Hybrid Junior Product Manager

Who We Are.

Newfold Digital is a leading web technology company serving millions of customers globally. Our customers know us through our robust portfolio of brands. We have some of the industry's most prominent and storied go-to-market brands, including Bluehost, HostGator, Domain.com, Yoast, MarkMonitor, and Web.com. We help customers of all sizes build a digital presence that delivers results. With our extensive product offerings and personalized support, we take pride in collaborating with our customers to serve their online presence needs. The strength of our company lives in the intersection of our people, our customers, and our brands.

In August 2021, Yoast joined the company Newfold Digital. Joining forces with this leading web-presence solutions provider will help us reach even more people to help them improve their SEO. It enables us to expand on our work across many platforms and bring more of our SEO ideas into practice. A big change, but a lot will also remain the same: our team, our brand, our headquarters in Wijchen, and Yoast SEO. And, of course, our mission: SEO for everyone.

As a (Junior) Product Owner focused on our Platform, you will join a fast-growing area that is at the center of making our customers successful. We are helping everyday entrepreneurs to gain visibility with their online presence and grow their business through cutting-edge capabilities in Search Engine Optimization. Our success in helping micro-businesses as well as web professionals like agencies grow is powered by our website, public knowledge base, seamless customer experience, and modern customer dashboard called MyYoast.

What you’ll do & how you’ll make your mark.

• Build a long-term roadmap and platform strategy for Yoast to help our existing customers grow and new customers to join our premium product portfolio.
• Lead a dedicated team of engineers and designers to help our customers get the most out of Yoast and our services and see how their investment in Yoast is driving improved business outcomes.
• Drive the feature development of our MyYoast platform and the overall website to bring both closer to our dedicated products.
• Provide design feedback to our UX/UI designers to drive, enable and implement user-centered design to our platforms.
• Identify growth opportunities by analyzing new target groups like agencies or enterprises.
• Use market data, product results, and customer feedback (internal and external) to identify opportunities to drive product outcomes, such as increased customer acquisition.
• Influence cross-functional collaborators at various levels, from executives to individual contributors.
• Apply methods to develop and test hypotheses, using quantitative and qualitative data to measure product outcomes.
• Join a team that is committed to helping people from a diverse set of backgrounds to build the future they want for themselves and their community.
  
  
  

Who you are & what you’ll need to succeed.

• 1 - 2 years of digital product management experience.
• 1 - 2 years experience working with digital or SaaS products.
  
  
  

Key Competencies

• Passionate about digital products and trends
• Excited about trying out new tools and technologies
• Delivering business results
• Team working
• Self-motivation
• Attention to detail.
• Decision making
• Bringing innovation to problem-solving
• Excellent communication
  
  
  

Desired Competencies

• Familiarity with GitHub, WordPress, SEO tools and/or Yoast SEO
• Familiarity with standard methodologies to uncover deep customer insights
• Previous work with small businesses, agencies or enterprises
• Passion for leveraging emerging technologies like generative AI to solve customer problems in new ways.
• Passion for data, OKR and research.
  
  
  

Why you’ll love us.

• Work-life balance. Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well.
• We celebrate one another’s differences.  We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees.  We have 20 + affinity groups where you can network and connect with Newfolders globally.
• We care about you. Yoast provides learning and development opportunities; 10% of your annual salary is used towards a training budget and a personal trainer. If you reside in the Netherlands, the Yoast Car is available to all employees, events throughout the year, a pension scheme where we pay 100% of the pension premium, Thursday afternoon drinks, and much more!
• Where can we take you? We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with Yoast #teamnewfold!
  
  
  

This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.