Associate Product Manager
name.com
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 2 years · Bachelor's degree
- Must know
- Product management
- Nice to have
- Agile
- Work
- On-site in Denver
- Pay
- $90K–$116K a year
- Skill demand
- Product management71%Agile30%of 99 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Nov 4, 2026 · still open
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About the Role
The Associate Product Manager is an entry-level role focused on learning core product management skills while building foundational technical literacy. You will support execution of the product roadmap by delivering clearly scoped features and improvements, working closely with more senior Product Managers, Design, and Engineering. Technical fluency is a core part of this role from day one, including comfort using modern AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Gemini to research, draft, prototype, and reason about systems and requirements more effectively. This role reports to the Manager, Product Engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Support execution of the product roadmap by delivering clearly scoped features and improvements.
- Write detailed requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with guidance from more senior PMs.
- Partner with Design and Engineering during discovery and delivery to clarify scope, tradeoffs, and dependencies.
- Participate in user research, usability testing, and feedback collection to build customer understanding.
- Support tracking of key product metrics for your product area, helping surface whether they moved post-launch to inform prioritization.
- Assist with product launches, including documentation, coordination, and post-launch follow-ups.
- Build foundational technical fluency and use available tools, including AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, and Gemini, to better understand systems, requirements, and user workflows.
- Use AI tools to accelerate everyday PM work, such as drafting requirements, summarizing research, or quickly exploring a technical question before looping in Engineering.
- Support PostHog experiments for your product area, in partnership with more senior PMs and Engineering, from setup through reporting results.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support successful development and launches.
- Consistently model name.com and Identity Digital values in all interactions and decisions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, design, business administration, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrates baseline comfort discussing technical concepts at a high level.
- Hands-on comfort with modern AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini) for research, drafting, and exploring technical questions, with genuine interest in getting better at using them.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Curiosity about user problems and how systems work.
- Ability to break down problems into manageable pieces.
- Basic understanding of product metrics and prioritization frameworks.
- Openness to feedback and eagerness to learn.
- Self-starter, highly organized, and able to work well with individuals at all levels and across functions.
- Ability to meet deadlines and balance multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies is a plus.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Ability to work across time zones as part of a global organization as needed.
- Reliable transportation to the workplace.
Qualifications
- 0–2 years of product management experience, or adjacent experience in engineering, design, QA, or support.
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
Salary Range
- U.S. base salary range: $90,000 - $116,000.
- Eligibility for discretionary and/or non-discretionary bonuses and long-term incentive plan.
Benefits
- Generously subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Company contributions to a Health Savings Account.
- Company-paid life and disability insurance.
- Optional employee-paid supplemental life, accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, and accident insurance.
- 401(k) plan with up to a 5% match.
- 15 days of paid vacation yearly, increasing to 20 days after one year.
- 5 days of paid sick leave.
- 13 paid holidays.
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents, 12 weeks for others.
- Opportunity for tuition reimbursement for qualifying expenses.