.com.
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